QuickLogic Corporation

QUIK

Semiconductors · Technology

Price

$13.00

-0.03 (-0.23%)

Market Cap

$230.4M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is worried

Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+40.8% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 11.5M (2021) → 16.2M (2025)

QuickLogic Corporation, a semiconductor company, develops semiconductor platforms and intellectual property solutions for smartphones, wearable, hearable, tablets, and the Internet-of-Things devices. It also provides flexible sensor processing solutions, ultra-low power display bridges, ultra-low power field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); and analytics toolkit, an end-to-end software suite that offers processes for developing pattern matching sensor algorithms using machine learning technolog

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+16.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+7.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow EPS growth

R&D Spend

$5M/ year

↓ Declining (-19% vs prior year)

38.4% of revenue

2.6x the sector average (15%)

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

Insider Activity

6.0%ownership

↓ Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$6M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

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

Growth + cash flow

QuickLogic Corporation is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 17%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

36.5%

Modest — 36.5% gross margin

Operating Margin

-41.7%

Losing money on operations — -41.7%

ROCE

-7.6%

Weak — -7.6% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY

-21.2%

Shrinking sales (-21.2% YoY)

EPS YoY

N/A

Data not available

EPS Consistency

0/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

N/A

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Data not available

FCF Margin

-35.2%

Burning cash (-35.2%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.14

Conservative — low debt load (0.14)

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

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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