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Marvell TechnologyMRVLCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Semiconductors

Designs custom and merchant networking, storage and AI-interconnect chips for data centers and telecom.

Momentum laggard 10
Mkt cap
$124B
US dollars, full cap
$/day
$5.74B
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
25.0×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-9.7 pp
WACC 16.0%
Hurdle
+32 pp
Req g minus delivered
Official | Implied
BBB / BBB
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
20 days
26 Nov 2026
Close · USD$141.20
1D+5.7%
1W-28.1%
1M-48.6%
3M-32.3%
6M-17.0%
YTD+66.4%
1Y+52.2%
ATR %12.8%
Beta3.18
52w lowhigh57.2% off high

What Marvell Technology does

Designs custom and merchant networking, storage and AI-interconnect chips for data centers and telecom.

Sells standard chips for data-center networking, storage and optical links, and also custom chips designed jointly with one cloud company for that customer alone, a design-in that takes years to win and then ties both sides. Data centers have become its largest market, overtaking its older storage and carrier businesses. Fabless: TSMC makes its chips.

Products and services

  • Custom AI accelerators/ASICs
  • Data-center networking/optical interconnect chips
  • Storage controllers
  • Automotive/carrier infrastructure

Customers

  • Amazon (custom silicon)
  • Microsoft
  • Cloud/hyperscale data centers
  • Telecom carriers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Semiconductors
  • Data infrastructure chip design…
  • Custom AI/networking silicon

What could go right

  • Hyperscaler custom-silicon wins
  • AI data-center networking growth

What could go wrong

  • Customer concentration in custom silicon
  • Competition from in-house hyperscaler design teams

Moat: narrow (customer qualification, process know-how, IP / patents). Deep co-design partnerships with hyperscalers for custom AI chips create high switching costs once designed in.

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, US · Founded: 1995 · Employees: 7,480

Named competitors

Marvell Technology at a glance

Size Marvell Technology (MRVL) is a United States Information Technology company (Semiconductors) with a market value of $124B, the 102nd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $141.20 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 17.0%, against -21.2% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 9th highest of 19 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 30.6% over the last twelve months (peer median +21.3%); the operating margin is 16.8% (peer median 19.4%).

Valuation It trades at 25.0× forward earnings against a peer median of 24.6× (9th most expensive of 20).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 54% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +23%, so the hurdle is +32 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 9.7 points below its cost of capital (16.0% WACC).

Credit Marvell Technology has 8 bonds outstanding ($4.98B), rated BBB by the agencies and trading like BBB at a weighted spread of 109 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 2.8% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 26 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10015011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026MRVL 83Peer median 78
Six months, rebased to 100: Marvell Technology against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Marvell Technology financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2026-01-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$9.45B$8.19B$5.77B$5.51B$5.92B
Revenue growth—+42%+5%-7%—
Gross profit$4.86B$4.18B$2.38B$2.29B$2.99B
EBITDA$2.85B$2.63B$990M$961M$1.75B
Net income$2.64B$2.67B-$885M-$933M-$164M
Free cash flow$1.73B$1.40B$1.40B$1.03B$1.08B
Capital expenditure$478M$359M$292M$350M$217M
Total debt$5.51B$5.03B$4.68B$4.70B$5.12B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Marvell Technology competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%+100%+150%-40%-20%0%2454285AADIQCOMKLAC0981688256ARM3711IFXNXPITXNTELMPWRINTC009150COHRMRVL6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Marvell Technology is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+100%+200%0×25×50×75×2454285AADIQCOM33080981688256ARM3711MPWRINTCMRVLRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Marvell Technology is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%0%20%40%2454285AADIQCOMKLAC3308NXPITXNTELMPWRINTC009150STMPAMRVLGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Marvell Technology is the large dot.

