Bottleneck Solvers

BN · rank #18 · 2026-07-23

ON

NASDAQ · $35.93B (USD)

SignalSell
verdict · CAUTION

The exact numbers the algorithm saw.

Bottleneck themes
The structural shortage this name supplies into.
Advanced AI chip packaging and memory
Factor scores and the inputs behind this pick.
Composite score
Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank.
0.19
Forward revenue growth
Consensus forward revenue growth.
+11.4%
Forward net margin
Consensus forward net margin.
+11.8%
Net margin TTM
Trailing twelve month net margin.
+9.5%
Margin expansion
Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points).
+2.4%
Forward PEG
Forward P/E to growth. Below 1 is cheap for the growth.
0.30
Debt / FCF
Net debt relative to free cash flow. Lower is safer.
2.07×
Analyst upside
Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price.
+22.5%
Last EPS surprise
Most recent reported EPS versus consensus.
+3%
Market cap (USD)$35.93B

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Summary

ON Semiconductor designs and manufactures power and sensing semiconductors, with growing exposure to AI data center power management and automotive electrification.

Rationale

AI data center revenue more than doubling YoY with margin expansion and a forward PEG of 0.30 suggests the market is underpricing ON's role as a structural bottleneck-solver in power delivery for high-density AI compute.

Material risks

  • 1Automotive recovery is demand-driven, not sole-source structural — if EV adoption stalls or Tier-1 OEMs dual-source silicon carbide, the non-AI revenue base (~60%+ of mix) deflates the bottleneck thesis materially.
  • 2Institutional 13F median change is negative (-0.23%), signaling smart money is trimming, which could reflect concerns about automotive inventory normalization outpacing AI data center ramp.

AI verdict council

Each pick is reviewed independently by 3 models before any order. 1 of 3 voted to proceed.

OpenAI
Caution
Claude
Proceed
Gemini
Error