VICOR CORP (VICR) Stock Analysis

Price updated today · SEC data refreshed 2 months ago · Not investment advice

VICOR CORP

VICR Technology Semiconductors📄 SEC filings ↗
Valuation N/A
▾ What's in the 41/100 risk score? (higher = riskier)
Fundamental health (43%) 22/100 → +9.4
leverage 20/100 · FCF trend 25/100 · Altman Z not scored — input unavailable (see Financial Health)
Smart money (short interest + insider buying) (31%) 79/100 → +24.8
Macro backdrop (VIX, curve, credit, fear/greed + week-over-week momentum) (26%) 28/100 → +7.2
Total41/100

Contributions (weight × component score) sum to the total. This near-term score now includes fundamental health (leverage, FCF trend). It excludes the the Altman Z score, whose retained-earnings input this filer does not report separately, which relies on a proxied (estimated) input. See the Financial Health section for the full balance-sheet read.

💵 Price $234.74 · today 📄 Financials SEC EDGAR · refreshed 2 months ago

How to read VICR

We are not publishing an intrinsic value for this one — the section below says exactly why. Everything on this page that comes straight from the filings and the tape is still here; treat the missing valuation as a known gap, not as a verdict on the business.

Where to start — the sections that matter most for this stock
  1. 1 Reported earnings & margins ↓
    What the company actually reported — unaffected by the valuation being held.
  2. 2 Balance sheet & book value ↓
    Assets, liabilities and equity as filed.
  3. 3 Who's selling & betting against it ↓
    Insider and short-interest behaviour needs no valuation model.
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ⓘ A share-count quirk blocked the per-share math

The share count we read for VICR looks wrong — common for multi-class / founder-controlled filers that report shares per share-class. That makes per-share figures (including intrinsic value) misleading, so we suppressed them. The company's total financials below are sound.

What to use instead: Lean on the totals — revenue, net income, cash flow — and the balance sheet. Multi-class share counts are being corrected; once fixed, the per-share valuation returns automatically.

This note is only about the single DCF fair-value number — VICR's full financial statements, health scores, and written analysis are all below.

ⓘ Why does VICR trade at $234.74?

VICOR CORP has 45.5 million shares outstanding. At $234.74 per share, the market values all outstanding VICR equity at $10.7 billion. That's market capitalization, not enterprise value — enterprise value also accounts for debt and cash (VICR carries little or no debt, so the two are close here). The share price by itself tells you almost nothing — a company can pick any share price by splitting or issuing more shares. What matters is the total value (Market Cap?Market Cap — The total dollar value the market is assigning to the entire company.
Why it matters: This is the number that actually matters when comparing companies. Two companies with the same business but different share counts have the same market cap.
Reference: Mega cap >$200B · Large $10–200B · Mid $2–10B · Small $300M–2B · Micro <$300M
Full explanation →
) compared to what the business actually produces. This page values VICR in Per Share?Per Share — A company-level figure divided by total shares — what one share represents.
Why it matters: Per-share metrics are the only way to fairly compare two companies with different share counts.
Full explanation →
economics — what each share represents of the underlying business. Play with the share-price calculator on the homepage →

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Football field: where does the price sit?

Different valuation methods produce different fair-value ranges depending on assumptions. Plotting them together lets you see at a glance whether the current price is reasonable across approaches, or only one specific lens.

EV / Sales (p25→p75)$36$134Current: $234.74$32$86$139$193$246
The current price sits ABOVE the high end of every method. The market is paying a premium to all of these lenses — it expects materially better growth or margins than the models assume.

Industry multiples sourced from: industry: Semiconductors. See the Peer Basket section below for the peer comparison and its limited-comparables caveat.

How does VICR stack up against its closest peers?

We take the 5 same-industry companies most similar to VICR (similar size) and check what investors are paying for each dollar of their revenue (or profits). If VICR is much more expensive on the same yardstick, that's a red flag — unless you have a specific reason it deserves a premium. For a leveraged business, EV/EBIT and FCF yield (both in the table) are usually more reliable than EV/Sales, because revenue multiples ignore differences in margins and debt.

