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Linear Technology Corp.
1W: +0.2% 1M: +1.8% 3M: +4.2% 1Y: +50.2%
$65.00
Last traded 2017-03-10 — delisted
NASDAQ · Technology · Semiconductors

Edge Score

Quantitative competitive moat analysis scoring five pillars of durable advantage — cost leadership, brand intangibles, switching costs, network effects, and efficient scale — using industry percentile rankings on a 0–100 scale.

WIDE EDGE
78.5 / 100
NoneWeakNarrowWide
Primary source: Cost Advantage  ·  ROIC: 184.3%
Cost Advantage ★
100
Intangibles
78
Switching Cost
78
Network Effect
50
Scale
80
The Edge Score quantifies a company's competitive moat using five pillars: Cost Advantage (20%, operating margin and SG&A efficiency vs industry peers), Intangible Assets (25%, gross margin premium, R&D intensity, brand pricing power), Switching Costs (25%, revenue stability, earnings consistency, customer retention proxied by operating leverage), Network Effects (15%, revenue growth with expanding margins, market share dominance), and Efficient Scale (15%, market concentration, ROIC sustainability). Each pillar is scored 0–100 using industry percentile rankings, then weighted into a composite. Wide ≥ 70, Narrow ≥ 55, Weak ≥ 40, None < 40. LLTC possesses a Wide competitive edge (78.5/100) — durable structural advantages that are difficult for competitors to erode. The primary source of advantage is Cost Advantage. ROIC of 184.3% confirms the company is generating returns well above its cost of capital — a hallmark of durable competitive advantages.

InsiderStreet Scorecard

Proprietary multi-factor scorecard rating companies across seven fundamental dimensions — profitability, balance sheet strength, earnings quality, growth, value, momentum, and safety — each scored 0–100.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 71 Grade A+
Profitability
100
Balance Sheet
92
Earnings Quality
72
Growth
—
Value
49
Momentum
—
Safety
100
Cash Flow
85
The InsiderStreet Scorecard rates companies across eight dimensions: Profitability (margins, ROA, ROE), Balance Sheet (leverage, liquidity, coverage), Earnings Quality (accruals, cash conversion), Growth (revenue and earnings trajectory), Value (P/E, P/B, earnings yield, Graham criteria), Momentum (revenue and earnings acceleration), Safety (Altman Z-Score risk adjustment), and Cash Flow (operating cash flow quality, FCF conversion, cash coverage). The overall score blends 35% quality, 35% value, and 30% momentum, with a penalty for distress-zone Altman scores. LLTC scores highest in Safety (100/100) and lowest in Value (49/100). An overall grade of A+ places LLTC among the highest-quality companies in its peer group.

Risk & Quality Signals

Academic financial models used by institutional investors to assess bankruptcy risk, earnings manipulation, financial strength, and credit quality.

Altman Z-Score
31.00
Safe Zone
Piotroski F-Score
4/9
✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Beneish M-Score
—
—
Ohlson O-Score
-15.46
Bankruptcy prob: 0.0%
Low Risk
Credit Rating
AA
Score: 88.6/100
Earnings Quality
75/100
OCF/NI: 1.40x
Accruals: -9.1%
The Altman Z-Score (1968) combines five ratios — working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value of equity, and sales, all relative to total assets or liabilities — into a single bankruptcy predictor. LLTC scores 31.00, placing it in the Safe Zone (safe > 2.99, distress < 1.81). Bankruptcy is statistically unlikely within the next two years. The Piotroski F-Score (2000) is a 9-point binary checklist — four profitability tests (positive ROA, positive cash flow, improving ROA, cash flow exceeding net income), three leverage tests (declining debt ratio, improving current ratio, no share dilution), and two efficiency tests (improving gross margin, improving asset turnover). Each pass scores 1 point. LLTC scores 4/9, indicating moderate financial health — some areas of strength offset by weaknesses in others. The Ohlson O-Score (1980) is a 9-variable logistic regression that estimates bankruptcy probability using firm size, leverage, working capital, current ratio, profitability (ROA), cash flow coverage, negative equity flag, consecutive losses flag, and earnings trajectory. The raw score is converted to a probability via logistic transformation. LLTC's implied 0.0% bankruptcy probability is well within safe territory. Our Credit Rating model scores companies on five weighted components — solvency (30%), earning power (25%), leverage (20%), liquidity (15%), and cash flow quality (10%) — then blends the absolute score with sector and industry peer rankings. For companies with large buyback programs, equity is adjusted by adding back cumulative 5-year repurchases (capped at 80% of FCF generated) to avoid penalizing shareholder-friendly capital allocation. LLTC receives an estimated rating of AA (score: 88.6/100). The Earnings Quality score measures how well reported earnings are backed by real cash. It evaluates the operating cash flow to net income ratio (OCF/NI ≥ 1.0 means every dollar of earnings is cash-backed) and the accruals ratio (the gap between earnings and cash flow relative to assets — lower is better). LLTC's score of 75/100 is high — cash flows strongly support reported earnings.

