Company Analysis

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (KEYS)

NYSE: KEYS · Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, and Control · Santa Rosa, CA · filing with the SEC since 2014
Grade6.9
◀ Past 7.5● Present 6.7▶ Future 6.4

The grade of Keysight Technologies, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.9/10
◀ Past7.530% of the headline
● Present6.740% of the headline
▶ Future6.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
7.1/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 4 of 4.

weight 45% of this tense · 71st percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.9 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 9% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 4 of 4 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span7.0%top 38% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 18% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak8.9%top 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.7% a year. 39% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 27 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 74th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-10-31, Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 39% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 27 sales (10 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-20 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 15% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.7/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 14%: 14¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 48%: owes 48¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 74th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-10-31, Keysight Technologies, Inc. earned about 14 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 30 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 48 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 44% of its family
  • return on equitytop 3% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 21% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
7.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 29% of 17 in its family; net margin 15.8%.

weight 33% of this tense · 71st percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s standing among 17 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 22% by size; a net margin of 15.8% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of -0.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$5.38Btop 22% of its family
  • net margin15.8%top 15% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-0.3%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
4.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 47% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2022.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dhanasekaran, Satish (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-05-20, 4.5 years (bottom 23% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.4 years (top 42%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 39%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 21 peopletop 39% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed7.4 yearstop 42% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record4.5 yearsbottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
7.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 28% of 17 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.9 billion against debt of $2.5 billion leaves -5.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 23.8% of revenue (top 9%); a gross margin of 62.1% (top 26%); research spending of 18.7% of revenue (top 23%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-5.8%bottom 47% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue23.8%top 9% of its family
  • gross margin62.1%top 26% of its family
  • research spending against revenue18.7%top 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 49% of 17 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 51st percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.3% a year over the last three filed years against 7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 38% of its family); the newest year grew 8% (top 38%); research spending grew 6.2% a year (top 28%); capital spending grew -11.6% a year (bottom 32%) (its annual reports). Keysight Technologies, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Communications Solutions Group at $3.7 billion (69%), Electronic Industrial Solutions Group at $1.6 billion (31%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-7.3 points a yearbottom 38% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth8.0%top 38% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending6.2%top 28% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-11.6%bottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
6.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 32% of 15 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 68th percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Keysight Technologies, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 12.6% above the $4.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 23% of its family); net income of $850 million against a prior three-year average of $932 million (top 37%); a net margin of 15.8% against 17.5% before (top 37%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace12.6%top 23% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-9%top 37% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.7 pointstop 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton KEYS · research, not advice