Designs and manufactures clock oscillators (VCXO, TCXO, OCXO, DOCXO). Produces radio frequency, microwave, and millimeter wave filters. Now — the numbers.
This is an established company with proven profits.
Average growth of 30% a year over the last 3 years. Every year shown ended in profit.
If every debt were paid off today, $41.6M would still be left in the vault — a solid cushion for hard times.
Executives buying with their own money is usually read as confidence in the company’s future.
We compared this company with its own sector across five subjects.
A score of 50 means class average.
Clearly below the class average.
Clearly above the class average — a step short of the very top.
The price isn’t cheap next to earnings — that’s why this grade sits in the middle.
There is growth, but not at top-of-the-class tempo.
Clearly above the class average — a step short of the very top.
Business Quality: Profit power and business quality trail similar companies in the sector.
The stock trades below its recent peak — about 13% off the top. A pullback, not a collapse.
The net profit margin is 17% — that slice of every sale is the company’s cushion in hard quarters.
Over the last 4 years, sales grew about 30% a year on average.
There is $41.6M in the vault; even if every debt were paid off, $41.6M would remain.
The company’s market value is 56 times its annual profit. Even a small disappointment could hit the price hard.
Measured against its sector, the quality of the business sits below the class average. Report-card grade: 29/100.
On our five-subject report card, LGL sits behind the class. A low grade doesn’t mean “doomed” — it means “big claim, small proof.”
The takeaway: LGL does earn real profits — but on our report card it still sits behind its class. The real debate isn’t the quality of the business — it’s what that quality should cost.
The total grade weighs these five subjects against the sector — it isn’t a simple average of the five.
Not covered, because the filings we hold do not carry it: the revenue breakdown.