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Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
MPWR NASDAQMonolithic Power Systems, Inc. is a semiconductor company specializing in analog and mixed-signal power management solutions. The firm designs, develops, and markets integrated power semiconductor devices and power delivery architectures that manage and convert electrical power in electronic systems. Its products are used across computing and storage, automotive, industrial, communications, and consumer markets, supporting applications such as cloud and data center infrastructure, telecom equipment, automotive electronics, factory automation, and a broad range of consumer devices. Monolithic Power Systems emphasizes highly integrated, energy-efficient, and easy-to-use power management solutions, often delivered through a fabless manufacturing model that leverages third-party foundries. The company plays a notable role in enabling reliable, compact, and efficient power delivery in complex electronic designs, making it an important supplier to global electronics manufacturers. Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 12.86
Total Equity: $3.53B
Shares: 48,309,000
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.10B
EBITDA: $781.15M
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.10B
Revenue: $2.79B
Revenue: $2.79B
Revenue: $2.79B
Total Equity: $3.53B
Tax Rate: 18.9%
Equity: $3.53B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.10B
Current Liabilities: $369.37M
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $0.00
Total Equity: $3.53B
Shares: 48,309,000
Shares: 48,309,000
CapEx: -$172.01M
Shares: 48,309,000
Stock Price: $1,316
Net Income: $621.48M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 7:22pm (24d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.2B | $1.8B | $1.8B | $2.2B | $2.8B |
| Cost of Revenue | $522.3M | $745.6M | $800.0M | $986.2M | $1.3B |
| Gross Profit | $685.5M | $1.0B | $1.0B | $1.2B | $1.5B |
| Operating Expenses | $423.0M | $521.8M | $539.4M | $681.5M | $811.1M |
| Operating Income | $262.4M | $526.8M | $481.7M | $539.4M | $728.6M |
| Net Income | $242.0M | $437.7M | $427.4M | $1.8B | $621.5M |
| EBITDA | $291.1M | $563.9M | $521.9M | $575.8M | $781.1M |
| EPS | $5.28 | $9.37 | $8.98 | $36.76 | $12.94 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $5.05 | $9.05 | $8.76 | $36.59 | $12.86 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 6:55pm (24d ago)| Metric | 2024 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $691.8M | $637.4M | $787.4M | $1.1B | $1.1B |
| Total Current Assets | $1.6B | $1.8B | $1.9B | $2.1B | $2.2B |
| Total Assets | $3.6B | $3.7B | $3.9B | $4.1B | $4.2B |
| Current Liabilities | $294.6M | $363.4M | $383.5M | $442.8M | $369.4M |
| Long-Term Debt | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Liabilities | $471.3M | $631.5M | $662.3M | $729.9M | $662.7M |
| Total Equity | $3.1B | $3.1B | $3.2B | $3.4B | $3.5B |
| Retained Earnings | $2.5B | $2.4B | $2.4B | $2.5B | $2.6B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 7:22pm (24d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $320.0M | $246.7M | $638.2M | $788.4M | $838.2M |
| Capital Expenditure | -$94.4M | -$58.8M | -$57.6M | -$146.1M | -$172.0M |
| Free Cash Flow | $225.6M | $187.8M | $580.6M | $642.3M | $666.2M |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | $0 | $0 | -$33.3M | $0 |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | -$109.4M | -$138.0M | -$185.8M | -$240.6M | -$284.8M |
| Stock Buybacks | $0 | $0 | -$3.7M | -$636.2M | -$6.6M |
| Net Change in Cash | -$145.7M | $99.3M | $272.5M | $130.8M | $407.6M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 7:22pm (24d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +48.5% | +1.5% | +21.2% | +26.4% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +53.0% | -2.6% | +19.6% | +26.1% |
| Operating Income Growth | +100.7% | -8.6% | +12.0% | +35.1% |
| Net Income Growth | +80.8% | -2.4% | +318.1% | -65.2% |
| EBITDA Growth | +93.7% | -7.4% | +10.3% | +35.7% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Jul 23, 2026 7:32pm (31d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | $2.00 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-31 | $2.00 | — | — | — |
| 2025-12-31 | $1.56 | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-30 | $1.56 | — | — | — |
| 2025-06-30 | $1.56 | — | — | — |
| 2025-03-31 | $1.56 | — | — | — |
| 2024-12-31 | $1.25 | — | — | — |
| 2024-09-30 | $1.25 | — | — | — |
| 2024-06-28 | $1.25 | — | — | — |
| 2024-03-27 | $1.25 | — | — | — |
| 2023-12-28 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-28 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2023-06-29 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2023-03-30 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2022-12-29 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-29 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2022-06-29 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-30 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2021-12-30 | $0.60 | — | — | — |
| 2021-09-29 | $0.60 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — if the last quarter repeats
Live · as of 2026-08-19 09:15Even the bull case prices 75% below today — the ratio here measures the model-vs-market gap, not payoff odds. Another quarter like the worst recent one costs 87%.
