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Interlink Electronics, Inc.

$LINK·$66M·Semiconductors·Technology
$4.65-0.2%YTD+18.9%1Y-11.1%
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$LINKInterlink Electronics, Inc.
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

Stuck sidewaysStalledAI verdict · as of 2026-07-16

The move has stalled — likely just drifts unless something new shows up.

A tiny sensor microcap that just joined the Russell Microcap Index — the loud X 'LINK' chatter is actually about Chainlink, not this.

Interlink Electronics is a decades-old, tiny sensor and printed-electronics maker (force-sensing resistors, gas sensors, custom HMI modules) that was just added to the Russell Microcap Index in late June. At $66M cap it's the kind of name where the tape is nobody's daily beat.

  • The core business is small but showing positive momentum: Q1 2026 revenue grew 15% YoY to $3.1M, gross margin held at 36%, and revenue has stepped up each of the last two quarters — a real signal for a name this small, though operating margin is still minus 15%.
  • The float is genuinely tiny: 2.77M shares of float means daily volume is thin, and even one institutional buyer entering or exiting can move the tape 5-10% on no news — the Russell inclusion should add passive-fund demand, but the liquidity profile remains fragile.
  • The X chatter tagged '$LINK' is not about this company: it's about Chainlink (the SWIFT/DTCC crypto), which uses the same ticker symbol on crypto exchanges but has zero relationship to Interlink's sensor business.

The August 6 Q2 print is the next real information event — a Q2 revenue step meaningfully above $3.1M with gross margin holding above 35% starts to build a real earnings-power case. Without that, the stock likely drifts sideways as it has for twelve months, with the Russell inclusion the only visible near-term positive.

What to watch: The August 6 Q2 earnings. Watch Q2 revenue vs $3.1M Q1 base, gross margin durability at 35%+, and any operating-margin move toward breakeven. Without acceleration, the tape likely drifts on the tiny float; the Russell Microcap inclusion adds only marginal passive demand.

On the calendar: 2026-08-06 — Q2 earnings

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X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment40 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-17

The Chainlink conversation is overwhelmingly bullish around a specific catalyst: DTCC's tokenized-collateral platform going into production, publicly identified as using Chainlink infrastructure, alongside JPMorgan and CME participation. Posters frame this as the long-promised institutional adoption moment, cite $2M+ of recent Bitwise LINK accumulation, spot LINK ETF net inflows, and a LINK/BTC chart compressing into a multi-year pattern that they expect to resolve up. Bears are essentially absent; the only critical voices are stale-narrative complaints about past false starts. The tone is triumphal rather than measured.

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What it does

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

Maker of force-sensing resistor technologies and custom sensor solutions for human-machine interface applications.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

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 $LINK

Partial — Maker of force-sensing resistor technologies and custom sensor solutions for human-machine interface applications; exposure exists but is diluted by diverse end markets and revenue mix.

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
-67.4How 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
-12.4%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
-11.6%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
-0.5%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
6.3Same 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
-12.2%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
33.4%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
0.1Total 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
Q1 2026May 14, 2026$-0.02$-0.03+25.0%
Q4 2025Mar 26, 2026$-0.04$-0.03-20.0%
Q3 2025Nov 12, 2025$-0.03$-0.03+10.0%
Q1 2025May 13, 2025$-0.08$-0.06-36.0%
Next earningsThu, Aug 6·consensus EPS $-0.03

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$3.1M+15.4%36.3%-14.6%$-0.02$-543K
Q4 FY25$2.9M-4.5%23.8%-25.7%$-0.04$-375K
Q3 FY25$3.0M+10.8%34.0%-10.6%$-0.03$650K
Q2 FY25$3.4M+17.8%38.3%1.9%$0.00$-143K

Forward consensus

2-year forecast · up to 1 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$16.7M$16.7M – $16.7M-$0.01-$0.01 – -$0.011
FY27$19.9M$19.9M – $19.9M$0.01$0.01 – $0.011

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.0.8×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.27%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.+7.3%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.+10.9%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatTiny float · 2.8M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.8% 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.β1.005-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.

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-KShareholder voteMay 208-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Interlink Electronics, Inc. held its 2026 annual meeting on May 19, 2026 with 14,062,230 of 15,750,007 eligible shares (89.28%) represented. Steven N. Bronson, Joy C. Hou, David J. Wolenski, and Maria N. Fregosi were elected as directors by plurality vote. Routine annual meeting governance filing for the force sensing technology company.

8-KOfficer or director changeMar 268-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · 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.

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