Silicon Motion Technology Corporation

SIMO

Semiconductors · Technology

Price

$264.32

-8.13 (-2.98%)

Market Cap

$8.87B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is curious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−76.0% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 35.0M (2021) → 8.4M (2025)

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and markets NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage devices. It offers controllers for computing-grade solid state drives (SSDs), which are used in PCs and other client devices; enterprise-grade SSDs used in data centers; eMMC and UFS mobile embedded storage for use in smartphones and IoT devices; flash memory cards and flash drives for use in expandable storage; and specialized SSDs that are used in

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+105.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

>+1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$263M/ year

↑ Rising (+21% vs prior year)

29.7% of revenue

2.0x the sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

4.2%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~8 months

$136M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Revenue accelerating

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation grew revenue 105% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

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

47.1%

Healthy — 47.1% gross margin

Operating Margin

15.3%

Healthy — 15.3% operating margin

ROCE

5.8%

Weak — 5.8% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+35.9%

Fast-growing sales (35.9% YoY)

EPS YoY

+624.3%

Earnings growing fast (624.3% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

-12%

Weak — only -12% of profit becomes cash

FCF Margin

-7.7%

Burning cash (-7.7%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

N/A

Data not available

Interest Cover

100.00x

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Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

13.0x

Attractive valuation — P/E 13.0

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward

-22.1

SLOWING

Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

0.64%

Small dividend — 0.64% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth

+0.0%

Dividend flat

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