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Valens Semiconductor Ltd.

$VLN·$225M·Semiconductors·Technology
$1.88-6.9%YTD+37.4%1Y-25.7%
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VLVLN
$VLNValens Semiconductor Ltd.
$1.88-6.93%211 posts+12%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $VLN, 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 numbersWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-07-15

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

HDBaseT semiconductor pure-play with modest growth and new CFO — Aug 12 print sets the AV/automotive trajectory.

Valens Semiconductor makes HDBaseT and A-PHY chipsets for high-speed video and data transmission — AV, automotive, and increasingly USB-C extension applications. It's a specialty semi with modest growth trying to break out of a range.

Where the setup lands:

  • Revenue is essentially flat: Q1 revenue at $17M was basically unchanged year-over-year — after four quarters of 8-25% growth, this stabilization signals the AV and automotive end markets are still bottoming rather than accelerating.
  • The valuation reflects the pre-scale reality: 3.1x sales with 62% gross margin but -48% operating margin — this is a specialty chip company that needs volume to translate design wins into profitability.
  • Recent product wins support the setup: Barco ClickShare USB-C Extension powered by HDBaseT chipsets, plus the recent new CFO appointment (Pinto-Flomenboim) is a signal of internal reset ahead of the next scaling phase.

Aug 12 earnings decides direction: a beat combined with any automotive-design-win commentary and firm Q3 guide would push shares back toward $2.50, while another flat-revenue quarter combined with continued cash burn would confirm the current 20% below-50d position and pull shares toward $1.70.

What to watch: Aug 12 earnings: revenue trajectory, automotive design-win commentary, gross margin trend, and Q3 guide. Another flat-revenue quarter pulls shares toward $1.70.

On the calendar: 2026-08-12 — Q2 2026 earnings

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X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment5 posts analyzed · as of 2026-06-19

Posts almost entirely cover the Villain $VLN wear-to-earn crypto project, with the daily-life-becomes-value thesis driving community building. Authors frame Web1 information to Web2 social to Web3 ownership as the evolution, with the physical-wearing-as-revolution narrative as the bull case.

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What it does

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

Makes HDBaseT chips enabling high-speed AV distribution over cable for enterprise markets and ADAS camera connectivity in vehicles.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — structural AI capex engine unchanged: hyperscaler Blackwell allocation stays tight through 2H26 and HBM3e pricing holds as LLM context-window expansion drives 5-8x per-server memory demand uplift.

What this means for $VLN

Neutral — Makes HDBaseT chips enabling high-speed AV distribution over cable for enterprise markets and ADAS camera connectivity in vehicles; end markets and revenue mix have limited overlap with the AI capex and HBM/compute demand cycle.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor ETF
+62.7%YTD
+110.4%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

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

Key ratios

P/E
-7.0How 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
-31.4%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
-48.2%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
-5.1%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
3.1Same 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
-29.3%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
62.3%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
Q1 2026May 13, 2026$-0.05$-0.06+16.7%
Q4 2025Feb 25, 2026$-0.04$-0.03-33.3%
Q3 2025Nov 12, 2025$-0.04$-0.07+42.9%
Q2 2025Aug 6, 2025$-0.04$-0.03-33.3%
Next earningsWed, Aug 12·consensus EPS $-0.04

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$16.9M+0.2%62.2%-54.7%$-0.08$-5.6M
Q4 FY25$19.4M+16.4%60.5%-48.6%$-0.09$-547K
Q3 FY25$17.3M+8.1%63.0%-46.4%$-0.07$-4.9M
Q2 FY25$17.1M+25.5%63.5%-43.3%$-0.07$-330K

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 2 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$75.6M$75.5M – $75.7M-$0.13-$0.13 – -$0.122
FY27$90.3M$89.9M – $90.7M-$0.08-$0.08 – -$0.072
FY28$105.0M$102.9M – $107.1M-$0.06-$0.06 – -$0.062
FY29$120.0M$119.3M – $120.6M-$0.02-$0.02 – -$0.021

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.0.3×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.35%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.-20.4%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.+10.3%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 74.7M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.0% 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.β1.345-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

SellJul 1Tal YaacobiDirector1.4K sh$3KSellJun 15David ChairmanSVP, R&D4.0K sh$10KSellJun 15Rozenberg Haine YaelVP Finance18.8K sh$44KSellMay 29Yarel - Toledano AdiDirector17.2K sh$61KSellMay 29Amir BoimSVP, Operations and PMO8.5K sh$30KSellMay 28Yarel - Toledano AdiDirector5.1K sh$18KSellMay 28Amir BoimSVP, Operations and PMO1.4K sh$5KSellMay 13David ChairmanSVP, R&D4.0K sh$12KSellMay 13Yarel - Toledano AdiDirector19.2K sh$58KSellMay 8David ChairmanSVP, R&D4.0K sh$10K
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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 holdingsMar 263
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-26, 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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 203
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-20, 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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 203
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-20, 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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 203
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-20, 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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 203
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-20, 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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-18, 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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-18, 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.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VLN on 2026-03-18, 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.

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Recent news

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

Velan Inc.: Announcementglobenewswire.com·23d agoValens Semiconductor Appoints Karine Pinto-Flomenboim as Chief Financial Officerprnewswire.com·23d agoValens Semiconductor's HDBaseT Chipsets Power Barco's ClickShare USB-C Extension Over CAT Kitprnewswire.com·29d agoValens Semiconductor Q1 Earnings Call Highlightsmarketbeat.com·61d agoVelan Inc. (VLN:CA) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcriptseekingalpha.com·61d ago

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