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Amkor Technology, Inc.

$AMKR·$16B·Semiconductors·Technology
$62.94-0.1%YTD+53.3%1Y+190.9%
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AMAMKR
$AMKRAmkor Technology, Inc.
$62.94-0.13%1.3k posts+23%
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $AMKR, 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.

Proven numbersCooling offAI verdict · as of 2026-07-17

Catching its breath after a run — could pick back up or fade from here.

Advanced-packaging beneficiary of the AI cycle pulled back from $100 with earnings landing in 10 days.

Amkor Technology is the largest US-listed outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider — the company that takes bare silicon from foundries and turns it into finished chips, with a specific strength in advanced packaging that's now the bottleneck of the AI cycle. The stock has been the second-order AI-picks-and-shovels trade of 2026.

What the setup shows:

  • Growth has re-accelerated meaningfully: Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.68B, and the four-quarter growth stack has moved from 3% to 7% to 16% to 27% — the ramp of high-performance-compute packaging is real.
  • Margins are recovering but still thin: operating margin at 6% in Q1 with gross margin only 14% — this is a business where operating leverage on volume matters, and the FY27 consensus EPS of $2.08 requires more of it.
  • Insider action is tax-driven housekeeping: CFO Megan Faust and a few directors reclaimed shares for tax and one small $70K sale — no cluster of true distribution, consistent with a management team not calling a top.
  • The tape has cooled meaningfully: from ~$100 two weeks ago to $63 — the LG Chem semiconductor-stripper partnership news added to a narrative that was already extended, and the pullback is what the bull thread now treats as an entry.
  • Multiple is not deep-value even after the pullback: 37x trailing earnings and 30x FY27 consensus for an OSAT — priced for the AI ramp, not for a mid-cycle setback.

The forward look: the July 27 Q2 print is the referee. A beat with a raised full-year guide and specific advanced-packaging capacity commentary is what restarts the run upward toward the community's $100 mental anchor. What keeps it cooling: an in-line print with a maintenance guide, or any hyperscaler capex commentary that hints at 2027 orders being pulled forward into 2026 (which lets the multiple compress). What breaks it lower: a specific TSMC-partnership dispute or a China-restrictions escalation on advanced-packaging equipment.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bullish X 'perfect entry after $100' framing lines up with the setup, and the TSMC-partnership tailwind is real. Where we'd push back: the multiple has fully priced the AI-cycle ramp, so the story needs the Q2 print to actually beat rather than merely confirm.

What to watch: July 27 Q2 earnings and any raised full-year guide plus advanced-packaging capacity commentary; a hyperscaler capex slowdown or a TSMC-partnership friction headline would break the cooling into a real reset.

On the calendar: 2026-07-27 — Q2 2026 earnings

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment7 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-17

Amkor Technology is being framed as one of the most attractively-valued advanced semi packagers. Bulls emphasize AMKR is the world's largest US-headquartered advanced semiconductor packaging leader with explosive AI/HPC-driven tailwinds, that the stock is one of the best buys in the market currently, and that AMKR broke its all-time high after forming a 3-decade cup that just back-tested this month. The stock has now dropped below $65 with $60 identified as an ideal add zone. Sector context is supportive: photonics-specific test/packaging peers (AEHR +26%, ShunSin +10%, Ibiden +7.6%) all delivered strong prints. The main critical thread is from a poster who claims to avoid 'GriftKevin & gang' pump-and-dumpers who allegedly sell into AMKR/PENG rallies; this does not constitute a real fundamental bear case.

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What it does

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

Provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services, a key supply-chain link for mobile and advanced compute chips.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — structural AI capex engine unchanged: hyperscaler Blackwell allocation stays tight through 2H26 and HBM3e pricing holds as LLM context-window expansion drives 5-8x per-server memory demand uplift.

What this means for $AMKR

Partial — Provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services, a key supply-chain link for mobile and advanced compute chips; the AI capex and HBM/compute demand cycle is a secondary rather than primary near-term earnings catalyst.