Marvell Technology competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (MRVL vs AVGO vs NVDA vs CRDO)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Marvell Technology MRVL$124B-17%+31%17%25.0×54.4%
Broadcom AVGO$1.40T-32%+49%49%16.9×26.6%
Nvidia NVDA$4.50T-13%+83%65%15.5×26.3%
Credo Technology CRDO$22.7B-36%+165%32%16.5×47.4%

How Marvell Technology compares with its peers

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.

Marvell Technology against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureMRVLPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-48.6%-21.9%lowest of 21
6-month return-17.0%-21.2%9th highest of 19
Distance from 52-week high-57.2%-47.7%4th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+30.6%+21.3%7th highest of 21
Operating margin16.8%19.4%10th lowest of 21
Forward P/E25.0×24.6×9th most expensive of 20
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)54.4%27.7%most demanding of 15
Growth delivered (Del g)+22.5%+9.6%3rd highest of 15
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+31.9 pp+13.0 pp3rd most demanding of 15
ROIC minus cost of capital-9.7 pp+0.8 pp3rd lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA44.0×16.7×3rd most expensive of 16
Net debt / EBITDA0.6×0.4×8th most indebted of 17
Bond spread109 bp78 bp3rd widest of 10

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Marvell Technology MRVLUnited States$124B-17%+31%17%25.0×54.4%+22.5%
Mediatek 2454.TWTaiwan$164B+7%+6%15%24.7×40.7%+13.1%
Kioxia 285A.TJapan$88.9B+139%+265%70%2.5×-3.0%+18.8%
Analog Devices ADIUnited States$176B-13%+34%36%22.4×27.8%+14.5%
Qualcomm QCOMUnited States$177B-24%+2%24%17.0×15.9%+5.1%
KLA KLACUnited States$180B-26%+16%43%22.3×23.5%+14.4%
Zhongji Innolight 3308.HKHong Kong$80.7Bn/a+177%41%16.7×27.6%+39.3%
SMIC 0981.HKHong Kong$76.7B-41%+20%9%32.9×n/an/a
Cambricon Technologies 688256.SSChina$75.7B-30%+104%33%87.3×n/an/a
Arm ARMUnited States$204B-18%+25%17%67.7×n/an/a
Ase Technology 3711.TWTaiwan$70.4B+2%+25%11%17.3×n/an/a
Infineon Technologies IFX.DEGermany$66.8B-33%+6%13%26.0×30.2%+11.3%
NXP Semiconductors NXPIUnited States$62.6B-15%+15%30%14.1×16.3%+7.3%
Texas Instruments TXNUnited States$253B-4%+20%41%24.6×23.3%+4.1%
TE Connectivity TELUnited States$59.5B+1%+15%22%15.1×8.2%+5.9%
Monolithic Power Systems MPWRUnited States$58.1B-26%+40%30%28.3×39.6%+27.0%
Intel INTCUnited States$299B-55%+12%11%39.9×46.1%-7.5%
SamsungElecMech 009150.KSSouth Korea$47.2B+5%+22%12%38.7×42.8%+7.9%
Coherent COHRUnited States$38.0B-42%+23%14%16.6×n/an/a
STMicroelectronics STMPA.PAFrance$37.7B-32%+10%7%31.4×34.0%+3.1%
CXMT 688825.SSChina$411Bn/a+156%13%n/an/an/a

Marvell Technology bonds and credit

Marvell Technology has 8 bonds outstanding with $4.98B face value. The agencies rate it BBB; its bonds trade like BBB. Weighted yield 5.70%, a spread of 109 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Marvell Technology's main competitors?
Named competitors: Broadcom (AVGO), Nvidia (NVDA), Credo Technology (CRDO). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Mediatek (2454.TW), Kioxia (285A.T), Analog Devices (ADI), Qualcomm (QCOM), KLA (KLAC), Zhongji Innolight (3308.HK).
Is Marvell Technology expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 25.0× against a peer median of 24.6×, 9th most expensive of 20 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 54% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +23%, so the hurdle is +32 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.
How has Marvell Technology stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -17.0% against -21.2% for the median peer; over one year +52.2%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.