QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK)
Information Technology · Programmable Logic Semiconductors · NASDAQ
QuickLogic develops programmable logic semiconductor technologies—embedded FPGA IP and discrete FPGA devices—for aerospace, defense, industrial, and edge computing applications requiring flexible, low-power, configurable hardware.
What QUICKLOGIC CORP does
QuickLogic is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and licenses embedded Field Programmable Gate Array (eFPGA) intellectual property for integration into custom semiconductor devices, as well as discrete FPGA silicon products. The company provides eFPGA IP through automated architecture generation, professional services, and development tools, serving aerospace and defense, industrial systems, data processing, and edge computing markets. Their programmable logic technologies enable customers to implement system control, hardware acceleration, and configurable functions in both custom silicon and standalone products, with an emphasis on security, reliability, and long operational lifetimes.
Themes: embedded systems, FPGA IP licensing, hardware acceleration, aerospace and defense electronics, edge computing
Fundamentals
- Price$11.44 as of 2026-08-21 close
- Market cap$210M as of 2026-08-21
- 1-year return+107.2% 2025-08-21 close $5.52 → 2026-08-21 close $11.44
- P/En/a negative earnings
- Net margin-102.3% as of 2026-08-24
- Gross margin+20.7% as of 2026-08-24
- ROE-59.9% as of 2026-08-24
- Debt / equity0.13 as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue growth (YoY)-21.3% as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+2.8% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.13 as of 2026-08-24
- Last reported earnings2026-08-11 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
How QUIK compares in its sector
- net profit marginbottom 10% 405 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-08-24
- operating marginbottom 25% 405 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-08-24
- gross marginbottom 25% 403 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-08-24
- return on equitybottom 25% 405 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-08-24
- 3-year revenue CAGRmiddle range 386 covered Information Technology peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)bottom 25% 382 covered Information Technology peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Information Technology companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
How QUICKLOGIC CORP looks technically
QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK) is trading 0.6% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 197 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal. A strong downtrend is in place — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 32, with sellers in control. Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 36, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 3 trading days ago (its momentum flipped negative). It made a new 20-day low about 2 trading days ago. It is 53.0% below its highest point of the past year.
Trend
8
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 0.6% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -0.6% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $15.42 | $15.42 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $11.50 | $11.50 |
| Swing structure | each recent peak has been lower than the one before it and each dip deeper — the pattern chart-watchers call a downtrend, which describes where price has already been and not where it goes next | lower highs and lower lows |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing high 17 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 17 sessions |
| Wave structure | its recent swings can be read as a five-part downward sequence — what Elliott-wave chartists call an impulse — now in leg 3 of five; the labelling fails if price closes above 14.81. It is one of several labellings that fit, and it describes the swings already printed, not what comes next. The same swings also read as a three-part correction in leg C. | possible downward five-wave sequence, in wave 3 (one of several readings) |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 197 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal | 197 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | a strong downtrend is in place — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 32, with sellers in control | 31.7 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 36, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 35.7 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading near the bottom of its 14-day range ($11.00 to $14.81) — its "stochastic" reading is 12 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been climbing within that range over the last few sessions. | 11.6 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 3 trading days ago (its momentum flipped negative) | 3 sessions |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $24.33 | $24.33 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 53.0% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -53.0% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 138.3% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +138.3% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 53.0% below its highest point of the past year | 53.0% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day low about 2 trading days ago | 2 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 2 trading days ago | 2 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $101.41 (set on 2011-01-06) | $101.41 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($4.89 to $23.74), and it has given back well over two thirds of its rise from last year’s low — 65% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $11.49 to $12.09. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 65.3% |
| From the all-time high | it is 88.7% below its all-time high | -88.7% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 1.1% below a resistance level at $11.56 — a price it turned at twice since 2026-04-23, most recently on 2026-07-28. Since 2024-08-21 it has 12 such levels below the current price and 1 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | +1.1% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $2.12 (set on 2020-03-19) | $2.12 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 440.3% above its all-time low | +440.3% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are about average versus its own recent 6-month history | 38th percentile |