▾ What's "EV / Sales" in plain English?

EV (Enterprise Value) = market cap + total debt − cash. It's "what you'd pay to buy the entire company outright" — you pay the market cap to shareholders and take over their debt, but you keep their cash. EV is fairer than market cap alone because it includes the debt the new owner inherits.

EV / Sales = EV ÷ annual revenue. So "2.5×" means investors pay $2.50 of enterprise value per $1 of yearly sales. Higher = market is paying more per dollar of sales (usually because they expect future growth or fat margins).

p25 / median / p75 are the 25th, 50th (middle), and 75th percentile of the peers' multiples. Half the peers fall between p25 and p75. The median (p50) is the typical peer — that's the benchmark we compare to.

What peers trade at (p25 / median / p75)
EV / Sales?EV / Sales — For every $1 of yearly revenue, this is how many dollars investors pay to own the whole business (including debt).
Why it matters: Works for pre-profit growth companies where P/E and FCF don't apply. The most apples-to-apples cross-company multiple because it ignores accounting choices.
Reference: 1–3x for mature companies · 4–10x for software/SaaS · 10–20x for hypergrowth · >20x is rare and demanding
Full explanation →
2.9x / 9.8x / 18.1x
EV / Gross Profit?EV / Gross Profit — Enterprise value divided by gross profit — the multiple paid for what each dollar of sales contributes after direct costs.
Why it matters: More refined than EV/Sales for high-margin businesses (software, marketplaces) where gross margin is the real economic engine.
Reference: 8–15x for SaaS · 15–25x for hypergrowth software · >30x demanding
Full explanation →
6.3x / 17.0x / 31.8x

Bold middle number = median peer. Half the peers trade above it, half below. Computed over 5 same-industry peers; implausible multiples excluded.

What VICR would be worth at the median peer's multiple
$96.86
If VICR traded at the typical (median) peer's EV/Sales multiple, the share price would be about $96.86.
Plain English: the stock currently trades at $234.74. That's 142.3% MORE than the peer multiple suggests. The market is paying a big premium — VICR looks expensive vs peers. Either the market thinks this stock deserves a premium (faster growth, better margins, brand moat), or it's overpriced.

⚠️ Important caveat: peer multiples only work if the peers are genuinely comparable. Always check the peer list below — if the auto-picker grabbed micro-caps or unrelated businesses, the comparison is noise. A medical-device giant priced against tiny biotech startups won't produce a useful signal.

▾ View peer list (8)
Ticker Company Industry Mcap EV/Sales EV/GP EV/EBIT FCF Yield
VIAV VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. Semiconductors $11.4B 10.5x 18.3x 197.5x 1.2%
QRVO Qorvo, Inc. Semiconductors $9.1B 2.9x 6.3x 25.9x 5.6%
MXL MAXLINEAR, INC Semiconductors $8.3B 18.1x 31.8x 0.2%
SLAB SILICON LABORATORIES INC. Semiconductors $7.2B 9.1x 15.7x 1.7%
SQNS SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS Semiconductors $7.1B 256.6x
SANM SANMINA CORP Semiconductors ·fallback $13.9B 1.7x 19.5x 39.3x 2.9%
RMBS RAMBUS INC Semiconductors ·fallback $15.7B 22.2x 27.9x 60.4x 1.8%
PLXS PLEXUS CORP Semiconductors ·fallback $7.2B 1.8x 17.7x 35.5x 1.7%

Quality & solvency checks

Cheap stocks can be cheap for a reason. These screens warn when a low valuation comes paired with structural fragility.

