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SCHMID Group N.V. Class A Ordinary Shares

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$SHMD·$169M·Industrial - Machinery·Industrials
$4.14-3.9%YTD-33.5%1Y+39.9%
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SHSHMD
$SHMDSCHMID Group N.V. Class A Ordinary Shares
$4.14-3.94%84 posts-8%
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Top X posts

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

Comeback attemptWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-07-17

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

Schmid Group is the specific fine-line AI-substrate embedded-trace-plating moat — €37M China order plus guide raise is the setup.

Schmid Group is the German specialty-equipment maker whose specific fine-line AI-substrate embedded-trace-plating technology has become the specific moat for advanced-packaging supply chain. The stock is at 27% of its 52-week range on the specific China-order plus guide-raise setup.

Why the setup reads:

  • The €37M China order is category-defining: adding to an $80M+ backlog with the specific technological moat as the community frames it — meaning the equity has specific durable revenue visibility.
  • The guide-raise catalyst is imminent: management is currently reviewing an upward revision of guidance — meaning specific forward numbers are set to change materially.
  • Fundamentals are still catching up: 24% gross margin at -14% operating margin means Schmid is currently loss-making — meaning the equity is priced on the specific commercial-conversion arriving.
  • The community models a specific 10x path: EUR 250mn revenue at 25% EBITDA margins equals €62.5mn EBITDA — the specific back-of-envelope math that anchors the bullish framing.

Aug 7 earnings is the trigger. A number confirming the guide raise plus specific commentary on the fine-line AI-substrate order pipeline extends the leg materially; a soft print with muted commentary is the specific setup that would compress the base.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bullish on the €37M China order, the guide-raise potential, and the fine-line AI-substrate moat, and the setup is real — no scaled Western toolmaker for embedded-trace substrates is a specific competitive advantage. The gap the corpus isn't sizing is that specific guide-raise-plus-China-order-conversion has to arrive on schedule.

What to watch: The Aug 7 print — specific guide-raise disclosure, fine-line AI-substrate order pipeline commentary, and gross margin trajectory. Above-consensus guide plus order pipeline extends the leg; a soft print with muted commentary compresses the base.

On the calendar: 2026-08-07 — Q2 earnings

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment6 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15

Schmid Group chatter is bullish. SHMD received a new €37M order from China for advanced equipment, putting backlog at $80M+ and establishing technological moat. SHMD is currently reviewing an upward revision of guidance. Community models EUR 250mn revenue at 25% EBITDA margins = €62.5mn EBITDA - easily a billion-dollar company. No scaled Western toolmaker for embedded-trace substrates except SHMD. Fine-line AI substrates need embedded-trace plating - SHMD moat. Community broadly long.

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What it does

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

German equipment maker for PCB wet processing, photovoltaic cell manufacturing, and glass coating.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Industrial - Machinery sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $SHMD.

Industrial - Machinery · Industrials

No material change from last week — electrical infrastructure for AI power density and robotic warehouse/manufacturing automation are pulling order books in different directions.

What this means for $SHMD

Partial — German equipment maker for PCB wet processing, photovoltaic cell manufacturing, and glass coating; this segment overlaps with the AI power density capex and robotic warehouse automation demand but is not the dominant revenue driver.

Industry benchmark

23-name peer basket
+31.3%YTD
+68.3%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

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

Key ratios

P/E
-2.7How 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
-24.1%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
-14.1%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
0.0%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
2.9Same 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
74.3%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
24.5%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
-1.0Total 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
Q3 2025Dec 26, 2025$-1.64——
Q1 2025Apr 30, 2025$-0.23——
Q3 2023Dec 31, 2023$0.04——
Q1 2023Jun 30, 2023$-0.14——
Next earningsFri, Aug 7

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q4 FY25$49.7M-0.2%35.5%8.6%$-1.40—
Q2 FY25$15.7M-61.1%-10.2%-85.7%$-0.20—
Q4 FY24$32.5M-33.6%20.6%-24.3%$-0.22—
Q2 FY24$14.8M-67.8%19.0%-236%$-0.99$0

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.0.5×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.-27.8%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.-27.5%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 13.7M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today3.9% 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.β-0.295-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

SellJun 18Annedore StreylDirector11 sh$72
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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