Valuation

Key valuation multiples comparing the stock's market price to its earnings, revenue, book value, and cash flows. Lower multiples may indicate relative undervaluation versus peers.

P/E
32.18x
PEG
-32.98x
P/S
0.00x
P/B
9.04x
P/FCF
23.49x
P/OCF
21.93x
EV/EBITDA
19.52x
EV/Revenue
9.25x
EV/EBIT
84.50x
EV/FCF
21.03x
Earnings Yield
3.26%
FCF Yield
4.26%
Shareholder Yield
2.44%
Graham Number
$18.68
Equity-based multiples (P/E, P/B, P/FCF) compare the stock price to per-share fundamentals and are affected by capital structure. Enterprise value multiples (EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, EV/FCF) strip out debt and cash, making them more useful for cross-company comparisons regardless of how companies are financed. The Graham Number — √(22.5 × EPS × Book Value) — is Benjamin Graham's formula for the maximum price a defensive investor should pay. At 32.2x earnings, LLTC commands a growth premium. Graham's intrinsic value formula yields $18.68 per share, 248% below the current price.

DuPont Decomposition (5-Factor)

The 5-factor DuPont framework breaks Return on Equity into its component drivers — tax efficiency, interest burden, operating profitability, asset utilization, and financial leverage — to reveal what truly drives shareholder returns.

Tax Burden
0.767
NI / EBT
×
Interest Burden
4.011
EBT / EBIT
×
EBIT Margin
0.109
EBIT / Rev
×
Asset Turnover
0.677
Rev / Assets
×
Equity Multiplier
1.167
Assets / Equity
=
ROE
26.6%
The 5-factor DuPont identity decomposes ROE as: Tax Burden × Interest Burden × EBIT Margin × Asset Turnover × Equity Multiplier = ROE. This reveals whether returns are driven by operating performance, financial leverage, or tax efficiency — three very different sources of profitability. LLTC's ROE of 26.6% is driven by Asset Turnover (0.677), indicating efficient use of assets to generate revenue.

Graham-Dodd Adjusted Valuation

Our adaptation of Graham's growth formula (Fair P/E = 8.5 + 2g) from The Intelligent Investor. The classic version relies on analyst growth projections, which can be unreliable. This adjusted model substitutes the company's realized 3-year EPS CAGR — a backward-looking, verifiable measure of actual earnings power — grounding the valuation in demonstrated performance rather than forecasts.

Two adjustments we make, and why. Growth is capped at 15%. Graham defined g as expected growth over the next seven to ten years, not last year's rate. Across US companies since 1994 the median realized 7-year EPS growth is 5–8% regardless of how fast a company grew beforehand, and of 4,457 company-quarters that grew faster than 200%, none sustained it. Uncapped, the formula assigned fair multiples in the hundreds to companies that had never held that rate — and scored worse than simply reading the P/E. Capped, it carries real information. The verdict has three states, not two. Tested over 377,249 stock-months, this ratio only separates outcomes at its extremes: below 0.25 beat the universe by 1.3 points a year, above 3.0 lagged by 2.7, and everything in between sat inside a one-point band. Rather than call two-thirds of the market "undervalued" on a threshold of 1.0, we say Neutral where the model cannot tell — which is most of the time.

Adj. Growth Rate
0.00%
Fair P/E
8.50x
Intrinsic Value
$17.27
Price/Value
3.61x
Margin of Safety
-261.02%
Premium
261.02%
Assessment
Overvalued
Graham's classic formula uses analyst-projected growth to estimate a fair P/E (8.5 + 2g). Our adjusted version replaces that projection with LLTC's realized 0.0% 3-year EPS CAGR, capped at 15% — demonstrated performance rather than forecasts, held to a rate companies have historically sustained. LLTC trades at a 261% premium to its adjusted intrinsic value of $17.27, suggesting the market is pricing in future growth beyond what historical earnings support. The adjusted fair P/E of 8.5x compares to the current market P/E of 32.2x.