| Case | Growth | Margin | Fair value | vs price ($1,316.18) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull — recovery | +38% | 28.2% | $327.32 | -75% |
| Base — stabilizes | +25% | 24.5% | $206.28 | -84% |
| Bear — keeps slipping | +13% | 20.8% | $125.90 | -90% |
| Stress — last quarter repeats | +19% | 24.5% | $172.20 | -87% |
Narrative Economics
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Claude Reading
The raw numbers first: MPWR is putting up a genuinely impressive quarterly trajectory — $507M → $620M → $621M → $638M → $665M → $737M → $751M → $804M sequential quarters, with the most recent Q at +26% YoY and +7% QoQ. Net margins have re-expanded from 19.8% to 24%. Gross margin sits at 55%, operating margin 26%, and the balance sheet carries zero debt against $1.1B cash and $3.5B equity. FCF of $666M on $2.79B revenue is a 24% FCF margin. The 2024-Q4 "$1.45B net income" is a tax/deferred-tax artifact, not operations — ignore it and the 233% margin. This is not a narrative_platform; the rule-based classifier is wrong. MPWR is a highly profitable, cash-generative fabless analog semi with real earnings. The pre-flight override to "traditional" is correct, and the anomaly warnings telling me to discount P/E and ROE because it's a "narrative platform" should be disregarded — those metrics *are* meaningful here.
That said, the valuation math is brutal regardless of classification. $64.7B market cap on $2.79B TTM revenue and ~$700M in NI (normalizing out the 2024 tax benefit) is ~23x sales and ~90x normalized earnings. Even annualizing the Q1'26 run-rate ($804M × 4 = $3.2B revenue, ~$770M NI), you're at 20x forward sales and 84x forward earnings. For an analog semi vendor — even a best-in-class one — this is priced for sustained 25%+ growth and margin expansion for years. FCF CAGR of only 7.1% while revenue CAGR is 23.8% is a yellow flag: capex is climbing ($172M), working capital is absorbing cash, and FCF is not scaling with the top line. That gap matters — it suggests either inventory build ahead of demand or that the AI-cycle revenue is less capital-light than the narrative implies.
The prior models converge on "priced for perfection / neutral / wait" and I agree with the direction but think they're slightly too generous on the bull case durability. The narrative layer nails it: ~70% of price is story premium. The contrarian argument that isn't getting enough weight: analog power management is historically cyclical, and MPWR's customer concentration in AI/data-center is the same concentration that killed the SiC names (WOLF, ON's SiC segment) when hyperscaler orders paused. TI and Infineon are not sitting still — TI's $30B+ capex program explicitly targets analog share recapture, and they can subsidize price. The revenue confidence signal flags "decelerating quarterly trend," which is true on a QoQ basis (26% → 11% → 4% → 4% → 11% → 2% → 7%) — nothing catastrophic, but not the smooth 25%+ compounder the multiple demands. Insider selling on 2026-07-15 (ten separate sales same day) looks like scheduled 10b5-1 activity, not a smoking gun, but there is zero insider buying anywhere in the file.
