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Cohu COHU
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 35% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate.
Worth knowing
- Down 36% from its 52-week high while revenue grew 34%
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- $16.28−66%
- Market Value
- forming
- Off 52-wk high
- −35%
- Risk vs market
- Highbeta 2.94
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Dip: business intact
The price is 35% below its 52-week high (Jun 30), but the business held up: revenue +18.3%, revenue growth rate +10.9 pts, free cash flow +39.1%.
Some numbers held up (revenue +18.3%, revenue growth rate +10.9 pts, free cash flow +39.1%), others slipped (shares outstanding more shares, each owns less). The price is 35% below its 52-week high.
The price is 35% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too: shares outstanding more shares, each owns less.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
The evidence 9 numbers, high vs now
- Revenue, last 12 months$481M → $569M (+18.3%)held up
- Revenue growth rate+23.1% → +34.0% a year (+10.9 pts)held up
- Free cash flow, 12 months$40M → $56M (+39.1%)held up
- Operating margin−11.1% → −2.4% (+8.8 pts)held up
- Shares outstanding+15.7% (more shares, each owns less)changed
- Net cash (cash minus debt)+0.5% of market cap since the highheld up
- Stock vs its sector (Industrials)stock −35%, sector median −9% since Jun 30changed
- Price fall vs business numbersprice −35%, revenue/EPS/FCF median +29% (shown, not scored)
- Valuation multipleP/FCF 86.5× at the high → 47.1× now (shown, not scored)
Business numbers as reported at the high (12 months to Mar 28, 2026) vs the latest filing (12 months to Sep 26, 2026). Each measure is scored from −1 (business changed) to +1 (business intact) and weighted: revenue, earnings per share, free cash flow, operating margin, revenue growth rate, share count, net cash and the move vs its sector. 60 or more reads as a dip, 40 or less as a repricing. Analyst estimates are not in our data, so they are not used. How to read it
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($73.91, Jun 30) the price assumed about 35%/yr free-cash-flow growth; today about 23%. The last 3 years delivered −52%/yr (free cash flow).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, −52%/yr (free cash flow)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $73.91Jun 30 | $21.38Nov 17 | $48.37 |
| Implied growth | +35% | n/a | +23% |
| P/FCF | 86.5× | — | 47.1× |
| EV/Sales | 6.8× | 1.9× | 4.3× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, COHU’s free cash flow would need to grow about 23% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much COHU moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings much more than the market, and its own price swings are 5.6× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 2.94
- Volatility
- 71% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.53
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.67
How it ranks
Where COHU stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 1 of 6 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate66% · price above our base caseLowest 5%of 1,314
- Free cash flow yield2.1% · free cash flow vs market capLowest 28%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield0% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capLowest 1%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+34% · vs the 12 months beforeTop 13%of 1,814
- Operating margin−2.4% · of sales kept as operating profitLowest 10%of 1,288
- Return on invested capital−1.8% · profit per dollar of capitalLowest 7%of 838
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $16.28 · FCF value $31.55
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew -17.7% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $1.03 a share (trailing 12 months to Sep 26, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 29, 2026. Net cash $206M, not added.
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
GrowthSales grew 34% to $569M over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
Balance sheetNet cash of $206M: cash and short-term investments exceed debt (Sep 26, 2026).
Balance sheetDebt / equity of 0.4×, below the 0.6× median for the 198 Industrials companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $16.28, 66% below the price.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to −15.4% in FY2025 from 6.8% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only -2.0× over the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityLost $23M over the last 12 months (net income, SEC filings).
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
All fundamentals
FCF yield 2.1% · ROE -3% · Sales +34%
Valuation
- P/E
- n/aloss over the last 12 months
- Price / FCF
- 47.1×
- FCF yield
- 2.1%
- EV / EBITDA
- 86.2×
- Price / sales
- 4.62×
- Price / book
- 3.32×
- Market cap
- $2.6Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $2.4B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $569M
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +34.0%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −17.7%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- −$0.48
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- −$23M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- −2.4%
- Net margin
- −4.0%
- FCF margin
- 9.8%
- Return on equity
- −3%
- Return on invested capital
- −2%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $508M
- Total debt
- $302M
- Net cash
- $206M
- Debt / equity
- 0.38×
- Interest coverage
- -2.0×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $56M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- n/ano dividend payments tagged
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $0
- Share count, 1 year
- +16.3%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $23M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 26, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 26, 2026. From Cohu’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.1B · Sales +37%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.1B
- Free-cash-flow yield2.1%
- Gross margin44%
- Operating margin8%
- Return on invested capital6%
- Return on equity−3%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+37%
- Net debt / EBITDA−5.4×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $48.37
- Fair value est.base case$16.28−66.3%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$21.38−55.8%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$48.37you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$73.91+52.8%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 38 · 5 days −1.0%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
COHU is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Cohu in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Industrials
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.