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MagnaChip Semiconductor

MX
20
Semiconductors · Technology
Price
$3.42
-0.10 (-2.84%)
Market Cap
$124.8M
Winston Score
20
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

24.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 47.7M (2021) → 36.2M (2025)

Magnachip Semiconductor is a South Korean company that designs and sells chips used in display screens and power management systems. Its main products help control how screens show images on devices like televisions, smartphones, and monitors. The company sells primarily to electronics manufacturers in Asia, especially in South Korea, China, and Taiwan.

Magnachip earns money by selling semiconductor chips directly to device makers, meaning revenue depends on how many units customers order each quarter. The company is relatively small, with a market cap around $300 million, and it competes against larger chipmakers like Samsung and other Asian semiconductor firms that have more resources and scale. Magnachip's thin gross margins and negative operating margin reflect ongoing pressure from competition and weak demand in the display market, and its ability to return to profitability depends heavily on a recovery in consumer electronics spending and its success shifting toward higher-margin power semiconductor products.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+4.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+45.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$27M/ year

Declining (-47% vs prior year)

15.2% of revenue

In line with sector average (15%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

24.9%ownership

Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Runway

5+ years

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

$95M cash & investments at current burn rate

Growth context

MagnaChip Semiconductor is growing revenue at 5% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
15.6%
Thin — 15.6% gross margin
Operating Margin
-15.5%
Losing money on operations — -15.5%
ROCE
-2.6%
Weak — -2.6% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-18.6%
Shrinking sales (-18.6% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-29.0%
Burning cash (-29.0%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.19
Conservative — low debt load (0.19)
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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