Where I'd push back on the models: the "traditional" classification should drive the fair-value math more explicitly. Apply a generous but defensible 30x forward earnings (roughly ADI/TXN premium territory for a faster grower) to a normalized $850M forward NI and you get ~$25B market cap, or roughly $510/share. Even at a lush 40x — treating MPWR as a premier growth compounder — you get ~$680. To justify $1,316, you need ~78x forward earnings held indefinitely, which requires the bull-case AI narrative to be *right and durable* through the next capex digestion cycle. I don't think 25%+ growth survives a hyperscaler pause. I dissent slightly from the "neutral / wait" framing because "wait" understates how far the stock has to fall to become interesting — this isn't a 15-20% overvaluation, it's a 2-2.5x overvaluation on any traditional semi framework. The synthesis calls it "priced for perfection"; I'd call it "priced for a perfection that history says analog semis don't deliver."
GPT Reading
MPWR is a superb business and, at this price, a bad stock. The operating data are genuinely strong: quarterly revenue has gone from $507.4M in June 2024 to $804.2M in March 2026, a 58% increase in seven quarters, and the latest quarter was up 26.1% year over year from $637.6M. Annual revenue rose from $2.21B in 2024 to $2.79B in 2025, up 26%, while gross margin held at a very healthy 55.2% and operating margin improved to 26.1%. This is not a hype-only company; it has $1.10B of cash, no debt, generated $838.2M of operating cash flow and $666.2M of free cash flow in 2025, and earns high returns on capital. The core story the numbers tell is that MPWR is taking share in attractive power-management niches and converting that into real cash without balance-sheet risk.
What stands out, though, is that the valuation already assumes years of near-flawless execution. At $64.7B market cap, investors are paying 22.8x sales, 82x EV/EBITDA, and 102x earnings on 2025 numbers for a semiconductor company with 26% revenue growth and low-20s net margins. Even if I annualize the March 2026 quarter, I only get a revenue run rate of roughly $3.2B and net income run rate of about $773M; that still implies around 20x sales and roughly 84x earnings. Those are software-like multiples on a fabless analog chip company. The quarterly progression is good but not explosive: revenue stepped from $620.1M in Sep-2024 to $621.7M in Dec-2024, then $637.6M, $664.6M, $737.2M, $751.2M, and $804.2M. That's healthy acceleration, but nowhere near enough to justify a price that effectively discounts a multi-year AI supercycle with no digestion, no pricing pressure, and no cyclical reset.
There is also noise in the earnings series that should make investors more conservative, not less. The 2024 annual net income of $1.79B is clearly distorted by the anomalous $1.45B quarter in December 2024, so any screen showing low trailing P/E on that period would be misleading. On more normalized numbers, MPWR earned $621.5M in 2025 and margins ran around 20-24% in most quarters. That is excellent profitability, but not the sort of margin structure that can absorb a valuation miss. If revenue growth slips from the current 26% area toward the mid-teens — still a very respectable result for analog semis — the stock has a long way to fall before the multiple resembles something supportable by fundamentals. Heavy insider selling, even without amounts disclosed in dollars here, reinforces that management and insiders may view current levels as an opportunity to de-risk rather than accumulate.
The best argument against my bearish read is straightforward: MPWR may be one of the few analog names that deserves to break historical valuation frameworks because its content opportunity in AI power delivery could be much larger than backward-looking financials capture. The March 2026 quarter posted 24% net margin on $804.2M of revenue, versus 21.2% on $637.6M a year earlier, so there is evidence of operating leverage. If the company can sustain 25%+ growth from a $3B base while keeping gross margin around 55% and free cash flow conversion strong, today's multiple can compress through earnings growth rather than price decline. A debt-free balance sheet and 24.3% ROIC also mean this is a quality compounder, not a promotional story stock. I weigh that case less heavily because the stock is not merely expensive; it is priced as if those assumptions are the base case rather than the upside case.
