← Bottleneck Solvers

BN · rank #14 · 2026-10-21

LSCC

NASDAQ · $15.26B (USD)

SignalSell
verdict · CAUTION

The exact numbers the algorithm saw.

Bottleneck themes
The structural shortage this name supplies into.
Advanced AI chip supply
Factor scores and the inputs behind this pick.
Composite score
Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank.
0.31
Forward revenue growth
Consensus forward revenue growth.
+45.1%
Forward net margin
Consensus forward net margin.
+5.8%
Net margin TTM
Trailing twelve month net margin.
+5.6%
Margin expansion
Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points).
+0.2%
Forward PEG
Forward P/E to growth. Below 1 is cheap for the growth.
0.59
Debt / FCF
Net debt relative to free cash flow. Lower is safer.
0.18×
Analyst upside
Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price.
+48.7%
Last EPS surprise
Most recent reported EPS versus consensus.
-8%
Market cap (USD)$15.26B

The AI research card

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Summary

Lattice Semiconductor is a fabless low-power FPGA and platform-firmware supplier that helps customers solve control, security, connectivity, and manageability bottlenecks in compute, industrial, automotive, and emerging AI/data-center systems.

Rationale

The stock screens well because revenue is accelerating, margins remain strong, leverage is low, and the AMI acquisition plus new secure-control and firmware products reinforce Lattice’s role as a design-in bottleneck solver rather than a commodity chip vendor.

Material risks

  • 1Customers and hyperscalers can substitute AMD/Xilinx, Altera, Microchip, Chinese FPGA suppliers, or internal control/firmware solutions, which would dilute the moat and the AI-infrastructure expansion thesis.
  • 2There is no disclosed sole-source position or long-term backlog, so demand visibility depends on continued design wins and on AI/data-center spending staying firm through AMI integration.

AI verdict council

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

OpenAI
Proceed
Claude
Caution
Gemini
Caution