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Roku, Inc.

$ROKU·$23B·Entertainment·Communication Services
$157.68+0.9%YTD+35.0%1Y+61.7%
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ROROKU
$ROKURoku, Inc.
$157.68+0.91%138 posts-6%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

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

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-08-30

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

Roku up 62% over 12 months and near a 52-week high — the streaming platform is monetizing at scale after years of doubt.

Roku is the leading US streaming-media platform — the OS on 80M+ connected-TV devices plus a fast-growing ad-supported platform business (The Roku Channel). It's near all-time highs and the AI-plus-ad-tech thesis is finally converting.

Why the setup works:

  • Revenue re-accelerated: Q1 revenue grew 22.4% year-on-year to $1.25B, op margin turned positive at 4.1% — top-line reacceleration with margin expansion is the setup that reprices a platform stock.
  • Valuation is expensive but supported: 89x trailing earnings looks scary, but 3.6x sales for 22%-growing CTV with 44% gross margins is defensible; forward P/E compresses as ad revenue scales.
  • Content flywheel building: NWSL Sunday Night streaming on The Roku Channel from Aug 30 (expanded 2027) is the kind of sports anchor that drives sustained CTV engagement and ad monetization.
  • Position confirms the run: 97th percentile of the 52-week range, 8% above the 50-day and 35% above the 200-day — late-stage trend continuation, so the asymmetric risk is a soft print.
  • Insider signal is mildly negative: officer Jedda sold $1.1M, mostly award events; no cluster of open-market distribution.
  • JPMorgan named ROKU a top consumer-tech pick — analyst wind at the back into November.

The November 4 print defends the setup — Platform (ad-supported segment) growth accelerating with account and ARPU expansion keeps the multiple; a soft Platform quarter or ARPU deceleration pulls the stock back to the 200-day near $117.

Agrees with X sentimentAgree — the bullish anchors (squeezing out of base, EMAs stacking, NWSL partnership expanding, JPMorgan top-pick inclusion) all map to real signals; the honest add is at the 97th percentile the setup is late-stage trend continuation, so a soft print has asymmetric downside.

What to watch: November 4 earnings — Platform revenue growth accelerating with active-account and ARPU expansion keeps the multiple; a soft Platform quarter or ARPU deceleration triggers a pullback back to the 200-day near $117.

On the calendar: 2026-11-04 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment7 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-27

Roku sentiment is confidently bullish. Users celebrate ROKU squeezing out of the base after a recent volume pump with EMAs stacking (last time the same 🍋 plot preceded a pull-back and launch), NWSL expanding partnership with a Sunday Night streaming package starting Aug 30 (matches stream free on the Roku Sports Channel, expanded 2027), and one A+ swing trade taking 1,000 contracts of 8/21 $162.5c @ $0.06. Skepticism is limited to a couple of pump-and-dump-tag posts against a specific X user profiting +$7,540 by pumping ROKU options; the modal stance is 'loving ROKU here — watching very closely'.

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What it does

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

Operates the leading US streaming TV platform, monetizing via advertising on its free channel and revenue-sharing with streaming app partners.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Entertainment sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $ROKU.

Entertainment · Communication Services

Streaming subscriber economics are the central tension: pricing power improving as password-sharing crackdowns and ad-tier rollouts lift ARPU. Linear TV cord-cutting continues structurally — sports rights remain the last durable moat.

What this means for $ROKU

Partial — REIT cash flows tied to occupancy, rent growth, and cap rate environment; Roku, Inc.

Industry benchmark

9-name peer basket
+13.9%YTD
-0.2%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
89.5How 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
2.9%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
2.1%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
3.6%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
3.6Same 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
7.6%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
44.2%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
0.2Total 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$1.08$0.60+78.5%
Q1 2026Apr 30, 2026$0.57$0.33+72.6%
Q4 2025Feb 12, 2026$0.53$0.28+89.3%
Q3 2025Oct 30, 2025$0.16$0.07+128.6%
Next earningsWed, Nov 4·consensus EPS $0.55

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$1.2B+22.4%45.2%4.1%$0.58$196.0M
Q4 FY25$1.4B+16.1%43.5%4.7%$0.54$221.6M
Q3 FY25$1.2B+14.0%43.4%0.8%$0.17$126.5M
Q2 FY25$1.1B+14.8%44.8%-2.1%$0.07$108.6M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 21 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$5.6B$5.5B – $5.6B$2.47$2.43 – $2.5921
FY27$6.2B$6.1B – $6.4B$3.62$3.23 – $4.4521
FY28$7.0B$6.7B – $7.5B$5.42$4.39 – $6.4914
FY29$7.5B$7.3B – $7.7B$6.29$6.09 – $6.569
FY30$7.7B$7.5B – $7.9B$6.85$6.64 – $7.1413

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.0.6×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.97%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.+7.8%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.+35.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 130.1M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.2% 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.β2.045-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 17Dan JeddaCFO7.0K sh$1.1MSellAug 6Gilbert FuchsbergPresident10.7K sh$1.6MSellAug 4Charles CollierPresident20.5K sh$3.0MSellAug 3Matthew C. BanksVP, CAO552 sh$81KSellAug 3Neil D HuntDirector2.0K sh$293KSellJul 15Dan JeddaCFO7.0K sh$993KSellJul 6Charles CollierPresident19.3K sh$2.8MSellJul 1Neil D HuntDirector2.0K sh$281KSellJul 1Matthew C. BanksVP, CAO554 sh$77KSellJun 15Dan JeddaCFO7.0K sh$1.0M
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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 voteJun 178-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Roku, Inc. filed an 8-K (Item 5.07) dated June 11, 2026, reporting shareholder vote results from its annual meeting. The excerpt contains only cover-page boilerplate with no vote tallies or proposal outcomes visible. This is a routine governance disclosure; materiality depends on whether any contested proposals produced notable against-votes.

8-KMaterial agreementJun 158-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

Roku, Inc. (ROKU) entered into a material definitive agreement (Item 1.01) and reported other events (Item 8.01) in an 8-K filed June 15, 2026. Body unavailable — excerpt cuts off before the specific agreement terms and other-event details are disclosed.

8-KPress release / Reg FDApr 138-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

ROKU filed an 8-K Item 7.01 (Reg FD) disclosure dated 2026-04-13. Reg FD disclosures make material information simultaneously available to all investors; content may include guidance updates, strategic plans, or preliminary results.

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Recent news

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

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