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Rambus Inc.

$RMBS·$9.5B·Semiconductors·Technology
$87.25-6.1%YTD+2.9%1Y-11.1%
Price updated 7h ago·X counts updated 5d ago
RMRMBS
$RMBSRambus Inc.
$87.25-6.05%109 posts1×
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On X

The complete picture of $RMBS 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.

109X posts · last 7 days
Sep 29Oct 11
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How loud $RMBS's conversation on X is versus its own normal — 1× is typical, higher means busier. Right now it's about its usual level, louder than 75% of tracked names.

Bullish sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data6 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-04

Rambus posters are constructive after Q2 — record revenue $207.4M (+20% YoY, product revenue +22%), non-GAAP EPS $0.77 (+24% YoY, beat by 6.9%), $825M cash-fortress with zero debt. Posters call it 'one of the cleaner AI-infrastructure signals this week' and note it 'keeps grinding higher.' A grand-jury subpoena and legal overhang is mentioned as something to audit but doesn't derail the tone. One trader sold 200 shares at $85.85 cost basis. Little bearish voice.

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AI verdictAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

Proven numbersEvent coming upAI verdict · as of 2026-10-03

A known event soon (earnings, a ruling, etc.) will likely decide the next move.

Memory-interface IP with $825M cash and zero debt — a quiet AI-infrastructure play into Oct 26 earnings.

Rambus is a specialty semiconductor IP company — memory-interface chips, security IP, and licensing — whose products sit inside the memory subsystem of every modern server. The 2026 setup is 'AI-driven DRAM demand lifts the attach rate for Rambus IP without the capital-intensive manufacturing risk.'

  • The P&L is cleanly profitable and compounding: last quarter revenue was up 8% YoY to $180M at a 34% operating margin, with trailing EPS beats of 7% and 3% — these are the economics of an IP-licensing business, which the market consistently underprices against pure-fabless peers.
  • The balance sheet is a differentiator worth naming: $825M cash with zero debt gives Rambus optionality that other AI-infrastructure plays don't have — this is a company that can buy a complementary IP portfolio without needing dilution to do it.

At 35% of its 52-week range going into Oct 26 earnings with volume at 0.53x average, the setup is a quiet coil on improving fundamentals. A clean 10%+ EPS beat with any product-revenue growth above 25% is the trigger; a soft licensing-revenue line or any grand-jury-subpoena update (flagged by the thread as a legal overhang) is the first real risk.

Agrees with X sentimentThe 'cleaner AI-infrastructure signals' bull read is well-grounded on the balance sheet and the fundamentals. The grand-jury-subpoena overhang is correctly flagged as something to audit — this is the one real risk the thread acknowledges honestly.

What to watch: Oct 26 Q3 earnings — product revenue growth, licensing-revenue direction, operating margin, and any grand-jury update. 25%+ product-revenue growth plus licensing stability is the trigger; a licensing miss or legal escalation is the invalidation.

On the calendar: 2026-10-26 — Q3 earnings

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What it does

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

Licenses semiconductor memory interface patents and makes controller chips for AI server and high-bandwidth memory applications.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

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 $RMBS

Direct beneficiary — Licenses semiconductor memory interface patents and makes controller chips for AI server and high-bandwidth memory applications.; AI cluster networking demand is the secondary semi capex wave after GPU silicon.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor 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
68.2How 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
14.6%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
35.9%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
2.1%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
21.8Same 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
17.4%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
77.0%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 2026Jul 27, 2026$0.77$0.72+7.4%
Q1 2026Apr 27, 2026$0.63$0.61+3.3%
Q4 2025Feb 2, 2026$0.68$0.680.0%
Q3 2025Oct 27, 2025$0.63$0.630.0%
Next earningsMon, Oct 26·consensus EPS $0.79

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$180.2M+8.1%79.7%34.3%$0.55$71.6M
Q4 FY25$190.2M+18.1%78.9%37.2%$0.59$93.3M
Q3 FY25$178.5M+22.7%74.4%35.4%$0.45$82.5M
Q2 FY25$172.2M+30.3%74.9%36.6%$0.54$87.9M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 5 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$828.7M$802.2M – $879.1M$3.04$2.91 – $3.285
FY27$999.4M$967.4M – $1.1B$3.79$3.63 – $4.095
FY28$1.2B$1.2B – $1.3B$4.79$3.68 – $7.815
FY29$1.3B$1.3B – $1.4B$4.83$4.63 – $5.212

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.10%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.-19.4%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 107.6M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.5% 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.β1.855-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

SellOct 2Charles KissnerDirector5.0K sh$555KSellSep 22Charles KissnerDirector5.0K sh$525KSellAug 7Charles KissnerDirector5.0K sh$505KSellJun 3Necip SayinerDirector5.0K sh$851KSellJun 2Emiko HigashiDirector10.0K sh$1.6MSellJun 1Eric B StangDirector5.0K sh$730KSellMay 26Emiko HigashiDirector5.0K sh$788KSellMay 26Fan Xianzhi SeanCOO37.9K sh$5.8MSellMay 22John ShinnSVP, General Counsel1.0K sh$144KSellMay 8Necip SayinerDirector9.8K sh$1.3M
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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 holdingsSep 153
AI summary

William Clarence Taulbee II, Chief Accounting Officer of Rambus Inc. (RMBS), filed an initial Form 3 dated September 8, 2026, disclosing beneficial ownership of 8,293 shares of common stock held as RSUs vesting in four equal annual installments beginning September 1, 2027. This is a routine insider ownership disclosure following his appointment; no material business events are implied.

8-KOfficer or director changeSep 48-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

Rambus Inc. (RMBS) filed an 8-K (Item 5.02) announcing that John Allen, Chief Accounting Officer, will retire effective September 8, 2026. No successor was named in the body excerpt. The company thanked Allen for his service.

8-KMaterial agreementAug 58-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
AI summary

RMBS filed an 8-K (Item 1.01) disclosing entry into a material definitive agreement. The filing describes: entered into a Supplemental Confirmation under the Master Confirmation (the “Master Agreement,” and together with the Supplemental Confirmation, the “ASR Agreement”) with Mizuho Markets Americas LLC, . Key financial terms include $100 million. Material definitive agreements are significant corporate commitments and may be transformative depending on scope.

3New insider — initial holdingsApr 303
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for RMBS on 2026-04-30, 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.

8-KOfficer or director changeApr 298-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

RMBS disclosed a personnel change (8-K Item 5.02, dated 2026-04-29). An executive departure and a new appointment are both reported. Sumeet Gagneja as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial. Personnel changes are generally administrative; materiality depends on seniority and circumstances.

8-KShareholder voteApr 248-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

RMBS held its annual meeting of stockholders around 2026-04-24 (8-K Item 5.07). The meeting was adjourned, likely due to insufficient quorum. Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

+ 11 other (6 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 1 SD) in window

Recent news

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

Rambus Inc (RMBS) Stock Down 6.0% -- Now Undervalued? GF Score: 90/100gurufocus.com·10h agoOrchid Island Capital Announces October 2026 Monthly Dividend, Estimated Third Quarter Results and September 30, 2026 RMBS Portfolio Characteristicsglobenewswire.com·2d agoPrediction: Rambus Could Benefit Every Time AI Gets Faster247wallst.com·3d ago36,053 Shares of Rambus, Inc. $RMBS Bought by NorthCrest Asset Manangement LLCdefenseworld.net·3d agoRambus Advances Power-Efficient AI Infrastructure with Industry-Leading PMIC Designed for LPDDR6 SOCAMM2businesswire.com·3d ago

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