Key Takeaways for Fabrinet Stock as of August 2026
- Across-the-Board Beat: Fabrinet posted $1.316B in Q4 revenue, up 44.64% YoY, and non-GAAP EPS of $4.10, topping Street estimates by 3.19% and 7.48%.
- Stock Selloff: Fabrinet stock tumbled 19.38% to $482.59 the day after the print, even as revenue, EBITDA, EBIT, net income and EPS all beat Street numbers.
- Cash Flow Squeeze: Full-year free cash flow landed at just $4M against $257M of operating cash flow, and Q4 alone produced a $37M free cash outflow as capacity spending accelerated.
- Deceleration Warning: CEO Seamus Grady called demand “staggering” and said another year of accelerating growth “is not beyond the bounds of possibility,” yet Q1 guidance points to 43% YoY growth, down from 45% in Q4.
A 45% revenue beat still wasn’t enough to hold Fabrinet stock up. See what the model priced in before the drop on TIKR for free →.
Fabrinet Stock Beat on Every Line of Q4 Earnings. Shares Fell 19% Anyway.
Fabrinet (FN) closed its fiscal 2026 with a quarter that beat Street estimates on every major line, then watched its stock fall 19.38% to $482.59 the next trading day.
Revenue reached $1,315.79 million, up 44.64% year over year and 3.19% ahead of the $1,275.09 million Street estimate. Non-GAAP EPS of $4.10 topped both the $3.81 estimate and the top end of management’s own guidance range.
The gap between the print and the reaction sits in the details investors were already pricing for perfection. EBITDA margin came in at 12.39%, six basis points below the Street’s 12.45% estimate, even as EBITDA dollars of $162.97 million beat by 2.66%. Data center revenue, Fabrinet’s newly recast largest category covering optical and interconnect products deployed inside data centers, grew 68% year over year to $669 million and now makes up 51% of total revenue. Direct current interconnect (DCI) products crossed a $1 billion annualized run rate, and CFO Csaba Sverha noted the segment “was equivalent to our historical datacom business” on its own.
That growth came at a cash cost. Full-year operating cash flow of $257 million produced just $4 million of free cash flow, and the fourth quarter alone swung to a $37 million free cash outflow as capital expenditures rose to $92 million, funding continued construction at the company’s Chonburi campus and the recent purchase of a Nava Nakorn facility. Management is betting that spending expands capacity from a $5.3 billion exit run rate toward $12.5 billion to $14 billion over the coming years.
Guidance added to the tension. Fabrinet guided fiscal first-quarter 2027 revenue to a range of $1.375 billion to $1.425 billion, implying 43% year-over-year growth at the midpoint, a step down from the 45% posted in Q4. CEO Seamus Grady pushed back against reading that as a slowdown on the Q4 earnings call: “Based on the demand we’re seeing, certainly, the demand is there that we could see another year of accelerating growth. It’s just a staggering demand picture we’re seeing from our customers.” Investors who had bid the stock up ahead of the print treated the guide, and the thinner margin, as the real signal instead.
Fabrinet’s data center revenue jumped 68% YoY even as the stock fell 19%. Dig into the numbers behind the disconnect on TIKR for free →
TIKR Values Fabrinet Stock at $1,003, Pricing In the Capacity Buildout
TIKR’s mid-case model values Fabrinet at $1,003 by June 2031, implying a 108% total return from the current price of $483, or 16% annualized over the next five years.
That annualized rate places Fabrinet stock among names the market still treats as a growth compounder rather than a mature contract manufacturer, even after the post-earnings drop cut nearly a fifth of its value in a single session. The model’s mid-case assumes revenue growth in the mid-teens and margin expansion continuing at a measured pace rather than the acceleration bulls had been underwriting into the print.
The target rests on the same capacity math management laid out on the call: a path from a $5.3 billion exit run rate to $12.5 billion to $14 billion as Building 10, the Nava Nakorn facility and new Santa Clara space come online. Data center revenue growing 68% year over year and a $1 billion DCI run rate support the case that demand, not capacity, remains the binding constraint on Fabrinet stock from here.
TIKR’s model puts Fabrinet stock at $1,003, a 108% return from today’s price. See the full model breakdown on TIKR for free →
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