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Ichor Holdings, Ltd.

Rising onWhy it's trendingStrong bullish X conversationBacked by solid revenue growth
$ICHR·$2.4B·Semiconductors·Technology
$53.43-3.6%YTD+271.4%1Y+215.4%
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2026-08-21: 1 posts2026-08-22: 0 posts19-5%
Price updated 15m ago·X counts updated 9d ago
ICICHR
$ICHRIchor Holdings, Ltd.
$53.43-3.63%19 posts-5%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $ICHR, 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.

Comeback attemptWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-08-20

Trading in a tight range and building pressure — a move looks likely soon, but the direction isn't clear yet.

Semi-cap fluid-delivery subsystem supplier up 271% year-to-date on the semi-cycle turn — huge pullback from spike creates a coil.

Ichor Holdings makes fluid-delivery subsystems, precision-machined components, and weldments used in semiconductor manufacturing equipment — a Tier-1 supplier to Applied Materials, Lam Research, and other semi-cap OEMs. It's a $2.4B small-cap that has ridden the semi-cap upcycle after two brutal years of order-book contraction.

The setup that's compounding:

  • Revenue growth is finally turning positive: Q1 revenue grew 4.7% year-on-year to $256M — the first positive year-on-year quarter after two years of contraction, and the momentum in the semi-cap cycle (per UCTT/AEIS results) implies further reacceleration.
  • The Q2 print was a real beat: EPS of $0.34 beat consensus by 11% — small in absolute terms but the trajectory matters, and the FY27 consensus of $2.69 EPS implies a 100%+ EPS ramp from FY26's $1.38.
  • The tape has ridden the semi-cap rotation hard: up 271% year-to-date but the recent pullback (27% below the 50-day) reflects the volatility of catching a spike — 47% of the 52-week range on a $62.50 stock at $61 means the range is wide, and the tape is now consolidating.

Trajectory is coiling as the semi-cap rotation digests; the Nov 2 Q3 print needs another beat plus explicit AEIS/UCTT-cohort commentary on 2027 semi-cap capex to sustain the setup — a soft semi-cap order signal or a Tier-1 OEM inventory-correction disclosure breaks the setup and reverses the 271% year-to-date run fast.

Agrees with X sentimentX's read on the semi-cap earnings-beat cohort with UCTT/AEIS and the 2027/2028 estimate revisions is on the fundamentals — the semi-cap cycle is turning. The +470% since Rep. Wasserman Schultz's ~$14 buy a year ago is an interesting mechanical framing. $62.50 support is a real technical level.

What to watch: Nov 2 Q3 earnings — another beat plus explicit AEIS/UCTT-cohort commentary on 2027 semi-cap capex sustains the setup; a soft semi-cap order signal or a Tier-1 OEM inventory-correction disclosure reverses the year-to-date run fast.

On the calendar: 2026-11-02 — Q3 2026 earnings

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment40 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-11

Ichor posters cheer strong Q2 earnings-call read-through with 2027/2028 semicap estimates needing upward revisions alongside UCTT/AEIS. ICHR flagged as +470% since Rep. Debbie Schultz's ~$14 buy a year ago (contrast to her other lagging positions). $62.5 called strong support. Sentiment is decisively bullish.

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What it does

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

Designs and manufactures gas and chemical fluid delivery subsystems for semiconductor etch and deposition capital equipment.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

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 $ICHR

Direct beneficiary — semiconductor products are directly in the AI capex supply chain; Ichor Holdings, Ltd.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor ETF
+56.0%YTD
+85.1%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

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

Key ratios

P/E
-42.9How 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
-4.2%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
-3.7%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
-0.8%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
-7.5%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
9.3%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
0.1Total 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
Q2 2026Aug 3, 2026$0.34$0.31+10.7%
Q1 2026May 4, 2026$0.15$0.13+15.4%
Q4 2025Feb 9, 2026$-0.05$-0.17+70.6%
Q3 2025Nov 3, 2025$0.07$0.12-41.7%
Next earningsMon, Nov 2·consensus EPS $0.45