Profitability Trends

Historical profitability ratios tracking how efficiently the company converts revenue into returns for shareholders over time.

Leverage & Solvency Trends

Debt and liquidity metrics showing the company's financial leverage and ability to meet short-term and long-term obligations.

Efficiency & Working Capital Trends

Operating efficiency metrics measuring how quickly the company converts inventory to sales, collects receivables, and manages its cash conversion cycle.

Growth Trends (YoY %)

Year-over-year growth rates for key financial metrics, showing the trajectory of revenue, earnings, and cash flow generation.

Earnings Stability

R-squared of linear regression measuring how predictably revenue, earnings, and margins follow a trend over the trailing 5 years. 1.0 = perfectly predictable; lower values indicate erratic or cyclical behavior.

Monte Carlo Price Simulation

Geometric Brownian Motion with 1,000 antithetic paths over 1 year, seeded from 299 days of historical volatility. Percentile bands show the range of statistically plausible outcomes — this is a statistical model, not a forecast.

Current Price
$65.00
Median 1Y
$90.18
5th Pctile
$56.47
95th Pctile
$143.93
Ann. Volatility
29.0%
25th–75th percentile 5th–95th percentile Median path Historical
All Ratios & Metrics

Complete fundamental data with up to 20 periods of history, sparkline trends, and current values across 13 categories and 130+ financial metrics.

