Design and develop cellular semiconductor solutions for IoT applications. Offer 4G and 5G baseband solutions for encoding and decoding data. Now — the numbers.
That much dependence is a risk in itself: if this one line weakens, the whole company feels it directly.
The company closed last year at a loss: costs ran above sales. The picture changes only if spending is reined in.
An average decline of 14% a year over the last 4 years — the most striking risk in this picture. Red columns mark years that ended in a loss.
Before the clock runs out, either sales must climb sharply or new money must come in. This is the most critical line in the whole picture.
This company is not turning a profit, so the market is pricing its sales instead: 1.6× for every dollar of annual revenue.
Against companies in its own sector, it looks cheaper than 17% of them.
Analysts' average target sits 162% above today's price.
Executives buying with their own money is usually read as confidence in the company’s future.
An investor who bought at the very peak is down 98% today. The business is the same; what changed most is the price — and the expectations — the market pins on it.
Over the last 12 months, company executives reported 13 buys and 1 sell. Management buying with its own money is usually read as a good sign.
A loss of $102.8M against $27.3M in annual sales. And on top of that, sales fell from the year before.
At the current pace of spending, the cash lasts less than a year. After that, the company needs to find new money.
On our five-subject report card, SQNS sits behind the class. A low grade doesn’t mean “doomed” — it means “big claim, small proof.”
The takeaway: SQNS’s sales are going backwards, and it closed last year at a loss. The road back runs through both.
Analysts’ average target sits above today’s price, yet the valuation grade (17/100) says the stock isn’t cheap.