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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) · 2026-10-26
$57.20
+9.83% today
1W
+0.7%
1M
−27.5%
3M
+33.8%
YTD
+249.8%
1Y
+843.9%
Off 52w high
−59.4%
Next earnings (est.): 2026-10-29
Market cap$3.42B
P/E (trailing)1302.0Forward 23.1
EV / sales24.4×EV/EBITDA 227.7×
Revenue (TTM)$126MGrowth 164.8% y/y
Margins32.2%gross · op 21.9%
Free cash flow-$44.42MCash $417M · debt $102M
Analyst target$91.60+60.1% upside · 5 analysts · none
Riskβ 1.86Short 17.2% of float

Fundamentals from public market data, refreshed daily (2026-10-24 02:59 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
    2026-08-11Lumentum FQ4 callSupply tightening

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

  2. 8
    2026-07-30EarningsBeat / raise

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

  3. 7
    2026-04-30EarningsBeat / raise

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

  4. 6
    2026-02-19EarningsBeat / raise

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

  5. 5
    2025-10-30EarningsBeat / raise

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

  6. 4
    2025-07-31EarningsMiss / cut

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

  7. 3
    2025-05-01EarningsMiss / cut

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

  8. 2
    2025-02-20EarningsMiss / cut

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

  9. 1
    2024-10-31EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS -0.05 vs -0.06 expected (+16.7% surprise).

Predictions involving AXTI

Earnings history

EPS vs expectations
DateExpected EPSReported EPSSurprise
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%
2020-10-28—0.02—

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 $834.8+10.40%−11.3%+126.5%
COHR
Coherent
Lasers, InP capacity and optical transceivers $224.3+7.18%−24.2%+21.5%
IQE.L
IQE
Compound-semiconductor epitaxial wafers 34.75p−1.70%−25.1%+595.0%
UAMY
United States Antimony
US antimony processing $2.95−3.59%−34.4%−41.2%
PPTA
Perpetua Resources
Domestic antimony project $16.86+2.52%−28.2%−30.4%
5713.T
Sumitomo Metal Mining
Battery materials and refining ¥8,077.0+0.95%−14.4%+30.7%
UMI.BR
Umicore
Germanium and specialty materials €17.66+2.56%−17.5%+1.2%

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.