Company Analysis

QuickLogic Corporation (QUIK)

Nasdaq: QUIK · Semiconductors & Related Devices · San Jose, CA · filing with the SEC since 1997
Grade4.4
◀ Past 3.2● Present 4.5▶ Future 5.5
3 est.

The grade of QuickLogic Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.4/10
◀ Past3.230% of the headline
● Present4.540% of the headline
▶ Future5.530% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 6 read as filed from the record and 3 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.2/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Surviving crises

as filed
2.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2024-06-07.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 99 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

QuickLogic Corporation's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2019-07-19); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2024-06-07) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
2.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+2.1% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 0 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 24th percentile among 93 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

QuickLogic Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $11 million in fiscal 2017 to $14 million in fiscal 2025, up 2.1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 35% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 0 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span2.1%bottom 20% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 27% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 10% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak35.0%bottom 39% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

SI estimate
5.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

SI estimate 5.9/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 88 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 88 members with one.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
How it was reasoned
family median, 88 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: QuickLogic Corporation's shareholder treatment is put at 5.9 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 88 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.5/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

SI estimate
4.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

SI estimate 4.9/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 97 sector filers · read for itself

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Fewer than two of the four checks can be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 97 members with one.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the four checks can be read.
How it was reasoned
family median, 97 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: QuickLogic Corporation's financial health is put at 4.9 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because fewer than two of the four checks can be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 97 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

Industry position

as filed
2.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 21% of 97 in its family; net margin -107.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 21st percentile among 97 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

QuickLogic Corporation's standing among 97 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $14 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 12% by size; a net margin of -107.6% ranks in the bottom 13%; revenue growth of -5.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 38% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$13.8Mbottom 12% of its family
  • net margin-107.6%bottom 13% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-5.2%bottom 38% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
7.3/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 26% of 67 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2016.

weight 22% of this tense · 74th percentile among 67 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

QuickLogic Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Faith, Brian C (PRESIDENT AND CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-07-18, 10.3 years (top 22% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 15.6 years (top 5%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 people in charge now (bottom 48%; 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 charge5 in three years among 9 peoplebottom 48% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed15.6 yearstop 5% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record10.3 yearstop 22% 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?

5.5/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

SI estimate
8.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

SI estimate 8.6/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 45% of this tense · 86th percentile among 97 sector filers · read for itself

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, cash less debt against assets, which ranks in the top 14% of 97 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
How it was reasoned
one part: cash less debt against assets, the one part on file, ranked among 97 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: QuickLogic Corporation's room to expand is put at 8.6 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, cash less debt against assets, which ranks in the top 14% of 97 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.6/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 46% of 93 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 46th percentile among 93 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

QuickLogic Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -5.2% a year over the last three filed years against 2.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 47% of its family); the newest year grew -30% (bottom 7%); research spending grew 1.9% a year (bottom 30%); capital spending grew 182.4% a year (top 2%) (its annual reports). QuickLogic Corporation reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: E FPGAIP at $9 million (69%), Mature Products at $3 million (24%), Hardware Products at $987 thousand (7%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-7.3 points a yearbottom 47% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-30.0%bottom 7% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending1.9%bottom 30% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending182.4%top 2% 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
0.5/10

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

bottom 5% of 88 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 5th percentile among 88 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

QuickLogic Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $14 million in fiscal 2025 came in 36.4% below the $22 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 3% of its family); net income of $15 million against a prior three-year average of $3 million (bottom 4%); a net margin of a loss larger than its revenue against -15.7% before (bottom 7%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-36.4%bottom 3% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-431%bottom 4% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-91.8 pointsbottom 7% 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 QUIK · research, not advice