Altman Z-Score?Altman Z-Score — A bankruptcy-risk score combining 5 financial ratios into one number. Predictive of bankruptcy within 2 years.
Why it matters: Cheap-looking stocks (low P/E or P/B) often have low Z-scores because the market knows the company is dying. Z-score warns you before you fall into a value trap.
Reference: > 3.0 = safe zone · 1.81–3.0 = grey zone · < 1.81 = distress zone
Full explanation →
n/a
Not reliably computable

We can't produce a trustworthy Altman Z here: retained earnings weren't separately reported in our data, so a core input would have to be fabricated. Rather than show a categorical "distress" verdict from an invented number, we mark it unavailable. Judge financial health from the leverage, cash position, and the measurable Piotroski checks instead.

Piotroski F-Score?Piotroski F-Score — A 9-point quality checklist scoring profitability, leverage, and operating efficiency.
Why it matters: High score = fundamentals improving. Low score = deteriorating. Especially powerful for filtering cheap stocks: cheap + high F-score historically outperforms; cheap + low F-score is often a value trap.
Reference: 7–9 = strong · 4–6 = mediocre · 0–3 = weak
Full explanation →
7 / 9
Strong
▾ The checks — what passed, what didn't (and what we couldn't measure)
  • Positive net income
    Net income $118.6M in the latest year.
  • Positive operating cash flow
    Operating cash flow $139.5M (was $50.8M the prior year).
  • Cash flow backs up reported profit
    Operating cash flow $139.5M vs net income $118.6M.
  • Return on assets improving
    Return on assets 15.1% vs 1.0% a year ago.
  • Debt load (vs assets)
    Long-term debt is 0.0% of assets vs 0.0% a year ago ($0.0M now).
  • Short-term liquidity (current ratio)
    Current ratio 8.99x vs 7.49x a year ago.
  • Share count (dilution)
    Share count rose 0.6% (45.2M → 45.5M year-over-year).
    Why this matters: Issuing lots of new shares splits the pie into more pieces, shrinking your slice. Stable or falling share count protects existing owners.
  • Pricing power (gross margin)
    Gross margin 63.6% vs 51.2% a year ago.
  • Sales per asset (asset turnover)
    Asset turnover 0.52x vs 0.56x a year ago.
    Why this matters: Asset turnover measures how much revenue each dollar of assets generates. Rising = more productive use of the asset base.

Missing data is never counted as a pass or a fail — it's shown as n/a and excluded from the denominator. Each check compares the company against its own prior year.

What if you assume different inputs?

Here's where we land — and what happens if you change the assumptions. Drag the sliders to set your own Discount Rate?Discount Rate — The annual return you demand for taking single-stock risk instead of buying a safe Treasury or index fund.
Why it matters: Higher discount rate = stricter valuation (a stock has to produce more cash to be worth holding). Lower = more generous.
Reference: 8–12% is standard · 9–10% matches S&P 500 historical return · Below 7% is illogical for single-stock risk
Full explanation →
(the annual return you demand for single-stock risk) and terminal growth; the value updates live so you can see whether the stock looks cheaper or richer. The discount rate starts at 10.0%, the figure our model used for VICR. Open Advanced to also change beta, growth and the rate path.

Note: no headline intrinsic value is published for this stock (the valuation is held for a data-quality reason — see the notes above). The calculator below is a what-if tool: the values it produces are your assumptions played out, not our estimate.

4.5% (risk-free)9-10% normal18% (deep-risk)
0%2-3% (GDP)5% (rarely sustainable)

A full intrinsic value isn't shown for VICR because the valuation is currently held for a data-quality reason (see the guardrail notes above). The reverse-DCF reading still works — it needs only the price and cash flow — but we won't publish a forward value until the underlying data passes our checks.

