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Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd

$CRDO·$38B·Semiconductors·Technology
$202.68-2.5%YTD+36.6%1Y+105.9%
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CRCRDO
$CRDOCredo Technology Group Holding Ltd
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $CRDO, 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.

Driven by hypeCooling offAI verdict · as of 2026-07-18

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

Best-in-class AI-interconnect story is 33% off the highs — insider selling and the group cool-off are the honest counterweight.

Credo Technology is a specialized AI-interconnect semiconductor company that has been one of the market's highest-quality vehicles to own the copper-and-photonics build-out inside AI datacenters. The stock has run hard for twelve months and is now digesting in the low $210s.

  • The fundamentals stay best-in-class — operating margin above 30%, gross margin near 68%, ROIC 17%, and a genuinely clean balance sheet with debt-to-equity of 0.007; those numbers are what earns the stock its 'AI connectivity leader' framing from Evercore ISI in its Outperform initiation.
  • The valuation is where the pause comes from — trailing P/E of 126 and price-to-sales above 40, so the multiple is already assuming a lot of the next few years of revenue growth; the modest 0.65% free-cash-flow yield underlines that this is not a value name, it is a growth name at a growth multiple.
  • The insider signal is worth taking seriously — a co-founder tape-selling and multiple executive sales in the $12M and $24M range on days when the stock was up 100%+ over twelve months tell you insiders view the recent level as one to trim rather than defend, which is a real weight on any bounce attempt.
  • The technical setup is a coiled digestion — bulls target $246, $338, and $420 on a Wave 5, buying aggressively into the $212-$220 zone; the honest technical caution is that losing the correction band could take the price all the way back to a $70-$122 Wave 2 support if the group cools further.

This resumes trending when the AI-interconnect group as a whole reclaims recent structure and the next quarterly print shows continued 50%+ revenue growth against tough comps — a beat plus a firm second-half guide restarts the run; another leg down in the group or a soft photonics ramp confirms the cool-off and opens the deeper technical target.

Agrees with X sentimentThe X bull framing — best-in-class fundamentals, Evercore Outperform, aggressive dip-buying into $212-$220 — aligns with the mechanics (30% op margin, 68% GM, clean balance sheet). The technical caution about the correction band and losing $216 stops is fair. The material co-founder and executive sales at recent levels are not really addressed by the bullish sample, and that gap is what to flag.

What to watch: Next quarterly print for continued 50%+ revenue growth and a firm second-half guide; any additional Form 4 executive sales. A beat and no fresh sales restart the trend; a soft print with more selling extends the cool-off.

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X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment24 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-17

Credo Technology is being described as one of the highest-quality dip-buys in AI interconnect. The stock is down about 33% from the highs to the low-$210s despite what posters call best-in-class fundamentals (growth and margins), and Evercore ISI launched coverage at Outperform calling Credo an AI-connectivity leader. Bulls target $246-$338 and $420+ Wave 5 with a $360 minor-wave-3 checkpoint, note management-conversation SWOT work suggesting well-positioned copper and photonics exposure, and add aggressively into the $212-$220 zone. The main critical thread is a technical caution that losing the correction band could take price back to a $70-$122 wave-2 support, and one $216 stop got hit and sold for a break.

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What it does

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

Makes active electrical cables, optical retimers, and line-card ASICs for high-speed AI and cloud networking.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

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 $CRDO

Neutral — Makes active electrical cables, optical retimers, and line-card ASICs for high-speed AI and cloud networking; end markets and revenue mix have limited overlap with the hyperscaler 400G/800G AI rack networking buildout.

Top industry 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
126.6How 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
17.0%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
30.3%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
0.7%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
40.8Same 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
29.6%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
67.8%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 2026Jun 1, 2026$1.16$1.02+13.7%
Q4 2025Mar 2, 2026$1.07$0.91+17.3%
Q3 2025Dec 1, 2025$0.67$0.49+36.2%
Q2 2025Sep 3, 2025$0.52$0.36+43.9%
Next earningsWed, Sep 2·consensus EPS $1.16

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q3 FY26$407.0M+201.5%68.5%36.8%$0.86$139.7M
Q2 FY26$268.0M+272.1%67.5%29.4%$0.47$38.5M
Q1 FY26$223.1M+273.6%67.4%27.2%$0.37$51.3M
Q4 FY25$170.0M+179.7%67.2%20.4%$0.21$54.2M

Forward consensus

10-year forecast · up to 13 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$1.3B$1.3B – $1.4B$3.31$3.28 – $3.3412
FY27$2.2B$2.2B – $2.2B$5.21$4.74 – $5.687
FY27$2.4B$2.2B – $2.5B$6.10$5.77 – $6.3813
FY28$3.1B$2.9B – $3.2B$7.01$6.40 – $7.577
FY28$3.6B$3.2B – $4.2B$8.94$8.08 – $10.4212
FY29$4.0B$4.0B – $4.1B$8.81$8.59 – $9.033
FY29$4.5B$4.5B – $4.5B$10.39$9.50 – $10.955
FY30$4.8B$4.8B – $5.0B$9.80$9.65 – $10.291
FY30$5.1B$4.6B – $5.8B$10.85$9.32 – $12.782
FY31$6.0B$5.3B – $6.8B$12.50$10.73 – $14.721

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.0.9×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.52%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.-11.5%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.+24.5%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

β3.205-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 15Lam Yat TungCOO106.0K sh$23.9MSellJul 14Cheng Chi FungCTO27.5K sh$6.6MSellJul 8Daniel W. FlemingCFO7.6K sh$1.9MSellJul 8Cheng Chi FungCTO3.8K sh$981KSellJul 7Cheng Chi FungCTO27.5K sh$6.7MSellJun 30Cheng Chi FungCTO4.4K sh$1.1MSellJun 23Cheng Chi FungCTO27.5K sh$7.5MSellJun 16Cheng Chi FungCTO27.5K sh$6.8MSellJun 11Daniel W. FlemingCFO40.0K sh$10.0MSellJun 11James LaufmanChief Legal Officer, Secretary5.0K sh$1.3M
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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 changeJun 18-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

Credo Technology reported full fiscal year 2026 results (ended May 2, 2026) via press release; also disclosed an executive change (Item 5.02 details not visible in excerpt). Full results in Exhibit 99.1. Routine annual earnings disclosure for a data center connectivity company.

8-KUnregistered equity saleApr 138-K — Item 3.02: Unregistered equity sale · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

CRDO filed an 8-K Item 7.01 (Reg FD) disclosure dated 2026-04-13. Reg FD disclosures make material information simultaneously available to all investors; content may include guidance updates, strategic plans, or preliminary results.

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Recent news

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

Credo's Free Cash Flow Soars: Can the Momentum Continue?zacks.com·22h agoWhat This Billionaire Co-Founder's Credo Sale Signals With Shares Up 139%fool.com·2d agoWhat This Credo Insider's $12.6 Million Sale Means With Shares Up 121%fool.com·2d agoA Credo Executive Sold Nearly $24 Million in Stock Across Two Sales in One Dayfool.com·2d agoSteven Cress' Top 2 Stocks H2 2026seekingalpha.com·2d ago

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