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| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $1.02 between its high and its low — about 8.9% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $1.02 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $11.00 and $14.88 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $11.00 – $12.94 – $14.88 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 8.9% in a typical session — among the most volatile in the catalog. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 8.9% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 0.1 daily ranges below its 200-day average price (0.6% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 0.1 daily ranges below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 0.97× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts have cut their average price target by 2.8% since the prior reading | -2.8% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | not available for this company yet | n/a |
Candlestick patterns
3
| Since a doji | today it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | today |
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| Since a hammer | 3 sessions ago, after a stretch of decline, it sold off hard during the session and then closed back near its high — a "hammer", the long lower wick showing the drop was bought back before the close | 3 sessions ago |
| Since a bearish engulfing | 4 sessions ago it opened above the previous session's close and finished below that session's open — a "bearish engulfing" pair, where one down day more than undid the up day before it | 4 sessions ago |
Price gaps
3
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-08-21 1.5% above the previous session's close — an overnight gap, the part of the move that happened while the market was shut, and traded back through that level before the close | +1.5% |
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| Open gap | it gapped 3.0% below the previous close 3 sessions ago and has not traded back through the level it left behind at 12.63 — an "unfilled gap", which describes a price range no trade has since crossed and is not a forecast that it will be crossed | -3.0% |
| Gap filled | a 3.3% gap up opened on 2026-08-11 has been "filled" 8 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it closed again during the very session that opened it | 8 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it closed higher in its latest session, after a session that did not close higher — a single up day rather than a run | 1 session up |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock lagged the market by 21.4 percentage points (the stock lost 19.0% while the market gained 2.3%) | -21.4% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 46.4 percentage points (the stock lost 43.3% while the market gained 3.1%) | -46.4% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock beat the market by 30.0 percentage points (the stock gained 41.1% while the market gained 11.1%) | +30.0% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock beat the market by 86.8 percentage points (the stock gained 107.2% while the market gained 20.5%) | +86.8% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 3 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bullish state: a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day, outperforming the market over 6 months, near the bottom of its 14-day range (oversold) — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 3 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 5 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: a strong downtrend, with sellers in control, trading below its 200-day average, a fresh 20-day low, MACD momentum is negative, trading below the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 5 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 32% below the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-16 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established downtrend, with the band above acting as the level that would have to be cleared. The band itself is thick, spanning 15.8% of the share price, which is taken to mean a barrier that has held for a while and takes effort to cross. | -31.8% |
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Volume-weighted price
1
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 25% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $15.28 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 157 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -25.1% |
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Price levels it has turned at before
QUIK last closed at $11.44 on 2026-08-21. Since 2024-08-21 it has turned at 12 prices below its last close and 1 above; the 3 nearest below and the nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $11.56 | Resistance | 1.1% above the last close | turned there twice · 2026-04-23 to 2026-07-28 |
| $9.21 | Support | 19.5% below the last close | turned there twice · 2024-10-14 to 2026-01-22 |
| $8.86 | Support | 22.5% below the last close | turned there twice · 2024-10-28 to 2026-03-30 |
| $8.62 | Support | 24.7% below the last close | turned there twice · 2025-02-19 to 2026-03-18 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
Its recent swings can be read as a five-part downward sequence — what Elliott-wave chartists call an impulse — now in leg 3 of five.
This labelling fails — stops being a possible reading at all — if it closes above $14.81.
This is one of several labellings that fit the same swings, so treat it as a reading rather than the reading. It was chosen from 2 labellings that survived the rules, counting shorter readings of the same bars.
Alternate reading: The same swings also read as a three-part correction in leg C, which fails on a close above $14.81.
This labelling was already in place when we began recording count changes on 2026-08-13, so how long it has stood is not something we can say yet.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-21.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Pulled back from the 12-month high · Broke down to a new 20-day low · MACD just crossed bearish (12/26/9) · Analyst price target recently CUT · beating the market | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout · fifty two week high low
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-21. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Consensus ratingBuy (1.75 mean, 1=Strong Buy…5=Strong Sell) — 3 analysts
- Mean price target$23.00 range $20.00 – $27.00; median $22.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-23. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for QUIK
- Consensus EPS estimate-$0.0425 next reporting period, as of 2026-08-23
Change over time is not available yet: it needs two readings of the same reporting period at least 30 days apart, and we have been recording these estimates since 2026-08-04. An estimate for a DIFFERENT quarter is not a revision, so a reading from before the last report is never compared with one after it.