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$256.1M+4.7%11.6%1.1%$-0.07$-10.0M
Q4 FY25$223.6M-4.2%9.4%-6.2%$-0.46$5.9M
Q3 FY25$239.3M+13.3%4.6%-8.1%$-0.67$2.1M
Q2 FY25$240.3M+18.2%11.3%-2.0%$-0.28$-14.8M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 6 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$1.2B$1.2B – $1.2B$1.38$1.34 – $1.426
FY27$1.4B$1.4B – $1.5B$2.69$2.34 – $3.016
FY28$1.6B$1.4B – $1.7B$2.63$0.69 – $4.572
FY29$1.7B$1.7B – $1.8B$2.87$2.77 – $3.021
FY30$2.0B$2.0B – $2.1B$3.87$3.74 – $4.081

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.42%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.-31.0%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.+3.9%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 34.1M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.7% 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.β1.855-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

SellAug 19Barros Philip Ryan Sr.CEO1.3K sh$81KSellAug 18Iain MackenzieDirector9.9K sh$653KSellJun 8Greg SwytCFO6.8K sh$456KSellJun 4Barros Philip Ryan Sr.CEO13.7K sh$962KSellJun 2Laura A. BlackDirector20.0K sh$1.5MSellMay 28Greg SwytCFO19.7K sh$1.4MSellMay 19Jorge TitingerDirector4.0K sh$257KSellMay 13Marc HaugenDirector5.3K sh$404KSellMay 8Marc HaugenDirector9.9K sh$716K
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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-KMaterial agreementMay 188-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement
AI summary

Ichor Holdings, Ltd. (ICHR) entered into a sales agreement on May 18, 2026 with TD Securities (USA) LLC and other agents as sales agents, establishing a new at-the-market (ATM) equity offering program. The specific program size is not visible in the available excerpt (the concurrently filed 424B5 establishes it at $200 million). This 8-K formally discloses the material definitive agreement underlying ICHR's new ATM equity capability for ongoing capital raising.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)May 18424B5
AI summary

Ichor Holdings, Ltd. (ICHR) filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement establishing a new at-the-market (ATM) equity offering program of up to $200 million in ordinary shares, under a sales agreement with TD Securities (USA), Stifel Nicolaus, Needham & Company, and Craig-Hallum Capital Group as agents. Sales will occur at market prices through Nasdaq with agents receiving up to 3% commission; the last reported share price was $73.27 on May 15, 2026. The $200M ATM (~13.5% of market cap at prevailing price) creates ongoing dilution potential for this semiconductor fluid management company.

S-3ASRAuto-shelf registrationMay 18S-3ASR
AI summary

Ichor Holdings, Ltd. (ICHR) filed a new automatic shelf registration statement (S-3ASR) on May 18, 2026, effective immediately upon filing as a large accelerated filer, enabling registration of securities for delayed or continuous sale under Rule 415. This is the administrative prerequisite for the $200 million ATM offering program launched concurrently via 424B5 prospectus supplement and Sales Agreement 8-K, and does not itself constitute an offering.

8-KShareholder voteMay 148-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

ICHR held its Annual Meeting of stockholders around 2026-05-14 (8-K Item 5.07). Stockholders elected 8 directors to the board. Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

+ 16 other (9 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

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

Ichor Holdings: Semiconductor Equipment Recovery Supports A Buy Ratingseekingalpha.com·3d agoIchor Holdings: Why This Beaten-Down Chip Stock Has An Asymmetric Setup Screaming For Attentionseekingalpha.com·4d agoIchor Holdings: Q2 Confirmed The Margin Inflection, I Remain Strong Buyseekingalpha.com·10d agoAssenagon Asset Management S.A. Acquires New Shares in Ichor Holdings, Ltd. $ICHRdefenseworld.net·18d agoIchor Holdings Ltd (ICHR) Stock Up 4.2% but GF Value Says Overvalued -- GF Score: 63/100gurufocus.com·20d ago

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