For comparison — the revenue growth today's price already assumes

⚙ Advanced — tinker with every input (beta, growth, rate path, margin → full intrinsic value)
Where the discount rate comes from — discount rate = risk-free + beta × equity-risk-premium
What you'd earn risk-free from government bonds — the floor under every other rate. Slide it down to model the market expecting rate cuts (value rises); up for higher-for-longer.
The extra yearly return investors demand for owning stocks instead of safe bonds — the price of risk. History runs ~4.5–6.5%; we default to 5.5% (slightly conservative). It's an estimate, not a law — lower it if you think equities are less risky than that.
Inflation quietly eats returns: a 9% gain at 3% inflation is only ~6% in real purchasing power. The intrinsic value above is already in today's dollars (a nominal DCF cancels inflation out of both growth and the discount rate), so this doesn't change the value — it shows what's left of your return after the tax.
Higher beta → higher discount rate (sets the rate above). 1.0 = moves with the market.
What you think VICR can grow revenue for ~5 years, then fades to terminal.
For a pre-profit company: the % of revenue that eventually becomes free cash flow once mature. (Our published value uses the sector norm.)
All inputs start at the values our model used.

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    Price$234.74
    Model IVNot applicable — DCF couldn't price this stock. See Reverse DCF and Football Field below.

    A standard discounted cash flow?DCF — Discounted Cash Flow — sums up all future cash a business will produce, adjusted for the fact that future dollars are worth less than dollars today.
    Why it matters: It is the most fundamentally honest valuation method when applicable — but only works for companies with predictable, positive cash flow.
    Reference: Best for: mature, profitable businesses. Fails for: pre-profit growth, banks, REITs.
    Full explanation →
    (DCF) valuation is not meaningful for Vicor Corp due to data issues and the market's focus on future potential rather than trailing cash flows, as indicated by the 'Extreme valuation' flag. Investors are likely betting on continued revenue growth and gross margin expansion, which are positive health signals. The primary quantifiable risk is the 'Extreme valuation' flag, suggesting the current price significantly exceeds a basic intrinsic value?Intrinsic Value — Our DCF model's estimate of what each share is mathematically worth based on projected cash flows.
    Why it matters: Compare to current price. Below IV = potentially undervalued. Above IV = priced for growth that must actually happen.
    Reference: Model-derived; quality depends on data and assumptions.
    Full explanation →
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    ⚠️ Price is 16.4x model IV - market may be pricing optionality, narrative catalysts, or margin expansion beyond what trailing cash flows support.

    As of 2 months ago

    Anatomy of a share

    What you're buying per share. Bars are at the same scale so you can see the relative size of revenue, costs, cash flow, and debt — not just read them in a table.

    VICR VICOR CORP stock anatomy showing per-share revenue, operating expenses, free cash flow, and debt
    29.1%
    profit
    Where each $1 of revenue goes
    Net profit — 29.1¢ of every dollar ($2.61/sh — latest fiscal-year net income per share)
    Costs & taxes — 70.9¢ (on $8.97 revenue/sh)
    Net margin = net income ÷ revenue (most recent fiscal year).
    Plain English: $235/share buys $8.97 of revenue per share per year, generates $2.61 of net income per current share, and $2.25 of free cash flow per share. Each share carries $0.00 of debt.
    What's free cash flow / what do these mean?

    Revenue per share — how much the business earns from customers, divided by the number of shares outstanding. Top of the income statement.

    Earnings per share — profit left after operating costs, interest, and taxes, per share. Two versions appear on this page and are not interchangeable: GAAP diluted EPS uses the company's weighted-average diluted share count during the reporting period (this is the "earnings" in "price-to-earnings"); net income per current share divides annual net income by today's share count. They differ whenever the share count has changed.

    Owner-earnings free cash flow per share — the cash the business produces for shareholders. Savng's owner-earnings FCF subtracts capital expenditures and stock-based compensation from operating cash flow (SBC is a real dilution cost even though it's non-cash). This is deliberately more conservative than "standard" FCF, which subtracts only capital expenditures — so our figure is lower than the headline FCF you'll see elsewhere. FCF funds dividends, buybacks, debt repayment, and acquisitions; a company can report positive earnings yet negative FCF.

    Debt per share — total interest-bearing borrowings divided by shares. High debt-per-share next to thin FCF-per-share is a fragility signal.

