IPG Photonics Corporation (IPGP)Technology | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Marlborough, United States | NasdaqGS
76.53 USD
-0.72
(-0.932%) ⇩
(Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 76.53 |
Hot Take ↕ | Aug. 22, 2026, 5:30 a.m. EDT
The investment case for IPG Photonics is currently fractured by a severe disconnect between its lofty valuation and deteriorating operational reality. Despite a recent year-over-year price recovery, the underlying business is showing signs of distress with a 20.6% drop in quarterly earnings growth and a trailing P/E of 112x, which implies the market is pricing in massive future expansion that hasn't materialized yet. The balance sheet, while technically healthy with low debt, supports a company generating minimal returns on equity (1.3%), failing to justify the premium multiple. Crucially, the options market is screaming caution; the sheer volume of put open interest at strikes significantly above the current price indicates that sophisticated traders are betting on a continuation of the downtrend rather than a reversal. With no dividend to provide income and a statistical forecast model showing low confidence in any upward move, the risk-reward profile appears skewed toward the downside until earnings can prove the growth story is real. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| MSTL ✓ | 0.101241 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.104030 |
| AutoETS | 0.105095 |
| AutoTheta | 0.116552 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 36% |
| H-stat | 18.76 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.115 |
| Excess Kurtosis | 0.02 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Ex Dividend Date | 2012-12-18 |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 0.764 |
| Revenue per Share | 25.308 |
| Market Cap | 3,248,209,920 |
| Trailing P/E | 119.58 |
| Forward P/E | 33.48 |
| Beta | 1.00 |
| Profit Margins | 2.58% |
| Website | https://www.ipgphotonics.com |
As of Aug. 22, 2026, 5:30 a.m. EDT: Speculators are heavily positioning for downside protection, evidenced by massive open interest in out-of-the-money puts (strikes 105, 110, 125) compared to negligible call volume. While there is some speculative call volume at distant strikes (135, 185), the overwhelming capital allocation is defensive, suggesting a fear of further decline rather than a bullish breakout.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.04540354 |
| Address1 | 377 Simarano Drive |
| All Time High | 264.11 |
| All Time Low | 6.79 |
| Ask | 83.36 |
| Ask Size | 2 |
| Audit Risk | 5 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 745,420 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 491,123 |
| Average Volume | 491,123 |
| Average Volume10Days | 745,420 |
| Beta | 0.999 |
| Bid | 76.51 |
| Bid Size | 1 |
| Board Risk | 2 |
| Book Value | 50.012 |
| City | Marlborough |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 9 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 76.53 |
| Current Ratio | 6.179 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,786,665,600 |
| Day High | 80.34 |
| Day Low | 75.456 |
| Debt To Equity | 0.764 |
| Display Name | IPG Photonics |
| Dividend Date | 1,356,652,800 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,785,852,000 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,785,852,000 |
| Earnings Growth | -0.228 |
| Earnings Quarterly Growth | -0.206 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,785,846,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,793,709,000 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,793,709,000 |
| Ebitda | 109,442,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.10235 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 21.93 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 2.244 |
| Enterprise Value | 2,400,103,168 |
| Eps Current Year | 1.82286 |
| Eps Forward | 2.28571 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | 0.64 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Ex Dividend Date | 1,355,875,200 |
| Exchange | NMS |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | 508 373 1424 |
| Fifty Day Average | 94.3046 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -17.774605 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.18848078 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -4.540354 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 155.82 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -79.29001 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.5088564 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 69.41 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 7.119995 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.102578804 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 69.41 - 155.82 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,166,020,200,000 |
| Float Shares | 26,188,516 |
| Forward Eps | 2.28571 |
| Forward P E | 33.481937 |
| Free Cashflow | 48,475,500 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGS |
| Full Time Employees | 4,840 |
| Fullday Change | -0.720001 |
| Fullday Change Percent | -0.93204 |
| Fullday Price | 76.53 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,785,542,400 |
| Gross Margins | 0.38351002 |
| Gross Profits | 410,100,992 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.39091998 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.75308 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 42,443,616 |
| Industry | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials |
| Industry Disp | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials |
| Industry Key | semiconductor-equipment-materials |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 1 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Long Business Summary | IPG Photonics Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers, diode lasers, and laser-based systems used in materials processing, medical, and advanced applications. The company offers laser products, including hybrid fiber-solid state lasers with green and ultraviolet wavelengths; fiber pigtailed packaged diodes and fiber coupled direct diode laser systems; and high-energy pulsed lasers, multi-wavelength and tunable lasers, and single-polarization and single-frequency lasers, as well as other versions. It also provides complementary products, such as optical fiber delivery cables, fiber couplers, beam switches, optical processing heads, process measuring and monitoring technologies, and in-line sensors and chillers. In addition, the company offers LightWELD, a handheld laser welding system; 2D compact flat sheet cutter systems; high precision laser systems for medical technology industry; multi axis Cartesian systems for fine welding, cutting, and drilling applications; laser and non-laser robotic welding and automation solutions; and related accessories for specific medical applications. The company sells and markets its products to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and end users through direct sales force, as well as through agreements with independent sales representatives and distributors. It serves general manufacturing, automotive, consumer goods, medical devices, energy/renewable energy, micro electronics, original equipment manufacturers instrument manufacturing, scientific, as well as aerospace and defense, rail, and shipbuilding markets. IPG Photonics Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. |
| Long Name | IPG Photonics Corporation |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 3,248,209,920 |
| Market State | CLOSED |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_427949 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,777,600 |
| Net Income To Common | 27,559,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 3,285,793,137 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 7 |
| Open | 78.67 |
| Operating Cashflow | 96,444,000 |
| Operating Margins | 0.07595 |
| Overall Risk | 5 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Peg Ratio | 1.83 |
| Phone | 508 373 1100 |
| Post Market Change | 0.0 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.0 |
| Post Market Price | 76.53 |
| Post Market Time | 1,787,959,805 |
| Previous Close | 77.25 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 41.983475 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 1.5302327 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 3.0375838 |
| Profit Margins | 0.02577 |
| Quick Ratio | 4.424 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | -0.720001 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | -0.93204 |
| Regular Market Day High | 80.34 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 75.456 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 75.456 - 80.34 |
| Regular Market Open | 78.67 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 77.25 |
| Regular Market Price | 76.53 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,787,947,201 |
| Regular Market Volume | 672,488 |
| Return On Assets | 0.01102 |
| Return On Equity | 0.01302 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.111 |
| Revenue Per Share | 25.308 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.20204377 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 2 |
| Shares Outstanding | 42,443,616 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.08229999 |
| Shares Short | 3,501,518 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,784,073,600 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 3,152,028 |
| Short Name | IPG Photonics Corporation |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.2233 |
| Short Ratio | 8.55 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | MA |
| Symbol | IPGP |
| Target High Price | 152.0 |
| Target Low Price | 92.5 |
| Target Mean Price | 126.21429 |
| Target Median Price | 125.0 |
| Total Cash | 871,318,976 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 20.485 |
| Total Debt | 16,254,000 |
| Total Revenue | 1,069,340,032 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | 0.64 |
| Trailing P E | 119.578125 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 101.5141 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -24.9841 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.24611458 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 672,488 |
| Website | https://www.ipgphotonics.com |
| Zip | 1,752 |