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
36.9How 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
6.9%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
7.6%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
1.0%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
2.3Same 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
10.0%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
14.4%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
0.3Total 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 2026Apr 27, 2026$0.33$0.23+43.5%
Q4 2025Feb 9, 2026$0.69$0.43+60.5%
Q3 2025Oct 27, 2025$0.51$0.42+21.4%
Q2 2025Jul 28, 2025$0.22$0.16+37.5%
Next earningsMon, Jul 27·consensus EPS $0.47

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$1.7B+27.5%14.2%6.0%$0.34$-79.5M
Q4 FY25$1.9B+15.9%16.7%9.8%$0.69$212.4M
Q3 FY25$2.0B+6.7%14.3%8.0%$0.51$-77.9M
Q2 FY25$1.5B+3.4%12.0%6.1%$0.22$112.3M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 7 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$7.6B$7.6B – $7.7B$2.08$2.07 – $2.097
FY27$8.5B$8.3B – $8.6B$2.28$2.13 – $2.436
FY28$9.2B$9.1B – $9.2B$2.89$2.75 – $2.977
FY29$10.3B$10.1B – $10.6B$3.64$3.53 – $3.793

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.0.7×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.55%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.-15.2%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.+20.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 135.5M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today3.1% 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.β2.215-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 14Megan FaustCFO1.0K sh$70KSellJun 16Mark N RogersEVP & General Counsel5.0K sh$431KSellJun 12Winston J ChurchillDirector5.0K sh$391KSellJun 9Megan FaustCFO1.0K sh$70KSellMay 19Megan FaustCFO1.0K sh$65KSellMay 18Mark N RogersEVP & General Counsel5.0K sh$358KSellMay 11Gil C. TilyDirector15.0K sh$1.2MSellMay 8Rutten Guillaume Marie JeanDirector50.0K sh$3.7MSellMay 5Douglas A AlexanderDirector343 sh$26KSellMay 5Winston J ChurchillDirector7.0K sh$535K
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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-KPress release / Reg FDMay 218-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Amkor Technology, Inc. (AMKR) filed an 8-K on May 21, 2026 under Item 7.01 (Regulation FD Disclosure). Amkor is a Tempe, Arizona-based semiconductor packaging and test services company listed on Nasdaq. Reg FD disclosures typically accompany investor presentations; updates from a major OSAT company often relate to customer program wins, guidance revisions, or capacity announcements.

8-KShareholder voteMay 198-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Amkor Technology, Inc. (AMKR) filed an 8-K on May 13, 2026 disclosing annual shareholder meeting vote results (Item 5.07). Amkor is a Tempe, Arizona-based semiconductor packaging and test services company listed on Nasdaq. Annual meeting results are routine governance disclosures.

8-KMaterial agreementMay 58-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation · Item 3.02: Unregistered equity sale
AI summary

AMKR entered into a indenture (8-K Item 1.01, dated 2026-05-05). Size: approximately $1,150,000,000. Rate: 0.00%. Due 2031. Material definitive agreement — investors should review the full exhibit for covenants, conditions, and use of proceeds.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentMay 5SC 13D/A
AI summary

James J. Kim filed an amended Schedule 13D on AMKR disclosing beneficial ownership (511,645.00 shares) as of 2026-05-05. The filer's stated intent is passive investment with no plan to influence control of the company.

3/ANew insider — initial holdingsMar 163/A
SC 13D/AActivist amendmentFeb 17SC 13D/A
3New insider — initial holdingsFeb 23
8-KOfficer or director changeFeb 28-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
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Recent news

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

Amkor Technology, Inc. (AMKR) is Attracting Investor Attention: Here is What You Should Knowzacks.com·20h agoLG Chem Enters Semiconductor Stripper Market with Mass Supply to Amkorbusinesswire.com·2d agoAmkor Technology (AMKR) Stock Dips While Market Gains: Key Factszacks.com·3d agoAre Computer and Technology Stocks Lagging Amkor Technology (AMKR) This Year?zacks.com·3d agoAMKR Trades Cheaper Than Industry at 2.06X P/S: Is the Stock a Buy?zacks.com·4d ago

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