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Operating losses and potential need for additional capital to fund operations","Dependence on third-party foundries and manufacturing partners for fabrication and assembly","Risk that eFPGA IP adoption and new product introductions may not meet growth expectations"]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of QUIK's 10-Q filed 2026-05-13 against the prior one filed 2025-11-12.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Added:
- Newer filing (2026-05-13) adds reference to fiscal year ended December 28, 2025, and Form 10-K filed March 27, 2026
- Newer filing adds phrase 'completed its reincorporation' versus older 'reincorporated'
- Newer filing adds specific description of technologies: 'Strategic Radiation Hardened and Antifuse FPGAs, and ruggedized programmable logic solutions'
- Newer filing adds sentence: 'Certain of our programmable logic technologies are designed for applications requiring deterministic hardware operation, security, and long operational lifetimes'
- Newer filing adds statement: 'We also support government-sponsored initiatives focused on strengthening trusted microelectronics capabilities'
- Newer filing adds details about EOS S3™ platform combining 'mixed-signal physical functionality and fixed-function logic'
- Newer filing adds information about packaging options for cost-sensitive and aerospace/defense applications
- Removed:
- Older filing (2025-11-12) reference to fiscal year ended December 29, 2024, and Form 10-K filed March 26, 2025 removed
- Older filing's statement about SensiML Corporation discontinuation and exploration of sale options removed
- Older filing's detailed description of SensiML's Analytics Toolkit and AI/ML capabilities removed
- Older filing's statement about accounting for SensiML under ASC 205-20 Discontinued Operations removed
- Older filing's reference to disaggregated MD&A between continuing and discontinued operations removed
- Older filing's mention of QuickAI™ product removed from new products list
- Older filing's extensive description of partner collaborations (Infineon, On Semiconductor, Microchip, etc.) removed
- Older filing's detailed list of eFPGA process technologies (Intel 18A, 12nm, 16nm, etc.) removed
- Older filing's description of Australis™ compiler tool removed
- Older filing's statement about semiconductor manufacturing partners strategy removed
- Reworded:
- Overview section restructured: older filing emphasized 'innovative programmable silicon and software platforms' for 'fast time-to-market and cost-effective way'; newer emphasizes 'adaptable hardware functionality' and specific technical capabilities
- Older filing described products as 'low power, multi-core semiconductor system-on-chips (SoCs)'; newer filing does not mention SoCs in the Overview section
- Older filing listed markets as 'Aerospace and Defense, Consumer/Industrial IoT, and Consumer Electronics'; newer filing lists 'aerospace and defense, industrial and infrastructure systems, data processing and computing platforms, and certain embedded and edge computing applications'
- Older filing stated patent applications as 'four'; newer filing states 'six'
- Older filing described discrete FPGAs for 'implement their custom functionality'; newer describes them for 'implement custom hardware functionality in applications requiring flexibility, low power consumption, and long product life cycles'
- Product listing changed: older included 'QuickAI™'; newer does not mention QuickAI™
- Notes:
- The newer filing text appears to be truncated at 'We serve customers across several markets, including aerosp' and the older filing is truncated at 'Ou', making complete comparison of later sections impossible
- Cannot assess whether content after truncation point contains additional changes
Risk Factors
The two filings could not be meaningfully compared for this section.
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
No open-market insider purchases or sales recorded in the last 90 days.
- Last 180 days0 buys · 9 sells ($1M) — 4 selling insiders
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-05-20. As of 2026-08-24.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about QUIK's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Institutional ownership (13F)
4 institutional 13F filers reported holding QUIK as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 4
- Reported shares held 311,887
- Reported value $2,925,501
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 0 new, 3 increased, 0 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
QUIK had 1,627,204 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
QUIK had 8.88% of its shares outstanding sold short as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (percent of FLOAT would be higher — float is not disclosed in the source). FINRA reported 5.01 days to cover at the same settlement.
- Reported short interest (shares) 1,627,204
- Short interest (% of shares outstanding) 8.88%
- Prior settlement (shares) 1,598,981
- Reported change 1.77%
- Days to cover (reported) 5.01
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC)
- Xilinx (AMD)
- Altera (Intel)
- Microchip Technology (MCHP)
- Achronix Semiconductor
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Frequently asked questions
What does QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK) do?
QuickLogic is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and licenses embedded Field Programmable Gate Array (eFPGA) intellectual property for integration into custom semiconductor devices, as well as discrete FPGA silicon products. The company provides eFPGA IP through automated architecture generation, professional services, and development tools, serving aerospace and defense, industrial systems, data processing, and edge computing markets.
What sector is QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK) in?
QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK) is classified in the Information Technology sector. Its industry is Programmable Logic Semiconductors. It trades on NASDAQ.
Who are QUICKLOGIC CORP's (QUIK) competitors?
Notable peers of QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK) include Lattice Semiconductor, Xilinx, Altera (Intel), Microchip Technology and Achronix Semiconductor. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Is QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK) overbought or oversold right now?
QUICKLOGIC CORP (QUIK) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 36, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-21). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on QUIK come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-24; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-24. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-21.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.