Photronics Inc
Photronics Inc (PLAB) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Semiconductor Equipment & Materials, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Brookfield, United States and has 1,908 employees. The company is worth $1.65B and trades at 10.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $849.29M in fiscal 2025, down 2.0% from the year before. Net income was $136.41M. The share price is 50.2% below its 52-week high of $56.00. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $13.49M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $817.27K of its stock on the open market and bought none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +108.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,118.55▲ +111.9%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $32.00 | $23.56 | $31.37 | $16.83 | $18.85 | $11.16 | $15.76 | $9.68 | $8.53 | $11.30 | $12.45 | $8.31 | $9.03 | $5.96 | $6.08 | $5.91 | $4.45 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 18.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EVCMEverCommerce Inc. | $9.41 | 62.7x | 2.3x | 0.00% | 3.89% | $1.66B |
| PDFSPdf Solutions Inc | $39.47 | 179.4x | 4.4x | 0.00% | 3.27% | $1.67B |
| EFOREverforth Inc | $41.00 | 20.3x | 0.9x | 0.00% | 4.57% | $1.68B |
| SECZSecuritize Corp. | $9.86 |
| 18.7x |
| 14.0x |
| 11.3x |
| 15.5x |
| 8.7x |
| 21.2x |
| 21.5x |
| 35.8x |
| 16.4x |
| 44.9x |
| 17.7x |
| 19.8x |
| 20.3x |
| 31.1x |
| 13.5x |
| 21.7x |
| 13.7x |
| — |
| P/S | 1.3x | 2.2x | 1.7x | 2.2x | 1.3x | 1.7x | 1.2x | 1.9x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.5x |
| P/B | 0.9x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 2.0x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 0.9x | 1.3x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.4x |
| EPS | $2.28 | $2.09 | $2.03 | $1.94 | $0.89 | $0.52 | $0.44 | $0.59 | $0.19 | $0.64 | $0.63 | $0.41 | $0.29 | $0.44 | $0.28 | $0.43 | -$0.97 |
| Profit margin | 6.19% | 16.06% | 15.07% | 14.07% | 14.41% | 8.35% | 5.55% | 5.41% | 7.86% | 2.91% | 9.56% | 8.51% | 5.71% | 4.26% | 6.19% | 3.17% | 5.62% | -11.60% |
| ROE | 5.41% | 11.62% | 11.66% | 12.87% | 14.29% | 6.73% | 4.20% | 3.87% | 5.54% | 1.76% | 6.50% | 6.90% | 4.14% | 3.07% | 5.05% | 3.18% | 5.41% | -9.32% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+112.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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