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Microchip Technology Incorporated

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 35% YoY at strong marginsStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (260/wk), no spike
$MCHP·$40B·Semiconductors·Technology
$73.85-0.6%YTD+13.6%1Y+13.0%
Price updated 7h ago·X counts updated 5d ago
MCMCHP
$MCHPMicrochip Technology Incorporated
$73.85-0.55%260 posts1×
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On X

The complete picture of $MCHP on X — how loud the conversation is right now, how it has trended over the last two weeks, and which way the crowd is leaning.

260X posts · last 7 days
Sep 29Oct 11
Chatter Meter
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How loud $MCHP's conversation on X is versus its own normal — 1× is typical, higher means busier. Right now it's about its usual level.

Bullish sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data9 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-31

Chatter is small but pointedly bullish, driven by an eye-popping options print. A single diagonal (sell 150,110 October $72.50 calls, buy 119,030 December $65 calls) accounts for most of the day's 272,935-contract volume and a 135:1 call/put ratio. Fundamental voices cite a PEG of 0.42, edge-AI and data-center demand, and the Hailo acquisition; a chartist flags the "trendline support on the weekly timeframe" with an ARM-style setup comparison.

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AI verdictAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

TickerTalks' own read on what's driving $MCHP — fundamentals, momentum, or an event — and whether it agrees with the X crowd.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-10-02

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Microchip at 52% of 52-week range — 35% revenue growth plus a 135:1 call/put ratio from a single $65 December call sweep.

Microchip Technology makes microcontrollers, analog ICs, and connectivity chips for industrial, automotive, and increasingly AI-at-the-edge applications. The stock is up 20% YTD and consolidating around the 50-day MA on unusual options activity (272,935 contracts, 135:1 call/put ratio).

  • The P&L is accelerating sharply: revenue grew 35% YoY to $1.31B last quarter at a 16% operating margin — the industrial-semi cycle recovery is landing in the P&L, and the single-pair Ethernet product launches extend the automotive/industrial pipeline.
  • The 48V power portfolio expansion and the Hailo acquisition integration (edge-AI) is the specific commercial story — Microchip is pivoting from traditional MCU/analog toward edge-AI inference and 48V power delivery, which lines up with Vicor's thesis.
  • The options flow is specific: a single diagonal (sell 150K October $72.50 calls, buy 119K December $65 calls) accounts for most of the volume — a 135:1 call/put ratio with PEG 0.42 is the asymmetric-setup bulls lean on.

Accelerating holds while industrial-semi cycle extends and edge-AI design wins land. A soft Nov 5 earnings print on industrial revenue (sub-25% YoY), or any specific commentary on inventory build at distributors, is what cools the move; a strong Hailo-attached revenue contribution plus a FY27 revenue guide above $5.5B is what extends the breakout toward prior highs.

Agrees with X sentimentX bulls on the eye-popping options print, PEG 0.42, edge-AI/data-center demand, Hailo acquisition, and the ARM-style trendline support have the mechanics right — this is a legitimate cyclical-plus-structural setup confirmed by the options flow.

What to watch: Nov 5 earnings — industrial segment revenue growth above 25% YoY, Hailo acquisition revenue contribution, automotive growth, and FY27 revenue guide. A soft industrial print or distributor inventory build is what cools the breakout.

On the calendar: 2026-11-05 — Q2 FY27 earnings

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What it does

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

Large microcontroller and mixed-signal IC maker serving embedded control applications across automotive, industrial, and IoT.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — hyperscaler AI capex remains the structural driver with Blackwell supply still packaging-constrained. Jensen Huang publicly named memory bandwidth as AI's next bottleneck, reinforcing HBM3e pricing power. AVGO custom ASIC demand broadens AI beneficiaries beyond NVDA's GPU allocation.

What this means for $MCHP

Direct beneficiary — Large microcontroller and mixed-signal IC maker serving embedded control applications across automotive, industrial, and IoT.; CoWoS/SoIC packaging is the Blackwell supply constraint, making OSATs a direct AI capex valve.

