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Kopin Corp.

$KOPN·$791M·Semiconductors·Technology
$4.48-7.1%YTD+73.6%1Y+105.5%
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2026-08-21: 25 posts2026-08-22: 14 posts147+9%
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KOKOPN
$KOPNKopin Corp.
$4.48-7.05%147 posts+9%
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $KOPN, 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 hypeWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-08-29

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

Kopin +105% t12m with MicroLED optical-interconnect thesis via Neural I/O — small defense/AI micro-cap into $6 breakout.

Kopin Corporation is a small-cap micro-display and MicroLED specialty maker — historically defense/military display applications, now pivoting into MicroLED-based optical interconnects for AI data centers via the Neural I/O partnership with Fabric.AI.

  • The Neural I/O tape is genuinely fresh: Kopin partnered with Fabric.AI on the Neural I/O program targeting 1.6Tbps data throughput via MicroLED optical interconnects, launched a joint steering committee (August 18), and expanded the program with new NDAs across the AI interconnect ecosystem — a real specialty-AI-infrastructure play distinct from the defense-display heritage.
  • The sell-side setup is friendly: JonesTrading PT $12, Canaccord raised PT to $6.50, GAAP profitability targeted for Q4, plus defense/drone/autonomy diversification (THEON, UMAC, ONDS partnerships) — the story has multiple product legs beyond the singular optical-interconnect bet.
  • The underlying P&L is small but improving: Q1 revenue was $10.55M flat YoY at a 47% gross margin, Q2 EPS beat at $0.0044 vs $-0.0125 consensus, and the sell side models FY revenue climbing from ~$57M this year to ~$75M in 2027 and ~$94M in 2028 — the multiple only works on the Neural I/O and defense-optical vectors landing.

The setup is a hot-momentum micro-cap coiled around a specific MicroLED-optical-interconnect thesis — the November 11 Q3 print is the referee, and the market needs continued revenue growth plus updated Neural I/O contract or partnership milestones. A clean beat with a named Neural I/O customer contract breaks the coil up toward $6.50-12; another quarter of guide-in-line with no Neural I/O commercial announcement cools the tape back to $3.50.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bullish X read on KOPN as a MicroLED optical-interconnect play through Neural I/O (partnership with Fabric.AI) targeting 1.6Tbps data throughput, JonesTrading PT $12, Canaccord PT raise to $6.50, GAAP profitability targeted Q4, and defense/drone/autonomy diversification (THEON, UMAC, ONDS) is factually consistent with the announcements. The rising institutional ownership tell adds to the constructive frame.

What to watch: The November 11 Q3 earnings — need continued revenue growth, updated Neural I/O contract or partnership milestones, and a named Neural I/O customer. Another quarter of guide-in-line with no Neural I/O commercial announcement cools the tape back to $3.50; a clean beat with a named Neural I/O contract breaks the coil up toward $6.50-12.

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

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment21 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-30

Kopin's thread reads as concentrated bull narrative around Neural I/O, MicroLED optical interconnects and defense wearables. Posters cite CEO Michael Murray's copper-vs-photonic pitch (boards throttled at 224-448 Gbps while chips are built for 1.6 Tbps), a JonesTrading $12 target, a $15M Fabric AI order and a CES 2027 Neural I/O demo. The Tillman-adjacent Sentinel FPV headset and DIBX 2026 defense-manufacturing showcase round out the ecosystem thesis; skepticism is essentially absent.

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What it does

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

Designs high-resolution microdisplays and wearable display systems for defense headsets, AR/VR, and medical applications.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

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 $KOPN

Neutral — Kopin Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells microdisplays, ; exposure to the industry macro driver is limited or indirect.

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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
534.0How 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
-21.5%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
-43.3%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
-1.5%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
25.4Same 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
4.3%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
34.4%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
0.0Total 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
Q2 2026Aug 11, 2026$0.00$-0.01+135.2%
Q1 2026May 12, 2026$-0.02$-0.01-100.0%
Q1 2026Apr 13, 2026$0.04$-0.02+301.7%
Q3 2025Nov 12, 2025$0.02$-0.01+300.0%
Next earningsWed, Nov 11·consensus EPS $-0.01

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$10.6M+0.1%46.8%-56.7%$-0.02$-2.1M
Q4 FY25$8.4M-42.9%43.4%-60.0%$0.04$-8.0M
Q3 FY25$12.0M-10.2%29.8%-4.7%$0.02$-217K
Q2 FY25$8.5M-31.5%16.4%-64.6%$-0.03$-4.9M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 4 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$57.1M$55.5M – $58.8M-$0.05-$0.05 – -$0.053
FY27$75.5M$73.4M – $77.7M-$0.01-$0.01 – -$0.014
FY28$94.3M$91.8M – $97.1M$0.09$0.09 – $0.091
FY29$109.1M$106.1M – $112.3M$0.11$0.11 – $0.111
FY30$119.5M$116.2M – $123.0M$0.00$0.00 – $0.001

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.1.2×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.56%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.+6.1%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.+31.4%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 155.6M 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.β3.555-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

SellMay 6Baker Paul ChristopherCOO58.9K sh$289KSellMay 5Baker Paul ChristopherCOO1.0K sh$5KSellApr 28Baker Paul ChristopherCOO116.9K sh$462KSellApr 17Murray Michael AndrewCEO96.8K sh$291KSellApr 15Murray Michael AndrewCEO63.2K sh$190KSellApr 13Murray Michael AndrewCEO187.9K sh$526KSellMar 26Murray Michael AndrewCEO5.4K sh$12KSellMar 25Murray Michael AndrewCEO33.3K sh$77K
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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 FDJun 188-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Kopin Corporation (KOPN) filed an 8-K on June 15, 2026 under Item 7.01 (Reg FD) to furnish investor-related materials. The body excerpt was truncated before the substantive disclosure content; no further detail on the nature of the Reg FD materials is available from the excerpt.

8-KOfficer or director changeMay 288-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Kopin Corporation's 2026 Annual Meeting on May 21, 2026 approved an amendment and restatement of its 2020 Equity Incentive Plan, increasing available shares and extending the plan term; Board had approved the amendment on April 16, 2026. Equity plan expansion; modestly dilutive.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 43
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for KOPN on 2026-05-04, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Beneficial ownership covers 1999 shares. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

8-KMaterial agreementApr 298-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

KOPN entered into a license agreement (8-K Item 1.01, dated 2026-04-29). Counterparty: Fabric AI, Inc., pursuant to which Kopin and Fabric AI, Inc. agreed to collabora. Material definitive agreement — investors should review the full exhibit for covenants, conditions, and use of proceeds.

+ 18 other (4 13Gs · 3 earnings 8-Ks · 2 10-Qs · 2 POS AMs) in window

Recent news

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

Kopin Military And Data Center Shift Looks Very Promisingseekingalpha.com·4d agoFabric.AI and Kopin Launch Joint Steering Committee Led by Kopin CEO Michael Murray as Neural I/o™ Industry Engagement Expandsglobenewswire.com·13d agoKopin Bets on MicroLEDs for Defense Drones and AI Data Centersmarketbeat.com·16d agoFabric.AI and Kopin Expand Neural I/o™ Program with Several New Non-Disclosure Agreements Across the AI Interconnect Ecosystemglobenewswire.com·19d agoKopin (KOPN) Reports Break-Even Earnings for Q2zacks.com·19d ago

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