What would change my mind is not another good quarter; it would take evidence that the growth curve is steepening enough to outrun the valuation. Specifically, I would need to see revenue move decisively above a $1.0B quarterly run rate within the next few quarters, with net margins sustaining at or above 25% and annual free cash flow pushing toward or beyond $1.0B. Short of that, a better entry would do the work: if the shares fell into the $850-$950 range without operational deterioration, the setup would become much more compelling because the multiple would begin to match even a bullish-but-not-fantastical growth path.
Grok Reading
Monolithic Power is executing: quarterly revenue has climbed from $507M in mid-2024 to $804M in the March 2026 quarter, a clean stair-step that produces a 26% recent year-over-year print and a five-year revenue CAGR near 24%. Annual sales hit $2.79B in 2025 with a 55% gross margin, 26% operating margin and $666M of free cash flow after only $172M of capex. The balance sheet is fortress-grade—$1.1B cash, zero debt, current ratio nearly 5×—and ROIC sits at a respectable 24%. Those are the numbers of a high-quality analog franchise that has genuinely won design sockets in high-density power delivery. Yet the market is paying $65B, or 23× sales and 102× trailing earnings, for that franchise. Strip out the 2024 one-time $1.45B net-income spike that produced a nonsensical 233% quarterly margin, and normalized earnings power is roughly $620M; even giving the company another year of 25% top-line growth and modest margin expansion leaves forward earnings still priced at roughly 70–80×. Free-cash-flow CAGR of only 7% over the same period that revenue compounded at 24% further undercuts the idea that operating leverage is compounding as aggressively as the multiple implies. The stock is therefore a pure duration bet on multi-year AI power-content growth remaining above 25% with no competitive encroachment and no cyclical air-pocket—an assumption the 70% narrative premium embedded in the price makes explicit.
The prior models correctly flag “priced for perfection” and an unanchored AI-infrastructure story, but they still under-weight how completely the valuation has detached from semiconductor history. Analog names with similar gross margins and sticky design wins have rarely sustained mid-20s revenue growth for more than a couple of years once the initial design-win wave matures; TI and Infineon are already competing on integration and price in the same sockets. Insider activity reinforces the caution: ten open-market sales clustered on a single July 2026 date with zero purchases. Revenue growth is already flagged as decelerating. At 82× EV/EBITDA the market is not merely optimistic—it is assuming the current trajectory is structural rather than cyclical.
The strongest contrary case is straightforward and data-backed. Sequential revenue acceleration into 2026 ($665M → $737M → $751M → $804M) plus net-margin expansion from the low-20s into the mid-24% range shows real operating leverage kicking in exactly where the AI power-density narrative predicts. Zero leverage and $666M of annual FCF give management permanent optionality to defend share or buy back stock. If data-center GPU racks continue to double power draw every generation, MPWR’s content per system can grow faster than unit volumes, potentially justifying a longer runway of 25%+ growth than skeptics allow. A smart bull would also note that the 2024 earnings base is distorted downward by the one-time item’s reverse comparison, so the –65% earnings “decline” is noise; clean earnings are compounding in the low-20s. Those points are real. I simply weigh them as already more than fully discounted at 23× sales: the bull case has to arrive on schedule for five-plus years with almost no slippage, or the multiple collapses.
