What does the company do?
Linear Technology Corporation (Linear Technology) designs, manufactures and markets a line of standard linear integrated circuits. The Company’s products include high-performance amplifiers, comparators, voltage references, monolithic filters, linear regulators, direct current to direct current (DC-DC) converters, battery chargers, data converters, communications interface circuits, radio frequency (RF) signal conditioning circuits, uModule products, and many other analog functions. Applications for Linear Technology’s high-performance circuits include telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products, such as optical switches, notebook and desktop computers, computer peripherals, video/multimedia, industrial instrumentation, security monitoring devices, consumer products, such as digital cameras and medical devices, automotive electronics, factory automation, process control, and military and space systems.
How much does the company sell and earn?
Investors need to know how much stuff or services a company sells, and how much of that total it keeps as income (or profit) to grow its business or return to shareholders. The more of each, the better. In general, look for companies that sell and earn more than peers.
- Linear Tech one-year sales: 894.28 Mil.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Specialized group: -33.39% - Linear Tech one-year income: 261.71 Mil.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Specialized group: 113.22%| Sales & Income (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales | 894.28 Mil | 1.34 Bil | | Income | 261.71 Mil | 122.74 Mil |
How fast is the company growing?
- Linear Tech one-year sales growth: -23.90%.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Specialized group: -20.80 pct. pts. - Linear Tech one-year income growth: -40.70%.
| Sales & Income Growth (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales Growth | -23.90% | -3.10% | | Income Growth | -40.70% | 1.00% |
How profitable is the company?
Investors prefer companies that increase profit margins -- the percentage of sales that they keep -- every year. This is accomplished either by lowering expenses or raising prices. Look for companies that consistently find ways to squeeze more profits out of sales than their peers.
- Linear Tech one-year net profit margin: 29.3%
Difference from the company's 5-year average net profit margin: -7.5 pct. pts.
Difference from the average for the Semiconductor - Specialized group: 18.2 pct. pts.
| Net profit margins (%) |
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| Company | 29.3% | | Company 5-Yr Avg. | 36.8% | | Industry | 11.1% |
How is the company's financial health?
The debt/equity ratio shows how much a firm has borrowed as a percentage of its stock equity. The lower, the better.
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