    What you actually need to decide

    Every stock price is a disagreement. Here's the single thing that must go right for the bulls, the single thing that breaks the thesis, and the concrete signposts to watch so you can update your view as real results arrive.

    🐂 The Bull Case
    For the stock to work, Vicor must continue its gross margin expansion from 49.6% to 63.6% and accelerate revenue growth beyond the current 3.2%/yr to justify its high valuation.
    🐻 The Bear Case
    The biggest fundamental risk is the 'Extreme valuation' flag, implying that if future growth or margin expansion does not materialize as expected, the current price is unsustainable.
    📌 Signposts to watch — update your view as these print
    • Acceleration in quarterly revenue growth rates
    • Further expansion of gross margins
    • New product design wins in key markets

    The trend, in plain numbers (2024 → 2025)

    Straight from the financial statements — no model, no opinion. For a small or unprofitable company, the direction of these numbers usually tells you more than any single valuation.

    ✅ Improving
    • Revenue grew +14% to $407.7M.
    • Free cash flow rose to $102.4M.
    • Gross margin improved to 64% (+12 pts).
    • Net income grew +1,834% to $118.6M.
    ⚠ Worsening

    Nothing clearly worsening year-over-year.

    Management & Leadership

    James A. Ambrose serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Vicor Corp. Dr. Patrizio Vinciarelli is the founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, leading the company for several decades.

    Patrizio Vinciarelli
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
    James A. Ambrose
    Chief Executive Officer

    What They Make

    Vicor Corp designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems. Their products are primarily used by customers in high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and industrial markets.

    End Markets

    High-performance computingEnterprise data centersIndustrial applications

    Revenue Drivers

    High-density power modules
    Power management solutions
    Advanced power systems
    Market Cap: 10.7BBeta: 2.07

    Why Is It Priced Like This?

    Why Customers Pay

    High power density
    Improved power efficiency
    Scalable power solutions
    No discounted-cash-flow value for this filer We aren't publishing a discounted-cash-flow value here: the model's output failed our plausibility checks, so showing it would imply more precision than we have.

    What we use instead: earnings (P/E, EV/EBIT), book value (P/B) — computed from the figures this company does report, shown in the sections below. Those numbers are unaffected by the missing cash-flow data.

    The market is pricing Vicor Corp based on expectations of continued future growth and the potential for margin expansion, rather than current cash flows, as indicated by the 'Price is 16.4x model IV' flag. The company's expanding gross margin (49.6% to 63.6%) and positive net income for the latest period likely contribute to this optimistic outlook, suggesting investors are valuing optionality and narrative catalysts.

    Business Model & Valuation

    How They Make Money

    Sales of modular power components
    Sales of power systems
    Licensing of power conversion technology

    The company funds itself primarily through its positive operating cash flow, which has been positive for 5/5 years, and does not appear to pay a dividend or engage in significant buybacks based on available data.

    Free Cash Flow DCF

    Standard FCF DCF: positive free cash flow in a sector suited for cash-flow-based valuation. FCF negative in 2/5 years.

    Show advanced inputs
    RevenueGrowth3.2%
    EpsGrowth20.0%
    HistoricalFcfGrowth90.6%
    SectorDefault12.0%
    BestEstimate5.8%
    Methodblend(70% revenue_cagr, 30% sector)
    GrowthBasistotal

    What this model does NOT do: this is a consolidated owner-earnings FCF model. Standalone segment assumptions: none. It does not project product, services and recurring/cloud lines independently; their combined effect is embedded in the historical revenue and cash-flow trend the model extrapolates. The calculator above can only approximate a segment's impact through the single consolidated growth rate — it cannot model any one line separately. For a true segment-level view, build a separate model from the company's segment disclosures.

    Maturity & Competitive Position

    Growth stage

    Moat Signals

    Proprietary power conversion technology
    High-density power solutions
    Strong R&D investment

    Revenue has been growing at 3.2% per year over the last four years, from $359M to $408M.

