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Ichor Holdings Ltd

ICHRNASDAQ

SectorInformation Technology

IndustrySemiconductor Equipment & Materials

Beta (adjusted)1.55

Intrinsic Value

Insufficient data for a value estimateNot enough reliable inputs to publish a fair value for this company yet.

Market Price $62.48Price as of 1 Oct 2026

Data confidenceNot applicable

Market Cap $2.3B

Enterprise Value $2.2B

Shares Outstanding 35.1M diluted

Moat Rating None

Next Earnings Date2 Nov 2026

All prices and values are periodic snapshots, not live quotes. Source dates are shown for reference.

Thesis

Street consensus, scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggers

AI-assisted

Thesis Summary

Ichor Holdings is positioned to benefit from a cyclical recovery in wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) spending, driven by AI infrastructure demand, advanced packaging, and leading-edge logic nodes. Following a transition and restructuring year in 2025, the company is demonstrating strong operational leverage. The transition to high-volume, lower-cost manufacturing footprints in Mexico and Malaysia is ahead of schedule, which is expected to drive significant gross margin expansion and earnings inflection as revenues ramp through 2026 and into 2027.

This section is the 12-month view: analyst targets and the probability-weighted scenarios built from them. The intrinsic value at the top of this page answers a different question: what the business is worth today.

Street view · analyst 12-month targets7 analysts · as of 18 Aug 2026

Low · most bearish analyst$80.00

Mean target$95.86

High · most bullish analyst$115.00

Our research · scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggersResearch as of 18 Sep 2026

Scenarios · 12-month scenario targetsAnchored at research date

Bear CaseDownside scenario

$80.0020%

Prolonged softness in end-market demand, customer inventory corrections, or geopolitical disruptions delay the anticipated WFE spending recovery. Sticky fixed costs, persistent hiring or retention issues at new facilities, and delayed product qualifications limit margin expansion, keeping the company's profitability constrained and exposing it to high customer concentration risks.

Base CaseCentral scenario

$95.8650%

Matches the consensus mean

A steady cyclical recovery in the semiconductor industry leads to sequential revenue growth in every quarter of 2026. Restructuring costs fade by mid-2026, and factory utilization improves, allowing gross margins to expand by approximately 100 basis points per quarter in the second half of 2026. Non-GAAP profitability inflects strongly, supported by a solid backlog and extended demand visibility.

Bull CaseUpside scenario

$115.0030%

Accelerated adoption of AI-driven advanced packaging and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) drives a steeper-than-expected ramp in WFE spending by key customers Lam Research and Applied Materials. Rapid qualification of proprietary flow control and valve products, combined with seamless execution in Mexico and Malaysia, expands gross margins back toward historical 20% levels ahead of schedule, yielding significant earnings upside.

Scenarios are anchored to street consensus at the research date, with our probabilities and rationale.

Key Investment Merits

Strong alignment with secular AI infrastructure growth, advanced packaging, and leading-edge logic nodes.
Operational inflection and margin expansion potential as restructuring noise fades and high-volume facilities scale.
Deeply integrated, mission-critical supplier status with top-tier OEMs (Lam Research, Applied Materials, ASML).
Prudent balance sheet management with extended debt maturities to 2030.

Key Investment Risks

High customer concentration, with the top two customers historically accounting for over 75% of sales.
Exposure to highly cyclical semiconductor capital equipment spending and memory market volatility.
Execution risks associated with transitioning manufacturing footprints to Mexico and Malaysia.
Potential supply chain and labor constraints pacing the revenue ramp.

Thesis Invalidation Triggers

A material reduction in capital spending forecasts or market share loss with Lam Research or Applied Materials.
Failure to achieve sequential gross margin expansion in the second half of 2026.
Severe operational delays or cost overruns in the Mexico or Malaysia facility transitions.

All scenarios are estimates and subject to change. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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