Profitability
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
ROE 7.6% 14.8% 20.8% 26.6% 26.62%
ROA 6.4% 12.7% 17.7% 22.8% 22.81%
ROIC 39.7% 83.0% 1.3% 1.8% 1.84%
ROCE 8.9% 8.7% 8.5% 8.2% 8.16%
Gross Margin 76.2% 76.4% 75.4% 75.8% 75.79%
Operating Margin 45.0% 45.9% 39.9% 42.6% 42.64%
Net Margin 35.6% 35.4% 30.8% 33.0% 32.99%
EBITDA Margin 48.9% 49.8% 44.0% 46.7% 46.75%
FCF Margin 45.5% 44.4% 43.8% 44.0% 43.98%
OCF Margin 49.1% 47.9% 46.9% 47.1% 47.12%
ROIC Economic snapshot only 26.72%
Cash ROA snapshot only 31.92%
Cash ROIC snapshot only 2.61%
CROIC snapshot only 2.44%
NOPAT Margin snapshot only 33.26%
Pretax Margin snapshot only 43.89%
R&D / Revenue snapshot only 19.76%
SGA / Revenue snapshot only 12.83%
SBC / Revenue snapshot only 5.65%
Valuation
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
P/E Ratio 85.86 43.43 38.76 30.69 32.178
P/S Ratio 30.52 15.41 13.14 10.33 0.000
P/B Ratio 6.55 6.44 8.05 8.17 9.040
P/FCF 67.13 34.73 30.00 23.49 23.495
P/OCF 62.14 32.15 28.01 21.93 21.928
EV/EBITDA 54.68 27.22 24.73 19.52 19.523
EV/Revenue 26.75 13.44 11.77 9.25 9.248
EV/EBIT 59.46 60.79 80.30 84.50 84.503
EV/FCF 58.83 30.29 26.87 21.03 21.029
Earnings Yield 1.2% 2.3% 2.6% 3.3% 3.26%
FCF Yield 1.5% 2.9% 3.3% 4.3% 4.26%
Price/Tangible Book snapshot only 8.169
EV/OCF snapshot only 19.627
EV/Gross Profit snapshot only 12.176
Acquirers Multiple snapshot only 21.329
Shareholder Yield snapshot only 2.44%
Graham Number snapshot only $18.68
Leverage & Solvency
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
Current Ratio 9.80 9.75 8.98 9.53 9.528
Quick Ratio 9.26 9.21 8.50 9.03 9.035
Debt/Equity 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000
Net Debt/Equity -0.81 -0.82 -0.84 -0.86 -0.857
Debt/Assets 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000
Debt/EBITDA 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000
Net Debt/EBITDA -7.71 -3.99 -2.88 -2.29 -2.289
Interest Coverage — — — — —
Equity Multiplier 1.19 1.17 1.18 1.17 1.167
Cash Ratio snapshot only 8.065
Defensive Interval snapshot only 1323.9 days
Efficiency & Turnover
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
Asset Turnover 0.18 0.36 0.52 0.68 0.677
Inventory Turnover 0.91 1.79 2.71 3.62 3.623
Receivables Turnover 2.36 4.67 6.83 10.23 10.229
Payables Turnover 3.87 9.97 15.63 20.76 20.761
DSO 155 78 53 36 35.7 days
DIO 400 204 135 101 100.7 days
DPO 94 37 23 18 17.6 days
Cash Conversion Cycle 460 245 165 119 118.8 days
Fixed Asset Turnover snapshot only 5.280
Operating Cycle snapshot only 136.4 days
Cash Velocity snapshot only 0.922
Capital Intensity snapshot only 1.476
Growth Quality
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
Revenue Stability — — — — —
Earnings Stability — — — — —
Margin Stability — — — — —
Rev. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000
Earn. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000
FCF Positive Streak 0 0 0 0 0
Earnings Persistence — — — — —
Earnings Smoothness — — — — —
ROE Trend — — — — —
Gross Margin Trend — — — — —
FCF Margin Trend — — — — —
Sustainable Growth Rate 3.0% 5.9% 7.8% 9.9% 9.91%
Internal Growth Rate 2.6% 5.4% 7.1% 9.3% 9.28%
Cash Flow Quality
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
OCF/Net Income 1.38 1.35 1.38 1.40 1.399
FCF/OCF 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.933
FCF/Net Income snapshot only 1.306
OCF/EBITDA snapshot only 0.995
CapEx/Revenue 3.7% 3.6% 3.1% 3.1% 3.14%
CapEx/Depreciation snapshot only 0.904
Accruals Ratio -0.02 -0.04 -0.07 -0.09 -0.091
Sloan Accruals snapshot only 0.022
Cash Flow Adequacy snapshot only 1.940
Earnings Quality Score snapshot only 0.750
Dividends & Buybacks
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
Dividend Yield 0.7% 1.4% 1.6% 2.0% 0.00%
Dividend/Share $0.32 $0.64 $0.96 $1.28 $0.00
Payout Ratio 60.9% 60.0% 62.6% 62.8% 62.79%
FCF Payout Ratio 47.6% 48.0% 48.4% 48.1% 48.07%
Total Payout Ratio 86.3% 75.6% 76.2% 74.9% 74.93%
Div. Increase Streak 0 0 0 0 0
Chowder Number — — — — —
Buyback Yield 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.40%
Net Buyback Yield 0.3% -1.2% -0.9% -0.8% -0.77%
Total Shareholder Return 1.0% 0.2% 0.7% 1.3% 1.27%
DuPont Factors
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
Tax Burden (NI/EBT) 0.78 0.77 0.77 0.77 0.767
Interest Burden (EBT/EBIT) 1.01 2.08 3.01 4.01 4.011
EBIT Margin 0.45 0.22 0.15 0.11 0.109
Asset Turnover 0.18 0.36 0.52 0.68 0.677
Equity Multiplier 1.19 1.17 1.18 1.17 1.167
Per Share
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
EPS (Diluted TTM) $0.52 $1.06 $1.53 $2.03 $2.03
Book Value/Share $6.87 $7.18 $7.36 $7.63 $7.19
Tangible Book/Share $6.87 $7.18 $7.36 $7.63 $7.63
Revenue/Share $1.47 $3.00 $4.51 $6.03 $5.82
FCF/Share $0.67 $1.33 $1.98 $2.65 $2.61
OCF/Share $0.72 $1.44 $2.12 $2.84 $2.80
Cash/Share $5.56 $5.91 $6.19 $6.54 $5.92
EBITDA/Share $0.72 $1.48 $2.15 $2.86 $2.86
Debt/Share $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Net Debt/Share $-5.56 $-5.91 $-6.19 $-6.54 $-6.54
Academic Models
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
Altman Z-Score — — — — 30.996
Altman Z-Prime snapshot only 56.476
Piotroski F-Score 4 4 4 4 4
Beneish M-Score — — — — —
Ohlson O-Score snapshot only -15.456
ROIC (Greenblatt) snapshot only 8.19%
Net-Net WC snapshot only $6.46
EVA snapshot only $466999375.30
Credit
Metric Trend Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Current
Credit Rating snapshot only AA
Credit Score 89.00 89.00 89.00 88.63 88.634
Credit Grade snapshot only 3
Implied Spread (bps) snapshot only 80.000
Industry Credit Rank snapshot only 70
Sector Credit Rank snapshot only 80

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