    Geography & Markets

    Vicor Corp is headquartered in the US and operates globally, serving customers across various international markets, though specific geographic revenue mix percentages are not available from current data sources.

    Geographic Risks

    Reliance on high-growth technology markets, which can be volatile
    Intense competition in the power component industry

    Market Signals

    These are timing signals, not value signals — they describe the stock's recent price behavior, not what the business is worth. Use them for the "the thesis looks good, but is now the moment?" question. Each tile below explains what it's saying.

    Model neutral, tape bullish
    RSI?RSI — Relative Strength Index — a 0-100 momentum gauge. Above 70 = overbought; below 30 = oversold.
    Why it matters: Short-term contrarian indicator. Extreme readings often precede mean reversion, though not always.
    Reference: 30–70 normal · >70 overbought · <30 oversold
    Full explanation →
    (14)
    64.6NeutralMomentum is balanced — neither overbought nor oversold.
    MACD?MACD — Moving Average Convergence Divergence — compares a fast and a slow price trend to gauge momentum direction.
    Why it matters: When the fast line crosses above the slow line, short-term momentum is turning up; below, turning down. A timing cue, not a value signal.
    Reference: Line above signal = bullish momentum · below = bearish
    Full explanation →
    BullishLine above signalThe fast trend is above the slow trend — short-term momentum is currently upward.
    50-Day Average$234.08Price above (+0.3%)Price above its 50-day average = near-term uptrend.
    200-Day Average$137.19Price aboveThe 200-day line is the long-term trend divider — above it is generally considered a bull market for the stock.
    50 vs 200 CrossGolden50-day above 200-dayA "golden cross" — the medium trend has overtaken the long trend (often read as bullish).

    Technicals describe price, not the business. A great company can have a "bearish" tape (a buying chance) and a weak one a "bullish" tape (a trap). Pair these with the valuation and health sections above.

    Data Quality & Risk Flags (3 notes — click to expand/collapse)

    Guardrail Notes (3)
    • Price is 16.4x model IV - market may be pricing optionality, narrative catalysts, or margin expansion beyond what trailing cash flows support.
    • Extreme valuation (P/IV 16.4440x, IV $20.36 vs price $334.84); output dominated by data/units issue (often a multi-class share-count mismatch). Suppressed.
    • DATA UNAVAILABLE: per-share values suppressed due to missing/unreliable shares data.

    Financial Statements (5-year tables — click to expand)

    From VICOR CORP's SEC filings (EDGAR).

    Income (5yr)

    YearRevenueNet IncomeEPS
    2025407.7M118.6M$2.61
    2024359.1M6.1M$0.14
    2023405.1M53.6M$1.19
    2022399.1M25.4M$0.57
    2021359.4M56.6M$1.26

    Cash Flow (5yr)

    YearOperating CFCapEx− SBC & adj.Free Cash Flow
    2025 139.5M 20.3M 16.8M 102.4M
    2024 50.8M 23.6M 15.3M 11.9M
    2023 74.5M 33.5M 12.9M 28.2M
    2022 22.9M 64.0M 10.3M -51.3M
    2021 54.4M 47.8M 7.0M -352,000

    How we define FCF: operating cash flow − capital expenditure − stock-based compensation (owner-earnings basis — SBC is a real cost to shareholders even though it's non-cash). Latest year: 139.5M − 20.3M − 16.8M (SBC & adj.) = 102.4M. This is the same owner-earnings FCF definition the valuation model uses.

    Balance Sheet

    Total Assets785.8M
    Total Liabilities74.0M
    Equity711.6M

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    Methodology by Pouyan Golshani, MD — founder of Gighz. Savng was built by a physician for busy professionals: every number on this page comes from SEC filings (EDGAR) and FINRA data through transparent, rules-based models — no analyst opinions, no hidden inputs. How we calculate every number →
    ⚠️ Not investment advice. Automated model outputs, last refreshed May 30, 2026 (the analysis-refresh date, not the latest filing period). All models have blind spots. Full disclaimer →
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