Forensic Analysis · Semiconductors · as of Sep 25, 2026
Quicklogic Corp (QUIK)
A forensic read on Quicklogic Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
F · Poor — capital at risk
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-12.8
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
5
Forensic signals
-16.4
P / E (ttm)
-65.9%
ROE
$259M
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
-29.9%
Revenue growth
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Quicklogic Corp earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -12.8, placing it in the Distress zone. 5 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by receivables vs revenue.
What the filings flag
74d DSO
FY2024→FY2025
Receivables vs revenue.Days sales outstanding moved from 45 to 74 days FY2024→FY2025 (receivables +16% vs revenue -30%). Receivables are outrunning sales — a flag for aggressive revenue recognition or slipping collections. Across FY2023–FY2025 the day count ran 28 → 45 → 74 days — the latest step continues a climb that was already under way, which is the persistence that separates a collection problem from a busy quarter. Deferred revenue was roughly flat (-86%) over the same period, which doesn't corroborate a benign upfront-billing explanation for the receivables build. Both figures are measured on period-end balances rather than the beginning-plus-ending average, because averaging needs the balance a year before every reading — FY2024's opening balance is on file, but across the 3 fiscal years read here (FY2023–FY2025) the average yields only 2 day counts (1 step), too few to tell a climb from one year's move.
-40.0%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -40.0% in the latest fiscal year and slipping across FY2023–FY2025 from 0.3%. After-tax operating profit was $55,300 in FY2023 and ($9M) in FY2025, with operating income at 0.3% of revenue in FY2023, -12.8% in FY2024 and -86.5% in FY2025. The capital base behind it grew +29% across FY2023–FY2025, from $18M to $24M, while the return fell 40.3 points, so the dollars added over that window earned less than the 0.3% the older base was already earning.
+11.9%/yr
FY2024–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +12% over the last 1 year to FY2025 (+11.9%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~11.9% shaved off per-share growth every year — total profit has to grow that much just to keep earnings-per-share flat, and a stake held since FY2024 has been diluted ~11%.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$13.8M
Revenue Growth YoY-29.9%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)-19.5%
Net Margin-107.6%
Free Cash Flow-$7.0M
Return on Equity-65.9%
Debt / Equity0.13x
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Sep 25, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
24% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 24% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.20 per diluted share. No cash left the business to pay it, which is why operating cash flow adds it back. Net of repurchases the diluted count still rose about 11.9% a year, above the level at which the count is a material claim on a stake, and only one year's change is on file — enough to state what a holder gave up, not enough to say whether the rate is climbing or coming down. Stock compensation is one source of that issuance; acquisition consideration, equity raises, convertibles and other employee plans also net into the count, and these figures do not separate them.
$200,000
FY2025–FY2025
Goodwill impairments.Took $200,000 of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2025 ($200,000)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.