Deswell Industries Inc
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
None of the investors we track reported a position in DSWL.
▼ -21.9% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,274.01▲ +27.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
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| Year-end price | $3.10 | $3.46 | $2.38 | $2.65 | $3.11 | $3.85 | $2.92 | $2.68 | $3.01 | $2.72 | $1.78 | $1.43 | $1.80 | $2.24 | $2.40 | $2.15 | $3.29 | |
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 5.6% a year plus a 13.1% dividend — Lynch adds the yield to the growth rate, so a payer is not priced like a company that returns nothing. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 27.4 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 7.6 across the years on record for this company itself. Answers whether it is cheap against its own past, which a whole sector trading low cannot flatter.
Cash flow growing 5.6% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.1x operating profit, less net debt. Sees the business before its financing, so debt does not distort the comparison. Banks have no EBITDA — interest is their revenue, not a cost.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTWKNetsol Technologies Inc | $4.13 | 27.5x | 1.3x | — | 11.46% | $49.05M |
| ACFNAcorn Energy Inc | $19.73 | 34.0x | 5.6x | — | 19.87% | $50.01M |
| AVXAvax One Technology Ltd | $6.32 | 0.0x | 0.4x | — | -189.99% | $46.75M |
| VHCVirnetX Holding Corp | $12.12 |
Deswell Industries, Inc. engages in the manufacturing and sale of injection-molded plastic parts and components, and electronic products assembling. The company operates in two segments, Plastic Injection Molding and Electronic Products Assembling. It produces plastic parts and components for use in the manufacture of consumer and industrial products, such as film injection, integrated injection, and insert injection. The company offers plastic components of electronic entertainment products; plastic components for power tools, accessories, and outdoor equipment; cases for flashlights, telephones, printers, and scanners; parts for industrial components, indoor control switches, and audio equipment; cases and key tops for personal organizers and remote controls; and laser key and double injection caps. In addition, the company provides parts for medical products such as apparatus for blood tests; automobile components; and plastic components of automatic robots comprising mops and vacuums. Further, it manufactures electronic products consisting of digital and analogue audio mixers, amplifiers, signal processors, audio interfaces, network audio equipment, and speaker enclosures; multi-channel receivers and amplifiers, wired and wireless audio streaming products, and headphones; printed circuit board assemblies using surface mount technology, automatic insertion, and pin-through-hole interconnection technologies; and medical products. The company operates in the United States, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Europe, Canada, and internationally. Deswell Industries, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Macau.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| P/E |
| 7.6x |
| 4.6x |
| 4.9x |
| 5.0x |
| 20.4x |
| 6.1x |
| 7.5x |
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| 9.9x |
| 7.7x |
| 30.2x |
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| 36.6x |
| P/S | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.4x | 0.6x |
| P/B | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.4x |
| EPS | $0.67 | $0.70 | $0.48 | $0.13 | $0.51 | $0.51 | -$0.08 | $0.27 | $0.39 | $0.09 | -$0.31 | -$0.17 | -$0.46 | -$0.12 | -$0.09 | -$0.50 | $0.09 |
| Dividend yield | 7.26% | 9.68% | 5.78% | 8.40% | 7.55% | 6.43% | 5.19% | 6.16% | 2.99% | — | 2.57% | 7.87% | 13.29% | 8.33% | 9.82% | 11.25% | 6.98% | 1.52% |
| Payout | 41.67% | 44.78% | 28.57% | 41.67% | 153.85% | 39.22% | 39.22% | — | 29.63% | — | 77.78% | — | — | — | — | — | — | 55.56% |
| Profit margin | 2.66% | 17.33% | 16.47% | 11.11% | 2.66% | 9.57% | 12.69% | -2.02% | 6.42% | 10.20% | 3.09% | -11.07% | -7.37% | -18.30% | -3.73% | -2.26% | -9.66% | 1.84% |
| ROE | 1.81% | 9.71% | 10.91% | 8.19% | 2.30% | 9.07% | 9.61% | -1.64% | 5.09% | 7.62% | 1.81% | -6.42% | -3.34% | -8.36% | -1.96% | -1.36% | -7.29% | 1.24% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 7.1% required return, taken from the stock’s beta. The only method anchored on what the company pays rather than what it reports.
Not the average of the seven numbers above. Four of the seven start from the same earnings per share — Graham, Lynch, sector multiples and its own history — so averaging all seven would let one input count four times and drown out the others. Instead each family produces one number, and the fair price is the average of the families that answered. A family with two working formulas contributes their average, not two votes.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
+106.9% from the average.
These are models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. Change one assumption and the number changes with it — that is a property of valuation, not a defect of this page.
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