I would flip to neutral or constructive only if the next two reported quarters show re-acceleration above 30% year-over-year revenue growth together with operating margin pushing through 28%, or if the shares corrected 35–40% into the $800–850 zone where forward earnings multiple compresses into the mid-40s on still-growing numbers. Until one of those two things happens, the asymmetry is unfavorable.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Revenue has compounded from $1.21B (2021) to $2.79B (2025), a ~23% CAGR, with gross margins parked in a 55-58% band and operating margins holding 24-29% through a cyclical semi downturn in 2023. Free cash flow scaled from $225.6M to $666.2M and net cash sits at $1.26B with zero debt drag; Altman Z of 61 and OCF/NI of 1.03x confirm the earnings are cash-backed and the balance sheet is essentially indestructible. Accruals at 3.3% of assets and a Beneish M of -2.63 show no manipulation footprints. The 2024 net income spike to $1.79B looks like a discrete tax/one-time item (FCF was only $642M that year and 2025 NI normalized to $621M) - worth verifying but not a quality concern given cash generation stayed on trend. Diluted share count barely moved (47.9M to 48.3M over five years, 0.2% CAGR), and SBC at 8.2% of revenue is reasonable for a fabless analog designer, though buybacks recover only ~75% of SBC so shareholders are absorbing modest net dilution. Insider selling ($188M across 58 sales, zero buys) is heavy in absolute terms but common for a stock that has appreciated massively; the tape shows programmatic-looking slices by Sciammas rather than a rush for the exit. The business fundamentals - durable analog/power IC franchise, expanding into AI power delivery, high-teens/20s operating margins, self-funding growth - point to a top-decile operator.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Reconcile 2024 net income of $1.79B (likely a discrete tax benefit or gain) against the $642M FCF that year
- Customer concentration disclosure - historically MPWR has had meaningful exposure to a few hyperscaler/enterprise customers
- AI/data-center power delivery revenue mix and any commentary on NVIDIA-related design-win status given prior noise on this topic
- Whether recent insider sales are under 10b5-1 plans or discretionary
- SBC trajectory and dilution offset commitments in the buyback authorization
MPWR is a genuinely elite analog franchise (Fortress, 81), but the e2e synthesis itself flags 'Priced for Perfection' at $1,316. On roughly $2.2B TTM revenue and low-single-digit-billion earnings power, a $64.7B market cap implies a mid-to-high 40s P/E and ~30x sales, which requires sustained 20%+ growth and margin expansion for years. That is plausible given AI power-management tailwinds, but it is the base case already discounted into the tape, not the upside.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Forward revenue guidance and enterprise/data-center mix disclosure
- Any signs of gross margin compression from competitive pricing
- Customer concentration updates (NVIDIA-related exposure) in 10-Q
- Inventory and channel days to detect early cycle rollover
MPWR just printed a Q2 beat (+47.6% YoY revenue, +10.5% EPS surprise) with next-quarter guide above the Street, and the stock jumped 10.5% on the print. That is a direct, name-specific refuel of the platform-monopoly narrative (AI power backbone, edge, autonomous) with strong intensity and medium cult following. The story is doing the heavy lifting here, and the tape reaction confirms buyers are still leaning in on AI-infrastructure winners that actually deliver. Working against it: the macro backdrop is stress (VIX 20.7, S&P off highs), and with a 1.71 beta MPWR is exactly the profile that gets whipped in risk-off days - evidenced by the July 29 semi sell-off tied to China competition and AI-demand sustainability fears. The bear frame (80x forward PE, 60% implied growth, commoditization risk from TI/Infineon) is a real overhang that limits how far this rip can extend without follow-through. Net: fresh, name-specific tailwind from earnings and narrative reinforcement outweighs the macro/high-beta drag, but this is not a slam-dunk given the tape and the multiple.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Post-earnings analyst target revisions over next 5-10 days - magnitude and breadth of upgrades
- Hyperscaler capex commentary from MSFT/META/GOOG/AMZN prints to confirm or crack the AI-power demand story
- Whether the semi sector holds relative strength vs SPX in the next risk-off session - the tell on cohort de-rating
- China competitive commentary from TI/Infineon prints; any share-loss datapoint would hit the bull thesis directly
- VIX path - a move back under 17 unlocks more upside; a spike over 25 overwhelms name-specific tailwinds
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When we made this prediction on Jul 31, 2026, MPWR was $1,316.18. We expect it to be $1,210.00 by Jan 2027, and we consider it great value under $950.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Jul 31, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.