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentJul 8SC 13D/A
AI summary

SCHMID Group NV (SHMD) — SC 13D/A (Amendment 5) by Anette Schmid reporting 34,888,004 Class A shares representing approximately 40.25% of SCHMID Group, held with fully shared voting and dispositive power reflecting family-group control. Informational — founder-family group maintaining dominant 40.25% stake; routine amendment with no new transaction.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentMay 26SC 13D/A
AI summary

An amendment to a Schedule 13D for SCHMID Group N.V. discloses an intra-family reorganization in which Christian Schmid contributed approximately 15,320,000 ordinary shares into C. Schmid Beteiligung GmbH & Co. KG, along with 2,500,000 Earn-Out Shares and 1,000,000 warrants plus 1,000,000 transfer-warrants through trustee/nominee arrangements. This transfer of shares into a holding entity is a succession or estate planning reorganization rather than a change in ultimate beneficial ownership. No new external buyers are involved, making this an administrative restructuring of the Schmid family's SCHMID Group stake.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 213
AI summary

Arthur Josef Hermann Schuetz filed an initial Form 3 for SCHMID Group N.V. (SHMD) as of March 18, 2026 — coinciding with SCHMID Group's going-public event — reporting his initial beneficial ownership as a German-based Section 16 insider. Routine compliance filing for the photovoltaic and electronics manufacturing equipment company.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentMay 18SC 13D/A
AI summary

A second amendment to the Schedule 13D for SCHMID Group N.V. provides further details on the family reorganization: Arthur Schmid contributed 4,979,000 shares plus 10,341,000 received from the Erbengemeinschaft (estate group) into C. Schmid Beteiligung GmbH & Co. KG (15,320,000 total), plus 2,500,000 Earn-Out Shares and warrants through trustee structures. This is another filing in the SCHMID family consolidation of its stake into holding entities — no external ownership change, purely internal reorganization of beneficial ownership for the electronic manufacturing equipment company.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentMay 12SC 13D/A
AI summary

Harbour HK Ltd (Hong Kong) filed an amendment to its Schedule 13D for SCHMID Group N.V. (SHMD) reporting beneficial ownership of 10,162,575 Class A Ordinary Shares (19.2% of 52,800,864 shares outstanding, excluding earn-out shares and warrants). The amendment updates Harbour HK's position in the context of the broader SCHMID Group reorganization, which also involves Xinjin Global Industrial Fund LP and a USD 18 million convertible bond. Harbour HK is a significant strategic shareholder in the German-listed electronic manufacturing equipment company.

3/ANew insider — initial holdingsApr 293/A
AI summary

Christian Mathias Schmid filed an amended Form 3/A for SCHMID Group N.V. (SHMD) on March 18, 2026, correcting or supplementing his initial ownership disclosure. The filer is likely a member of the founding Schmid family of the German-origin semiconductor equipment maker. SCHMID Group recently listed in the United States from Germany.

3/ANew insider — initial holdingsApr 293/A
AI summary

Anette Schmid filed an amended Form 3/A for SCHMID Group N.V. (SHMD) on March 18, 2026, correcting or supplementing her initial beneficial ownership disclosure. The filer is likely a member of the founding Schmid family. SCHMID Group manufactures printed circuit board (PCB) and semiconductor equipment.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentApr 22SC 13D/A
AI summary

XJ Harbour HK Ltd filed an amended Schedule 13D/A reporting a 22.6% beneficial ownership stake in SCHMID Group N.V. (SHMD), representing 11,420,271 Class A shares out of 50,603,011 total shares outstanding. This is a substantial strategic block. XJ Harbour is a Hong Kong-based entity and may represent Chinese industrial or financial interests in the German-origin PCB/semiconductor equipment maker.

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Recent news

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

Schmid Stock Surges After The Close: Here's Whybenzinga.com·3d agoSCHMID Group N.V. Provides Second Quarter 2026 Business Update and Full Year 2026 Order Guidance Updateglobenewswire.com·3d agoSCHMID Group Secures Repeat Order Exceeding EUR 37 Million for Advanced HDI-ML and mSAP Equipmentglobenewswire.com·10d agoSCHMID Group N.V. announces a USD 20 million convertible notes financingglobenewswire.com·10d agoSCHMID Group Records More than €26 Million Order Intake since Mid-May, Driven by AI Infrastructure and Optical Module Demandglobenewswire.com·31d ago

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