Supermicro
Supermicro's revenue rose 77.8% to $39.1 billion in fiscal 2026. Its operating margin was 7.1%, up from 5.7% a year earlier. Free cash flow was −$7.0 billion, against $1.5 billion a year earlier. The diluted share count rose 11.0%.
Operating margin is operating income as a share of revenue. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending. Return on equity is net income as a share of shareholders' equity. Market cap is the last closing share price times the latest diluted share count, so it is approximate. P/E is the last close divided by diluted earnings per share over the last four quarters, or the latest fiscal year where the quarters aren't available; there is none when the company made a loss.
What Supermicro does
Supermicro, based in Silicon Valley, designs and builds servers, storage systems and related equipment for data centers. It calls its offering total information technology (IT) solutions, and it focuses on rack-scale systems for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing. Its customers include enterprise data centers, cloud service providers and edge computing uses such as 5G telecom and retail.
It sells complete servers, storage systems, blade servers, workstations, full racks, networking devices and parts, plus support services that include liquid cooling. In fiscal 2026 it pushed into Data Center Building Block Solutions, a modular offering that ranges from single graphics processors (GPUs) and switches to full racks, site infrastructure, management software and services. Its Server Building Block Solutions use common parts across product lines so it can build new products quickly.
Supermicro sells through its own sales force and through distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers. It runs operations from Silicon Valley, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Netherlands.
Its biggest risks, as it describes them
- Sales concentrated among a few large customers, so losing one could cut revenue sharply.
- Relying on a limited number of suppliers, and on the market for core components such as GPUs.
- Conflicts of interest and heavy reliance on Ablecom and Compuware, companies tied to its executives' families.
- Having previously identified material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting.
- Export limits and supply risk tied to Taiwan, and the pace of change in the AI industry.
Charts show fiscal years, from the 10-K filings.
Revenue and margins
Net income and earnings per share
From fiscal 2017 to 2026, earnings per share grew 43.0% a year and net income 47.6% a year, as new shares raised the share count by 35% and diluted each share's earnings.
Returns on capital
Cash flow
Payouts and share count
Valuation
Two ways to value Supermicro yourself, both starting from its filings: a discounted cash flow model and the price-to-earnings method.
Discounted cash flow (DCF)
A discounted cash flow (DCF) model values a business as the cash it may generate in future, discounted back to today. The starting figures come from Supermicro's 10-K and the assumptions are yours: start from one of three example scenarios, then change any figure to see what it implies for a share, and how that compares with the last share price.
The example scenarios need a positive starting cash flow. Supermicro's free cash flow was negative in fiscal 2026 and over the last three years, and so is cash from operations minus depreciation. You can still enter your own figures in the calculator.
- Last close, October 26, 2026
- $32.69
- Value on these assumptions, against the last close
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- Cash flows in years 1 to 10, valued today
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- Everything after year 10, valued today
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- Plus net cash
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- Share of value from after year 10
How the value changes with two assumptions
Price-to-earnings (P/E) method
Another common way to value a company is to multiply its earnings per share by a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple: the number of years of today's earnings an investor pays for a share. A higher multiple usually means investors expect earnings to grow. Choose a multiple, for example from similar companies, to see the value it gives.
Careful. Supermicro's P/E today, 10.0×, is less than half the example multiple. A gap that wide usually means one of two things: its latest earnings include large one-off items, such as a tax benefit or a gain on a sale, or investors expect its earnings to fall. Either way the examples can mislead, so they aren't set against the share price. Check the earnings in its latest filings before using them.
Value per share on three example scenarios, from Supermicro's earnings per share of $3.26 (in fiscal 2026). Each grows earnings for a year at the cash flow scenarios' rates and applies a multiple to next year's earnings: 22.1×, the middle of Supermicro's own P/E today, its peers' median and its sector's median (its peers' median) for the base scenario, 20% less and more for the cautious and optimistic ones. The price is brought back a year at 10%, 9% and 8%. Select one to load it into the calculator. These are the model's arithmetic on those assumptions, not a forecast or a price target.
- Last close, October 26, 2026
- $32.69
- Value at this multiple, against the last close
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- Supermicro's P/E at the last close
- 10.0×
| Company | Last close | Earnings per share | P/E today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hewlett Packard EnterpriseHPE | $58.72 | $1.93 | 30.4× |
| Dell TechnologiesDELL | $467.09 | $17.20 | 27.2× |
| SandiskSNDK | $1,255.58 | $73.76 | 17.0× |
| HPHPQ | $34.09 | $2.61 | 13.1× |
| SupermicroSMCI | $32.69 | $3.26 | 10.0× |
Balance sheet
| Fiscal year end | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and short-term investments | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 5.2 | 7.5 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net debt (negative means net cash) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net debt to EBITDA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Debt to equity | — | — | — | — | — |
| Interest coverage | 52.3x | 72.5x | 62.6x | 21.0x | 14.2x |
| Current ratio | 1.9x | 2.3x | 3.8x | 5.2x | 3.9x |
| Quick ratio | 0.9x | 1.3x | 2.0x | 3.2x | 2.1x |
Insider trades
Over the 12 months between October 27, 2025 and October 26, 2026, no insider bought Supermicro shares on the open market, and 3 insiders sold $15.7 million, $12.2 million of it under trading plans set up in advance.
