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SEALSQ Corp

$LAES·$337M·Semiconductors·Technology
$2.48-0.2%YTD-35.2%1Y-11.1%
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LALAES
$LAESSEALSQ Corp
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

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

Too early to tellSelling offAI verdict · as of 2026-08-30

Falling on heavy selling — points lower unless it turns around.

Post-quantum semiconductor micro-cap with a shrinking revenue line and a story that keeps getting extended — tape is heading toward the low.

SEALSQ Corp is a small Swiss/US semiconductor company building post-quantum cryptography chips — the QASIC (Quantum ASIC) platform meant to secure future networks against quantum-computer attacks. The narrative is real; the P&L is not.

What you're looking at:

  • Revenue base is shrinking: last reported quarter was $12.7M down 27% year-on-year, prior quarter down 62% YoY to $5.6M — the legacy business is going the wrong way while QASIC is still pre-scale.
  • Operating economics are severe: operating margin -105% last quarter and -475% before that, at a $336M market cap this is a pre-revenue story stock in a hardware wrapper.
  • Pipeline of announcements keeps expanding: Wecan-SwissBorg token listing, ICAlps QASIC roadmap, Palm Technologies India post-quantum — many partnerships, none that meaningfully moves near-term revenue.
  • Price action is breaking down: at only the 7th percentile of the 52-week range, 8.5% below the 50-day and 28% below the 200-day — capitulation shape, story hasn't converted to numbers.
  • Fresh officer appointments (CMO, Chief Quantum Officer) tell you management is building the team as the runway shortens — bull if contracts arrive, bear if not.

The September 9 print is what breaks the downtrend — a specific QASIC design-win with a named customer and revenue timeline is what unlocks a real rerate; another shrinking-revenue quarter with the pipeline still in 'partnerships announced' language pushes shares to fresh 52-week lows near $2.

What to watch: September 9 earnings — a specific QASIC design-win with a named customer and revenue timeline unlocks a rerate; another shrinking-revenue quarter with only 'partnerships announced' language pushes shares to fresh 52-week lows near $2.

On the calendar: 2026-09-09 — Semi-annual earnings

X sentiment

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

Mixed sentiment5 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-30

SEALSQ is being pitched as a speculative post-quantum security bet, with posters excited about QASIC prototype milestones, the WISeKey Alexander Hirsch CMO hire, and IBM's HRL acquisition raising the profile of the quantum-security ecosystem. One long thesis frames LAES as high-risk, high-upside with weak financials, cash burn, and bearish technical sentiment. Chart-focused posts flag a break through the daily gold zone, but the underlying tone stays cautious.

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What it does

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

Makes secure semiconductor chips and managed PKI identity provisioning for IoT across aerospace, telecom, and consumer electronics.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

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 $LAES

Direct beneficiary — semiconductor products are directly in the AI capex supply chain; SEALSQ Corp, a subsidiary of WISeKey International Holding AG, was founded in 2022 and operates out of Cointrin, Switzer.

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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
-12.6How 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
-8.3%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
-218%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
-8.8%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
25.0Same 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
47.3%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
0.0Total 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
Q4 2025Mar 31, 2026$-0.08$-0.05-60.0%
Q2 2025Sep 9, 2025$-0.05$-0.050.0%
Q4 2024Mar 20, 2025$-0.28——
Q2 2024Sep 25, 2024$-0.37——
Next earningsWed, Sep 9·consensus EPS $-0.10

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q4 FY25$12.7M-26.8%53.3%-105%$-0.09$-25.7M
Q2 FY25$5.6M-62.1%33.7%-475%$-0.20$-14.3M
Q4 FY24$7.1M-45.7%45.4%-141%$-0.28$-8.0M
Q2 FY24$5.4M-51.9%19.3%-184%$-0.80$-5.5M

Forward consensus

2-year forecast · up to 2 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$30.6M$30.0M – $31.2M-$0.18-$0.18 – -$0.182
FY27$39.5M$39.0M – $40.0M-$0.21-$0.21 – -$0.212

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.7%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.-8.5%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.-27.7%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 113.5M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today7.6% 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.β-7.685-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 5Jean-pierre EnguentPresident15.0K sh$37KSellJul 8Jean-pierre EnguentPresident15.0K sh$42KSellJun 5Carlos MoreiraCEO300 sh$1KSellJun 5O'hara John CharlesCFO143 sh$502SellMay 29O'hara John CharlesCFO10.0K sh$35KSellMay 29Carlos MoreiraCEO10.0K sh$35KSellMay 27Carlos MoreiraCEO4.1K sh$15KSellMay 27O'hara John CharlesCFO4.7K sh$16KSellMay 14Buonanno Franck JeanPresident20.0K sh$58KSellMay 6Jean-pierre EnguentPresident15.0K sh$47K
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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

3New insider — initial holdingsAug 263
AI summary

The Chief Marketing Officer of SEALSQ Corp (ticker: LAES) filed a Form 3 reporting no beneficial ownership of company securities upon joining as an officer. This is a routine initial officer ownership report with no economic significance.

3New insider — initial holdingsAug 173
AI summary

SEALSQ Corp (LAES) filed a Form 3 for Daniel Frederic Alexandre Brau, its Chief Quantum Officer, establishing his initial Section 16 ownership report. Brau beneficially owns no SEALSQ securities at the time of filing. SEALSQ is a Switzerland-based cybersecurity and semiconductor company focused on post-quantum cryptography.

3/ANew insider — initial holdingsMar 303/A
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3/A (amended) for LAES on 2026-03-30, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

3/ANew insider — initial holdingsMar 303/A
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3/A (amended) for LAES on 2026-03-30, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 193
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for LAES on 2026-03-19, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for LAES on 2026-03-18, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for LAES on 2026-03-18, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for LAES on 2026-03-18, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

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Recent news

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

SEALSQ Majority-Owned Wecan Group Partners with SwissBorg to List the WECAN Tokenglobenewswire.com·4d agoSEALSQ's Subsidiary ICAlps Advances QASIC Roadmap for Sovereign, Quantum-Resistant Application-Specific Integrated Circuitsglobenewswire.com·5d agoPalm Technologies Selects SEALSQ Solutions to Bring Post-Quantum Hardware Security to India's Digital Payment, Public Transport and Connected Infrastructure Marketsglobenewswire.com·13d agoSEALSQ Issues CEO Letter to Shareholdersglobenewswire.com·18d agoSEALSQ's SEALQuantum Sovereign Quantum Vertical Stack Interconnects Its Growing Ecosystem as $200 Million SEALQuantum.com Initiative Enters Second Phase of Deployment in Septemberglobenewswire.com·24d ago

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