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Ambarella, Inc.

$AMBA·$3.8B·Semiconductors·Technology
$69.38-1.8%YTD+12.9%1Y-13.4%
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AMAMBA
$AMBAAmbarella, Inc.
$69.38-1.77%164 posts+1%
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $AMBA, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Hinges on a big eventEvent coming upAI verdict · as of 2026-08-30

A known event soon (earnings, a ruling, etc.) will likely decide the next move.

Edge-AI vision chip company reports Wednesday — Gorilla-Style guide is the reason to watch, insiders quiet, tape mid-range.

Ambarella makes vision-processing chips for edge-AI applications — automotive ADAS, security cameras, robotics, industrial vision. It's the pure-play on 'AI at the edge' rather than 'AI in the cloud,' and it reports Wednesday.

How to weigh the print setup:

  • Growth is re-accelerating: Q1 revenue grew 16.9% year-on-year to $100.4M, Q4 was +20% — automotive design-wins with premium OEMs starting to show in the top line, though margins are still -19%.
  • Valuation is stretched but explicable: 7.8x sales for a 17%-growing business with 59% gross margins is fair for edge-AI; the multiple compression on a soft print is why the setup is asymmetric.
  • The 'edge AI turning vision chipmaker into platform company' framing is the bull thesis — a re-underwriting from cyclical semi to platform multiple would reprice this several turns higher.
  • Insider signal is neutral: zero recent insider transactions.
  • Position is coiled: 46% of the 52-week range, 4.6% below the 50-day but 1% above the 200-day, on 83% of baseline volume — a de-risked binary entering the print.

Wednesday September 3 earnings decides it: a Gorilla-Networks-style guide raise (like Gorilla's +29% above consensus 2027 print) extends the run into year-end; another in-line guide with continued margin pressure sends AMBA back into the mid-$60s while investors wait for platform-multiple justification.

What to watch: Wednesday September 3 earnings — a Gorilla-style guide raise (well above consensus) extends the run; an in-line guide with continued margin pressure sends AMBA back into the mid-$60s while investors wait for platform-multiple justification.

On the calendar: 2026-09-03 — Q2 FY27 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Neutral sentiment8 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-27

Ambarella chatter is largely dominated by BingX adding 7 new perpetual futures listings (AMBA joins INTU/UDOW/SPGI/SPXL/MAGS/SOXQ) — repeated promotional posts touting new TradFi trading opportunities. On the equity side, one trader liquidated all smaller positions and exited AMBA on the open (going nearly 100% cash 'don't like what I see'). Sentiment on AMBA the underlying is neutral — descriptive-and-observational rather than a directional call; the modal stance is 'more markets, more opportunities' promotional chatter with cash-raising exit anecdotes.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Designs low-power AI vision SoCs for security cameras, automotive ADAS, and IoT devices; growing into edge AI inference.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Semiconductors sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $AMBA.

Semiconductors · Technology

Hyperscaler AI capex keeps Blackwell allocation tight and HBM3e pricing firm; NVDA's data-center backlog and AVGO's networking wins confirm the cycle is not peaking. LLM context-window expansion — the structural demand pull — extends through at least 2H26.

What this means for $AMBA

Direct beneficiary — semiconductor products are directly in the AI capex supply chain; Ambarella, Inc.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor ETF
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-45.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-12.1%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-18.8%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
2.1%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
7.8Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-11.8%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
58.8%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 28, 2026$0.11$0.10+10.9%
Q4 2025Feb 26, 2026$0.13$0.10+30.0%
Q3 2025Nov 25, 2025$0.27$0.20+32.8%
Q2 2025Aug 28, 2025$0.15$0.06+150.0%
Next earningsThu, Sep 3·consensus EPS $0.17

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY27$100.4M+16.9%58.4%-19.3%$-0.41—
Q4 FY26$100.9M+20.1%57.7%-19.5%$-0.38$14.3M
Q3 FY26$108.5M+31.2%60.3%-13.9%$-0.35$31.4M
Q2 FY26$95.5M+49.9%58.9%-23.0%$-0.47$10.1M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 9 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY27$441.6M$436.3M – $444.3M$0.79$0.75 – $0.839
FY28$498.5M$489.3M – $513.7M$1.08$0.86 – $1.239
FY29$593.3M$564.8M – $620.0M$1.46$1.41 – $1.573
FY30$740.0M$719.5M – $780.9M$2.75$2.65 – $2.951
FY31$940.0M$913.9M – $992.0M$4.35$4.19 – $4.661

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.8×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.46%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-4.6%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+1.3%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 41.9M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today3.2% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β2.125-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 9Yun-lung ChenVP, Business Dev. & Marketing6.0K sh$469KSellJul 1Chi-hong JuSenior VP, Systems & GM10.0K sh$888KSellJul 1Feng-ming WangCEO16.3K sh$1.5MSellJun 26Christopher B PaisleyDirector250 sh$16KSellJun 17Young John AlexanderCFO5.0K sh$340KSellJun 17Chan W LeeChief Operations Officer3.0K sh$200KSellJun 17Feng-ming WangCEO6.2K sh$421KSellJun 17Chi-hong JuSenior VP, Systems & GM2.0K sh$137KSellJun 12Yun-lung ChenVP, Business Development and9.9K sh$661KSellMay 26Young John AlexanderCFO400 sh$38K
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KOfficer or director changeJul 18-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

At Ambarella's (AMBA) June 26, 2026 Annual Meeting — with approximately 86.31% of outstanding shares represented — shareholders approved the amended and restated 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (expanding the share pool) and elected three Class II directors to serve until the 2029 annual meeting. The equity plan amendment details were previously disclosed in the May 15, 2026 proxy statement. This is routine annual governance; the expanded equity plan is modestly dilutive but expected at this stage of growth.

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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Ambarella: Edge AI Is Turning A Vision Chipmaker Into A Platform Companyseekingalpha.com·4d agoGorilla Sinks 11% Despite Guiding 2027 Revenue Up to 29% Above Consensus, Evolv Technologies and Ambarella Tick Up247wallst.com·7d agoThe Most Important Part of Unitree’s IPO Wasn’t the Robotinvestorplace.com·12d agoAmbarella Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Earnings Conference Call to be Held September 3, 2026globenewswire.com·20d agoTelecom Argentina S.A. announces consolidated results for the first half ("1H26") and second quarter of fiscal year 2026 ("2Q26")²gurufocus.com·25d ago

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