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Deswell Industries, Inc. (DSWL)

NASDAQ / Technology / Hardware, Equipment & Parts

Share price

3.05 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

48.5M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Jul 30, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2017 to FY2026
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

9.7% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

4.56x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

9.7% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 44.5M USDFY2017 Net income: 1.4M USDFY2018 Revenue: 60.7M USDFY2018 Net income: 6.2M USDFY2019 Revenue: 66.6M USDFY2019 Net income: 4.3M USDFY2020 Revenue: 65.4M USDFY2020 Net income: -1.3M USDFY2021 Revenue: 64.9M USDFY2021 Net income: 8.2M USDFY2022 Revenue: 86.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 8.2M USDFY2023 Revenue: 77.3M USDFY2023 Net income: 2.1M USDFY2024 Revenue: 69.4M USDFY2024 Net income: 7.7M USDFY2025 Revenue: 67.6M USDFY2025 Net income: 11.1M USDFY2026 Revenue: 61.3M USDFY2026 Net income: 10.6M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 4.56x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits below the lowest.

Today, against the Hardware, Equipment & Parts industry (47 companies), 4.56x sits at the 1st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 27.74x to 71.43x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 9.7% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Ordinary" (8.0% to 15.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Hardware, Equipment & Parts industry (74 companies), 9.7% sits at the 67th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -18.5% to 13.5%.

Is it safe

Current ratio was 5.25 in FY2026, in the band labelled "At or above Graham's requirement" (2.00 and above), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria, suggesting short-term assets well above short-term obligations.

Today, against the Hardware, Equipment & Parts industry (75 companies), 5.25 sits at the 87th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.72 to 3.88.

Year by year against peers
Whether Deswell Industries, Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Hardware, Equipment & Parts industry, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2026, 3 fiscal years of Deswell Industries, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Deswell Industries, Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Deswell Industries, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Deswell Industries, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines Deswell Industries, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Deswell Industries, Inc., and where in its filings. (3 questions for Deswell Industries, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Deswell Industries, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (10 of sixteen figures read for Deswell Industries, Inc.)

These are DSWL’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, accession 0002077096-26-000231.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Deswell Industries, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Return on equity9.7% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Return on capital employed, pre-tax1.8% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Return on assets8.2% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Gross margin22.4% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Operating margin3.2% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Net margin17.3% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
DSWL 17.3%
MIND 1.8%ELTK 1.6%LGL 16.5%ACFN 21.9%WATT -170.4%
-170.4%21.9%
Net margin: DSWL against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Deswell Industries, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Current ratio5.25 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Quick ratio4.67 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Altman Z-score3.23 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2026 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Total assets 130.0MTotal liabilities 20.6MShareholders' equity 109.4MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Deswell Industries, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231).

Deswell Industries, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets130.0M FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026
Total liabilities20.6M FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026
Shareholders' equity109.4M FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026
Cash50.9M FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio5.25
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2026: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Interest cover: FY2026: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Deswell Industries, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings4.56x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book0.44x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Price to sales0.79x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Price to earnings over growth0.88 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2026 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value DSWL on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Deswell Industries, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Deswell Industries, Inc: valuation
Share price3.05 USD
Market capitalisation48.5M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per sharen/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Deswell Industries, Inc

  1. MIND Technology, Inc. (MIND)Market cap 38.9M USD
  2. Eltek Ltd. (ELTK)Market cap 45.6M USD
  3. The LGL Group, Inc. (LGL)Market cap 38.0M USD
  4. Acorn Energy, Inc. (ACFN)Market cap 47.0M USD
  5. Energous Corporation (WATT)Market cap 49.5M USD

Same industry (Hardware, Equipment & Parts) and size band (Nano, under 50M), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Deswell Industries, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield9.7% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Free cash flow4.7M USD ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Free cash flow margin7.7% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Dividend yield6.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Payout ratio30.0% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
FY2017 Free cash flow: -3.2M USDFY2017 Net income: 1.4M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 4.0M USDFY2018 Net income: 6.2M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 1.3M USDFY2019 Net income: 4.3M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 12.6M USDFY2020 Net income: -1.3M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 2.7M USDFY2021 Net income: 8.2M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: -1.7M USDFY2022 Net income: 8.2M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 12.2M USDFY2023 Net income: 2.1M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 12.8M USDFY2024 Net income: 7.7M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 13.2M USDFY2025 Net income: 11.1M USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 4.7M USDFY2026 Net income: 10.6M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filing

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Deswell Industries, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
4.56xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
0.44xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a Enterprise value is the market value plus total debt less cash, and the filed balance sheet reports no debt total or no cash.
9.7%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Jul 30, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
6.6%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Jul 30, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
5.25FY2026Jul 30, 2026
0.79xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
0.88FY2026Oct 15, 2026
3.23FY2026Oct 15, 2026
-1.57FY2026Jul 30, 2026
3/9FY2026Jul 30, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2017 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports Deswell Industries, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Deswell Industries, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202661.3M2.0M10.6Mn/a4.7M3.2%9.7%20-F, Jul 30, 20260002077096-26-000231
FY202567.6M3.3M11.1Mn/a13.2M4.9%10.9%20-F, Jul 29, 20250001174947-25-001096
FY202469.4M3.8M7.7Mn/a12.8M5.5%8.2%20-F, Aug 9, 20240001174947-24-000982
FY202377.3M2.9M2.1Mn/a12.2M3.7%2.3%20-F, Jul 28, 20230001174947-23-000928
FY202286.0M2.8M8.2Mn/a-1.7M3.2%9.1%20-F, Jul 28, 20220001174947-22-000859
FY202164.9M3.3M8.2Mn/a2.7M5.0%9.6%20-F/A, Jul 28, 20210001174947-21-000701
FY202065.4M1.4M-1.3Mn/a12.6M2.2%-1.6%20-F, Jul 17, 20200001174947-20-000830
FY201966.6M533.0K4.3Mn/a1.3M0.8%5.1%20-F, Jul 12, 20190001174947-19-000884
FY201860.7M1.8M6.2Mn/a4.0M3.0%7.6%20-F, Jul 13, 20180001174947-18-001008
FY201744.5M-2.1M1.4Mn/a-3.2M-4.7%1.8%20-F, Jul 14, 20170001174947-17-001059
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 3.6%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 25.5%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Deswell Industries, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-1.57 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Piotroski F-score3/9 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jul 30, 2026, 0002077096-26-000231
Named tests met3 of 30 Computed
Beta0.20 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 14 not met, 13 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Does not
Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC
Not measured
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(11)
  • Debt to Equity: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Ncav: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 11 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak, EV/EBIT. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 13 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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