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NASDAQ · US/China · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

AXTI AXT Inc

InP and GaAs substrates

InP substrate supplier Signed a substrate supply deal with Lumentum as laser makers scramble for indium-phosphide wafers.
Last close (delayed) · 2026-11-12
$43.54
−7.30% today
1W
+18.6%
1M
−29.3%
3M
−46.7%
YTD
+166.3%
1Y
+296.5%
Off 52w high
−69.1%
Next earnings (est.): 2026-10-29
Market cap$2.86B
P/E (trailing)88.9Forward 17.1
EV / sales15.7×EV/EBITDA 61.8×
Revenue (TTM)$171MGrowth 162.6% y/y
Margins44.0%gross · op 19.6%
Free cash flow—Cash $513M · debt $117M
Analyst target$91.50+110.2% upside · 6 analysts · buy
Riskβ 2.01Short 21.3% of float

Fundamentals from public market data, refreshed daily (2026-11-12 22:21 UTC). Figures in reporting currency.

AXTI · price with what management and the data said

Supply tighteningBeat / raiseMiss / cutData releaseEasing Hover a numbered marker for details · dashed lines = 50- and 200-day averages

Timeline: management commentary, data & earnings

9 events
  1. 9
    2026-10-29EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.41 vs 0.31 expected (+33.1% surprise).

  2. 8
    2026-08-11Lumentum FQ4 callSupply tightening

    Lumentum cited a new InP substrate supply agreement with AXT to relieve its laser shortfall. Source ↗

  3. 7
    2026-07-30EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.19 vs 0.07 expected (+163.9% surprise).

  4. 6
    2026-04-30EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS -0.01 vs -0.05 expected (+78.3% surprise).

  5. 5
    2026-02-19EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS -0.05 vs -0.06 expected (+13.8% surprise).

  6. 4
    2025-10-30EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS -0.03 vs -0.12 expected (+74.6% surprise).

  7. 3
    2025-07-31EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS -0.15 vs -0.13 expected (-11.9% surprise).

  8. 2
    2025-05-01EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS -0.19 vs -0.14 expected (-37.7% surprise).

  9. 1
    2025-02-20EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS -0.1 vs -0.04 expected (-138.1% surprise).

Predictions involving AXTI

Earnings history

EPS vs expectations
DateExpected EPSReported EPSSurprise
2026-10-290.310.41+33.1%
2026-07-300.070.19+163.9%
2026-04-30-0.05-0.01+78.3%
2026-02-19-0.06-0.05+13.8%
2025-10-30-0.12-0.03+74.6%
2025-07-31-0.13-0.15−11.9%
2025-05-01-0.14-0.19−37.7%
2025-02-20-0.04-0.1−138.1%
2024-10-31-0.06-0.05+16.7%
2024-08-01-0.05-0.02+56.5%
2024-05-02-0.08-0.03+61.5%
2024-02-22-0.13-0.07+47.0%
2023-11-02-0.11-0.12−5.3%
2023-08-03-0.1-0.1−2.0%
2023-04-27-0.1-0.06+41.2%
2023-02-160.040.05+25.0%
2022-10-270.120.16+36.2%
2022-07-280.10.13+35.4%
2022-04-280.090.07−17.6%
2022-02-160.070.07−3.5%
2021-10-270.110.09−18.2%
2021-07-270.070.1+42.9%
2021-04-280.060.08+33.3%
2021-02-180.030.05+66.7%

About AXT Inc

Website ↗

AXT, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes compound and single element semiconductor substrates. The company provides indium phosphide for use in data center connectivity using light/lasers, high-speed data transfer in data centers, 5G communications, fiber optic lasers and detectors, consumer devices, passive optical networks, silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits, thermo-photovoltaics, RF amplifier and switching, infrared light-emitting diode (LEDS) motion control, lidar for robotics and autonomous vehicles, and infrared thermal imaging. It also offers semi-insulating gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates for use in Wi-Fi and IoT devices, transistors, direct broadcast television, power amplifiers, satellite communications, and solar cells; and semi-conducting GaAs substrates that are used in LEDs, screen displays using micro-LEDs, printer head lasers and LEDs, 3-…

1,541 employees · Fremont, United States

The scarce part of an 800G/1.6T link is often the laser — EML and CW lasers grown on indium-phosphide wafers that few fabs can make at volume.

InP substrate→Epitaxy→EML / CW laser→Module

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if laser ASPs fall sharply while transceiver volumes rise — the choke would have moved.

Small markets with outsized importance: gallium for GaN and InP, germanium for optics, antimony for defence. China has restricted exports.

By-product→Refining→Wafer / alloy→Device

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if Western by-product recovery scales fast enough to erase price premia.

Peers at the same bottleneck

Who else supplies this

StockRoleLast1D1MYTDTrend
LITE
Lumentum
EML and CW lasers for 800G/1.6T $624.6−3.61%−30.3%+69.5%
COHR
Coherent
Lasers, InP capacity and optical transceivers $232.1−1.04%−11.9%+25.7%
IQE.L
IQE
Compound-semiconductor epitaxial wafers 32.75p−2.67%−25.7%+555.0%
UAMY
United States Antimony
US antimony processing $2.91−6.73%+4.3%−42.0%
PPTA
Perpetua Resources
Domestic antimony project $17.82−5.91%+2.5%−26.4%
5713.T
Sumitomo Metal Mining
Battery materials and refining ¥7,367.0−1.14%−22.9%+19.2%
UMI.BR
Umicore
Germanium and specialty materials €18.64+0.49%−10.6%+6.8%

Not investment advice. Prices delayed and in local currency. Quotes in "double quotes" are verbatim as reported by the linked source; other commentary is our paraphrase. Earnings dates are estimates.