MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY NASDAQ: MCHP
Background of Microchip Technology
- Microchip Technology Inc is a publicly listed American corporation that develops and manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analogue, and Flash-IP integrated circuits.
- Microchip Technology Inc has its corporate headquarters in Chandler, Arizona, its wafer fabs are in Tempe, Arizona, Gresham, Oregon, and Colorado Springs in Colorado and its assembly and test facilities are based in Chachoengsao, Thailand, and Calamba and Cabuyao in the Philippines.
- Microchip Technology Inc oversees a high value product portfolio that includes microcontrollers (PIC, dsPIC, AVR and SAM), Serial EEPROM devices, Serial SRAM devices, embedded security devices, radio frequency (RF) devices, thermal, power and battery management analogue devices, as well as linear, interface and wireless solutions.
- Microchip Technology Inc has a rich history that dates to 1987 when the company was founded with General Instrument spinning off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary.
- The newly formed company became the supplier of programmable non-volatile memory, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, card chip on board, and consumer integrated circuits.
- Microchip Technology Inc became an independent company in 1989 when it was acquired by a group of venture capitalists led by Sequoia Capital.
- In the same year, Microchip Technology Inc announced the release of small, inexpensive 8-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microcontrollers while most RISC microcontrollers were 32-bit devices selling for hundreds of dollars.
- Microchip Technology conducted an IPO in 1993, which Fortune magazine cited as the best performing IPO of the year with a stock appreciation of 500% and over $1 billion in market capitalization.
- Microchip Technology Inc purchased 17 semiconductor manufacturers from 2007 through 2017.
- At the end of 2015, Microchip Technology Inc posted its 100th consecutive quarter of profitability.
- Today, Microchip Technology Inc is truly one of the most valuable technology companies in the world with a market capitalization of US$ 38.549 billion recorded in July 2025.
- In 2025 the total staff compliment for Microchip Technology Inc was more than 19 500.
- Microchip Technology Inc’s executive leadership team consists of: Steve Sanghi – Executive Chairman of the Board; Ganesh Moorthy – President, Chief Executive Officer, Director; James Eric Bjornholt – Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President; Stephen V. Drehobl – Senior Vice President – MCU8 and MCU16 Business Units; and Mitchell R. Little – Senior Vice President – Worldwide Client Engagement.
Microchip Technology Shares Growth Driver
- Microchip Technology Inc develops, manufactures, and sells specialised semiconductor products that are used by customers for a range of embedded control applications.
- Microchip Technology Inc operates through two segments: semiconductor products and technology licensing.
- In the products segment, Microchip Technology Inc designs, develops, manufactures, and markets microcontrollers, development tools and analogue, interface, mixed signal, and timing products.
- The Microchip Technology Inc product portfolio comprises general purpose and specialised 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit microcontrollers, a spectrum of linear, mixed-signal, power management, thermal management, radio frequency (RF), timing, safety, security, wired connectivity and wireless connectivity devices, as well as serial electrically erasable programmable read-only memories (EEPROMs).
- Microchip Technology Inc has experienced a fair streak of beating earnings estimates, especially when looking at the previous two reports.
- For the last reported quarter, Microchip Technology Inc surprised with earnings of $1.85 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.74 per share, representing a surprise of 6.32%.
- For the previous quarter, Microchip Technology Inc was expected to post earnings of $1.58 per share but produced earnings of $1.62 per share, delivering a surprise of 2.53%.
- Due in part to this earnings history., current estimates are trending higher, supported by the stock’s positive Earnings ESP (Expected Surprise Prediction), which is an indicator of a future earnings beat.
- Most of the time stocks with the combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) or better, produce a positive outcome almost 70% of the time.
- When the Earnings ESP comes up negative, investors should note that this will reduce the predictive power of the metric.
- As such, the company’s innovative and competitive portfolio has allowed it to defy the market trends surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, with performance and shares still attractive after a tumultuous 2025.
Microchip Technology Investor Tip
- Microchip Technology Inc trades its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) under the stock symbol MCHP. Microchip Technology Inc forms part of both the NASDAQ-100 and S&P 500 components.
- An analysis on Microchip Technology Inc’s market performance and income statement indicates Revenue (ttm) of 5.44 billion, Revenue Per Share (ttm) 20.95, Quarterly Revenue Growth (yoy) 10.60%, Gross Profit (ttm) 3.38 billion, EBITDA 2.15 billion, Net Income Avi to Common (ttm) 349.4 million, Diluted EPS (ttm) 1.29 and Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy) 16.10%.
- Microchip Technology Inc develops, manufactures, and sells its semiconductor products for various embedded control applications in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
- Microchip Technology Inc also provides development tools that enable system designers to program microcontroller products for specific applications and memory products and licenses its SuperFlash embedded flash and Smartbits one-time programmable NVM technologies.
- The market expects Microchip Technology Inc to deliver a year-over-year increase in earnings on higher revenues when it reports results for the quarter ended June 2025. This consensus outlook is important in assessing the company’s earnings picture, but the actual results compare to these estimates might influence its near-term stock price.
- The earnings report might help the stock move higher if these key numbers are better than expectations.
- The sustainability of the immediate price change and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management’s discussion of business conditions on the earnings call.
- Estimate revisions ahead of Microchip Technology Inc’s earnings release will offer better clues to the business conditions for the period whose results are coming out.
- Microchip Technology Inc delivered a stable performance despite the economic impact which resulted from the global coronavirus pandemic. This stable performance can be largely owed to the company’s diverse portfolio, as well as its strong medical supplies sector which witnessed growing demand as hospitals geared up to combat the virus.
- With sound financials and significant, consistent, and continuous growth forecasted for the remainder of 2025, shareholders who buy or sell shares can expect lucrative dividends and returns.
- Overall, the company’s a stable performance has resulted in healthy dividends and a good share price for investors who choose to purchase shares today, securing a decent buy-in in 2025 and in the future.
- Data from this analysis should be weighed against forecasted performance during this pandemic, but for now, prices on shares and in turn dividends remain unaffected, which provides shareholders with assurance that they will have a strong buy-in on NASDAQ.
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Technology
Industry
Tech Hardware and Semiconductors
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Semiconductors
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