Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

LSCC

Semiconductors · Technology

Price

$125.23

+0.73 (+0.59%)

Market Cap

$17.16B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−2.7% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 142.1M (2022) → 138.2M (2026)

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops and sells semiconductor products in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The company offers field programmable gate arrays that consist of four product families, including the Certus-NX and ECP, Mach, iCE40, and CrossLink. It also provides video connectivity application specific standard products. In addition, the company licenses its technology portfolio through standard IP and IP core licensing, patent monetization, and IP

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

YoY Growth Rate

EPS data limited

R&D Spend

$188M/ year

↑ Rising (+18% vs prior year)

35.9% of revenue

2.4x the sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

0.9%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$134M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Heavy R&D investment

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is putting 36% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 2.4x the sector average. And they're generating enough cash to self-fund it.

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Quality

Gross Margin

62.4%

Premium pricing power — 62.4% gross margin

Operating Margin

1.5%

Thin — 1.5% operating margin

ROCE

0.3%

Weak — 0.3% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+17.4%

Fast-growing sales (17.4% YoY)

EPS YoY

-60.5%

Earnings shrinking (-60.5% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency

2/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

973%

Turns 973% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

26.5%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (26.5%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.06

Conservative — low debt load (0.06)

Interest Cover

100.00x

Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

N/A

Data not available

P/E vs Forward

N/A

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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