| Date | Insider | Trade | Shares | Price | Value | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Liang Chiu-Chu Sara LiuDirector, 10% owner | Sold plan | 100,000 | $45.02 | $4.5 million | Form 4 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Liang Chiu-Chu Sara LiuDirector, 10% owner | Sold plan | 100,000 | $40.00 | $4.0 million | Form 4 |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Liang Chiu-Chu Sara LiuDirector, 10% owner | Sold plan | 100,000 | $37.19 | $3.7 million | Form 4 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Sherman TuanDirector | Sold | 48,630 | $33.00 | $1.6 million | Form 4 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | George KaoSVP, Operations | Sold | 56,904 | $32.83 | $1.9 million | Form 4 |
Piotroski F-score
The F-score counts how many of nine simple tests of profitability, funding and efficiency a company passed in a year (Piotroski, 2000). The more tests passed, the stronger the year: 8 or 9 is strong, 0 to 2 weak. Companies that report no gross profit are scored on the other eight.
| Test | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Cash from operations is positive | Fail | Pass | Fail |
| Return on assets rose | Pass | Fail | Pass |
| Cash from operations exceeds net income | Fail | Pass | Fail |
| Debt fell relative to assets | — | — | — |
| Current ratio rose | Pass | Pass | Fail |
| Share count didn't rise | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| Gross margin rose | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| Revenue rose relative to assets | Pass | Fail | Pass |
| F-score | — | — | — |
| Accruals ratio | 53.9% | −5.1% | 41.1% |
Compare
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| Company | Year | Revenue growth | Operating margin | Free cash flow margin | Return on capital | Net debt to EBITDA | F-score | Compare |
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| Supermicro | FY26 | 77.8% | 7.1% | −17.9% | — | — | — | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | FY25 | 13.8% | −1.3% | 1.8% | −0.9% | 9.0x | 4 | Compare |
| HP | FY25 | 3.2% | 5.7% | 5.1% | 55.3% | 1.5x | 6 | Compare |
| Sandisk | FY26 | 175.3% | 61.2% | 56.8% | 105.9% | −0.4x | 7 | Compare |
| Dell Technologies | FY26 | 18.8% | 7.2% | 7.5% | 36.0% | 1.8x | 7 | Compare |
10 years of figures
| Fiscal year | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| Revenue | 2.5 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 5.2 | 7.1 | 15.0 | 22.0 | 39.1 |
| Revenue growth | 11.7% | 35.2% | 4.2% | −4.6% | 6.5% | 46.1% | 37.1% | 110.4% | 46.6% | 77.8% |
| Gross profit | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 4.2 |
| Research and development | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| Operating income | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.8 |
| Net income | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 2.2 |
| Diluted EPS (US$) | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.21 | 0.53 | 1.14 | 1.92 | 1.68 | 3.26 |
| Diluted shares (millions) | 517 | 522 | 517 | 528 | 535 | 536 | 560 | 602 | 628 | 697 |
| Cash flow | ||||||||||
| Cash from operations | −0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | −0.0 | 0.1 | −0.4 | 0.7 | −2.5 | 1.7 | −6.8 |
| Capital expenditure | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Free cash flow | −0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | −0.1 | 0.1 | −0.5 | 0.6 | −2.6 | 1.5 | −7.0 |
| Dividends paid | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Share buybacks | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Acquisitions | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Stock-based compensation | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Balance sheet at fiscal year end | ||||||||||
| Cash and short-term investments | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 5.2 | 7.5 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total assets | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 9.8 | 14.0 | 29.9 |
| Total liabilities | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 7.7 | 15.5 |
| Shareholders' equity | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 14.5 |
| Margins and ratios | ||||||||||
| Gross margin | 14.1% | 12.8% | 14.2% | 15.8% | 15.0% | 15.4% | 18.0% | 13.8% | 11.1% | 10.8% |
| Operating margin | 3.8% | 2.8% | 2.8% | 2.6% | 3.5% | 6.5% | 10.7% | 8.1% | 5.7% | 7.1% |
| Net margin | 2.7% | 1.4% | 2.0% | 2.5% | 3.1% | 5.5% | 9.0% | 7.7% | 4.8% | 5.7% |
| Free cash flow margin | −5.0% | 1.8% | 6.8% | −2.2% | 1.8% | −9.3% | 8.8% | −17.4% | 7.0% | −17.9% |
| Return on capital | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Return on equity | 9.1% | 5.7% | 8.1% | 8.4% | 10.3% | 22.6% | 37.7% | 31.2% | 17.9% | 21.5% |
| Return on assets | 4.9% | 2.8% | 4.2% | 4.7% | 5.4% | 10.5% | 18.6% | 17.1% | 8.8% | 10.2% |
| Net debt to EBITDA | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |