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Interlink Electronics, Inc.

$LINK·$80M·Hardware, Equipment & Parts·Technology
$5.82+15.7%YTD+12.5%1Y-10.6%
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2026-08-22: 1,152 posts6,972+18%
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LILINK
$LINKInterlink Electronics, Inc.
$5.82+15.71%7.0k posts+18%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

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.

Hinges on a big eventWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-08-31

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

Tiny sensor microcap angling for a transformative acquisition — with a ticker that keeps getting confused for the crypto token everyone's actually posting about.

Interlink Electronics is a small-cap sensor company that makes the force-sensing hardware inside automotive controls, industrial devices and smart-home products. On its own it's quiet, but it sits on a pending acquisition that would meaningfully change the revenue profile — and it shares a ticker with the crypto token Chainlink that dominates any '$LINK' chatter on X.

  • The business is small but growing: Q2 revenue was $3.77M and management flagged a $50M annual revenue target once the pending acquisition closes — that's a roughly 4x step in the top line and the number that separates a microcap curiosity from a real small-cap growth name.
  • Recent beats have been meaningful in percentage terms: last quarter's EPS surprised by 175% and the company printed a rare positive EPS number, thin but real evidence that the operating base is turning.
  • The float is genuinely tiny at ~2.77M shares in a mid-single-digit stock, so any real news catalyst gets amplified by structure — a deal close and guide bump would move price on very little volume.
  • External validation is essentially absent: one analyst covers the name, no insider open-market buys, no cluster signals — so any conviction here comes from the deal itself, not from broader institutional confirmation.

The move that matters is the acquisition closing and the guidance bump that follows — that's what turns a sensor microcap into a real small-cap growth story. Absent that, LINK keeps drifting on crypto-token confusion rather than its own fundamentals.

Differs from X sentimentThe X chatter is almost entirely about the crypto token Chainlink — Schwab crypto listing, spot-ETF flows, Chainlink Reserve accumulation. None of it applies to Interlink Electronics the equity, whose actual story is a pending sensor-business acquisition and modest quarterly growth.

What to watch: Close of the pending transformative acquisition and the $50M revenue guide bump that follows. Without it the stock drifts on ticker-confusion flow rather than fundamentals; with it, the tape re-rates on a real 4x revenue step.

On the calendar: 2026-11-05 — Q3 earnings

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X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment174 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-31

Broadly bullish, anchored by $13T Charles Schwab confirming $LINK for its crypto platform, framed as opening 'roughly 40 million mainstream brokerage accounts.' Bulls stack that with the Chainlink Reserve accumulating 462,730 LINK in August, oracle-secured value near $33.6T, and Coinbase tokenized-stock integration on Base. Technicians watch an $11.20-$11.50 base with targets to $14 and further out $18-$24. Detractors mock a 'cult,' cite years-underwater bags, and note ETF inflows just paused.

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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 Hardware, Equipment & Parts sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $LINK.

Hardware, Equipment & Parts · Technology

AI server infrastructure buildout drives compute shipment volumes; Dell and HPE are riding the same hyperscaler capex wave that lifted NVDA. Non-AI commercial refresh remains soft, so the bull case is concentrated in AI infrastructure exposure.

What this means for $LINK

Partial — software subscription economics provide some insulation from macro cycles; AI integration is the growth catalyst for this segment; Interlink Electronics, Inc.

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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
Q2 2026Aug 13, 2026$0.02$-0.03+175.0%
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%
Next earningsThu, Nov 5·consensus EPS $-0.02

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.2.7×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.+24.4%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.+48.9%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 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.β1.015-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

No open-market buys or sells in the last 180 days.

+ 3 other (3 awards) in window

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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-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
+ 9 other (2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 10-Qs · 2 proxys · 1 S-8) in window

Recent news

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

Schwab Plans to Add SOL, AVAX, and LINK Trading Across Its 39.9 Million Accounts. Here’s What It Means for the Crypto Trade247wallst.com·4d agoCharles Schwab Announces Plans to Expand Digital Assets Available in Schwab Crypto™ Accountsgurufocus.com·5d agoLINK Mobility Group Holding ASA (LMGHF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcriptseekingalpha.com·13d agoInterlink Electronics Eyes $50M Revenue as Transformative Acquisition Nearsmarketbeat.com·13d agoInterlink Electronics to Participate in the Lytham Partners 2026 Consumer & Technology Investor Summit on August 18, 2026globenewswire.com·15d ago

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