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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
236.6How 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
3.1%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
10.4%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
1.8%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
10.2Same 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
3.0%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
57.7%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
0.9Total 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 6, 2026$0.76$0.70+8.6%
Q1 2026May 7, 2026$0.57$0.51+12.9%
Q4 2025Feb 5, 2026$0.44$0.43+2.7%
Q3 2025Nov 6, 2025$0.35$0.33+5.9%
Next earningsThu, Nov 5·consensus EPS $0.94

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q4 FY26$1.3B+35.1%61.0%16.1%$0.21$242.8M
Q3 FY26$1.2B+15.6%59.6%12.8%$0.06$318.9M
Q2 FY26$1.1B-2.0%55.9%8.3%$0.08$51.6M
Q1 FY26$1.1B-13.4%53.6%3.0%$-0.09$257.7M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 19 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$4.7B$4.5B – $4.7B$1.57$1.55 – $1.6319
FY27$6.4B$6.3B – $6.6B$3.64$3.48 – $3.7919
FY28$7.4B$7.0B – $8.9B$4.57$4.17 – $5.0119
FY29$8.2B$7.8B – $9.1B$5.23$4.06 – $6.689

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.2.2×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.44%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.-2.5%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.-7.0%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 532.7M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today3.5% 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.β1.765-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 25Bjornholt James EricCFO4.1K sh$310KSellJun 4Richard J SimoncicCOO5.0K sh$488KSellMay 28Matthew W ChapmanDirector3.0K sh$293KSellMay 22Bjornholt James EricCFO3.7K sh$333KSellMay 22Richard J SimoncicCOO5.0K sh$467KSellMay 15Matthew W ChapmanDirector10.0K sh$955KSellMay 15Richard J SimoncicCOO83 sh$8K
+ 41 other (17 awards · 12 inkinds · 12 exempts) 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

3New insider — initial holdingsAug 283
AI summary

Stephanus Duvenhage filed an initial Form 3 as a newly designated reporting officer (Senior Vice President, Analog Business Unit) of Microchip Technology, with a reporting obligation effective date of August 18, 2026. As of the reporting date, Duvenhage held no shares of MCHP common stock directly or indirectly. This is a routine insider registration filing; the filing establishes the baseline for future Form 4 disclosures.

3New insider — initial holdingsAug 283
AI summary

Stephanus Duvenhage filed a second Form 3 as a reporting officer (Senior Vice President, Analog Business Unit) of Microchip Technology, with the same August 18, 2026 effective date as the companion filing. This appears to be a duplicate or corrective re-filing of the initial Form 3; as of the reporting date, Duvenhage held no shares of MCHP common stock. This is a routine insider registration filing with no substantive new disclosure beyond the companion filing.

3New insider — initial holdingsAug 283
AI summary

Stephanus Duvenhage filed a third Form 3 as a reporting officer (Senior Vice President, Analog Business Unit) of Microchip Technology, with the same August 18, 2026 effective date as the two companion filings. This appears to be a third duplicate or corrective submission; as of the reporting date, Duvenhage held no shares of MCHP common stock. This is a routine insider registration filing with no additional substantive disclosure beyond the companion filings.

8-KOfficer or director changeAug 198-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

At Microchip Technology's August 18, 2026 annual stockholder meeting, shareholders elected all seven director nominees (with Ellen Barker receiving the lowest support at ~386M votes for vs. Mitch Little's ~439M) and approved an amendment to the 2004 Equity Incentive Plan adding 12,000,000 shares authorized for issuance, subject to prior Board approval. The equity plan amendment adds to the share reserve, creating modest potential dilution. This is a routine annual meeting outcome with no unusual governance outcomes.

8-KOfficer or director changeJul 248-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

MCHP filed an 8-K under Item 5.02 disclosing a personnel change: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers On July 23, 2026, Richard J. Personnel changes at the executive or board level are typically administrative but can signal strategic shifts depending on context.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 103
AI summary

Mitchell R. Little, a Director of Microchip Technology Inc., filed a Form 3 on June 1, 2026, reporting initial beneficial ownership. He directly owns 1,086 shares of common stock and 472 RSUs (specific vesting terms in footnotes). No 10% holder status. Routine initial insider ownership disclosure upon becoming a reporting director — administrative, no market impact.

8-KOfficer or director changeJun 18-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

Microchip Technology appointed former SVP Mitch Little (founder of CUSP Advisory Group and author of two books on client value) to the Board effective June 1, 2026; not assigned to any committee. Routine board addition; no financial impact.

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Recent news

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

Why Microchip Tech (MCHP) is Poised to Beat Earnings Estimates Againzacks.com·15h agoThese 2 Computer and Technology Stocks Could Beat Earnings: Why They Should Be on Your Radarzacks.com·18h agoMicrochip Technology Incorporated $MCHP Stake Lowered by First Citizens Bank & Trust Co.defenseworld.net·2d agoMicrochip Technology Inc (MCHP) Shares Fall 3.9% -- What GF Score of 80 Tells Investorsgurufocus.com·2d agoMicrochip Expands Space Power Portfolio with New Radiation-Tolerant GaN Point-of-Load Converterglobenewswire.com·3d ago

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