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Shenzhen-based maker of fingerprint, touch and audio/biometric sensor chips for smartphones and other devices.
Shenzhen-based maker of fingerprint, touch and audio/biometric sensor chips for smartphones and other devices.
Designs chips and outsources manufacturing, selling in very high volumes to a handful of phone brands, so results hinge on design wins in each brand's yearly models. Fingerprint sensor chips are the base, with touch and audio chips as secondary lines.
In one line: A Chinese Synaptics/Fingerprint Cards combined.
Moat: narrow (process know-how, customer qualification, IP / patents). Deep design-in relationships with major Chinese smartphone brands and biometric-sensor patents.
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China · Founded: 2002 · Employees: 1,344
Size Shenzhen Goodix Technology (603160.SS) is a China Information Technology company (Semiconductors) with a market value of $4.35B, the 590th largest of 4,839 China companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at CN¥63.30 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 2.5%, against -31.3% for the median peer and -16.4% for the China market (cap-weighted) — 3rd highest of 19 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue fell 7.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +24.6%); the operating margin is 5.8% (peer median 6.7%).
Valuation It trades at 51.0× forward earnings against a peer median of 22.5× (4th most expensive of 15).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 27% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is -7%, so the hurdle is +34 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.3 points above its cost of capital (7.4% WACC).
Next results Next results expected around 28 Apr 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | CN¥4.33B | CN¥4.71B | CN¥4.35B | CN¥4.39B | CN¥3.38B |
| Revenue growth | — | +8% | -1% | +30% | — |
| Gross profit | CN¥1.82B | CN¥1.83B | CN¥1.66B | CN¥1.59B | CN¥1.26B |
| EBITDA | n/a | CN¥727M | CN¥721M | CN¥449M | -CN¥434M |
| Net income | CN¥517M | CN¥837M | CN¥604M | CN¥165M | -CN¥748M |
| Free cash flow | CN¥755M | CN¥1.04B | CN¥875M | CN¥1.36B | -CN¥1.38B |
| Capital expenditure | CN¥71.4M | CN¥84.9M | CN¥231M | CN¥434M | CN¥596M |
| Total debt | CN¥71.0M | CN¥388M | CN¥462M | CN¥589M | CN¥825M |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenzhen Goodix Technology 603160.SS | $4.35B | -2% | -7% | 6% | 51.0× | 26.7% |
| Synaptics SYNA | $4.63B | -7% | +11% | -3% | 21.6× | 34.6% |
| Egis Technology 6462.TWO | n/a | -39% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FocalTech Systems 3545.TW | $301M | -15% | -21% | -4% | n/a | -17.5% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | 603160.SS | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +22.8% | -18.5% | highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -2.5% | -31.3% | 3rd highest of 19 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -27.8% | -58.3% | 4th highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | -7.4% | +24.6% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 5.8% | 6.7% | 11th highest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 51.0× | 22.5× | 4th most expensive of 15 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 26.7% | 32.2% | 4th least demanding of 8 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | -6.8% | +17.9% | lowest of 8 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | +33.5 pp | +15.5 pp | 2nd most demanding of 8 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +0.3 pp | -2.5 pp | 7th highest of 20 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenzhen Goodix Technology 603160.SS | China | $4.35B | -2% | -7% | 6% | 51.0× | 26.7% | -6.8% |
| Bestechnic (Shanghai) 688608.SS | China | $4.41B | +2% | -26% | 8% | 50.6× | 42.7% | +27.1% |
| Hanwha Solutions 009830.KS | South Korea | $4.30B | -49% | +14% | 0% | 20.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Premier Energies PREMIERENE.NS | India | $4.28B | -13% | +32% | 25% | 19.7× | n/a | n/a |
| Applied Optoelectronics AAOI | United States | $4.26B | -66% | +62% | -11% | 23.5× | n/a | n/a |
| Chongqing Genori Technology 688797.SS | China | $4.45B | n/a | +37% | 29% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Hunan Goke Microelectronics 300672.SZ | China | $4.24B | -27% | +54% | 5% | 56.9× | 46.0% | +19.7% |
| Shanghai Aiko Solar Energy 600732.SS | China | $4.23B | -13% | +25% | -8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| MaxLinear MXL | United States | $4.48B | -51% | +56% | -1% | 12.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Maxscend Microelectronics 300782.SZ | China | $4.51B | -47% | -6% | -25% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Macronix International 2337.TW | Taiwan | $4.52B | -53% | +127% | 38% | 1.8× | -7.5% | -6.2% |
| eMemory Technology 3529.TWO | Taiwan | $4.17B | -58% | +17% | 61% | 45.0× | 32.2% | +16.7% |
| Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics 1385.HK | Hong Kong | $4.55B | -48% | +21% | 13% | 12.7× | 19.3% | +18.1% |
| Powertech Technology 6239.TW | Taiwan | $4.61B | -11% | +24% | 13% | 13.2× | n/a | n/a |
| Synaptics SYNA | United States | $4.63B | -7% | +11% | -3% | 21.6× | 34.6% | -2.2% |
| Jiangsu Leadmicro Nano Technology 688147.SS | China | $4.06B | -26% | -5% | 3% | 82.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Chengdu Ultra Pure Applied Materials 301717.SZ | China | $4.03B | n/a | +93% | 42% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Allwinner Technology 300458.SZ | China | $4.02B | -25% | +26% | 15% | 57.3× | n/a | n/a |
| Trina Solar 688599.SS | China | $3.90B | -36% | -3% | -9% | n/a | -4.3% | +17.9% |
| CSI Solar 688472.SS | China | $4.87B | -37% | -36% | -2% | 48.8× | n/a | n/a |
| MaxOne Semiconductor (Suzhou) 688809.SS | China | $4.90B | +2% | +57% | 39% | n/a | n/a | n/a |