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SILICOM LTD. SILC
SILICOM LTD. (SILC) earns a Piotroski F-score of 5/9 (mixed financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It pays a dividend yielding 3.15% (safety: no dividend). FY2025 revenue was $61.9M at a -18.5% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -2.72 — low (below −2.22 — no manipulation red flag) . A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Manufacturing · percentile among 1957 companies
Percentile vs other Manufacturing companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 5/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.564 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.631 |
| EBIT / assets | -0.081 |
| Equity / liabilities | 3.389 |
Sector peers · similar-size Manufacturing companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SILC | SILICOM LTD. | 5/9 | 8.78 | — | +6.6% |
| FOXX | Foxx Development Holdings Inc. | 6/9 | -6.9 | — | — |
| BOSC | BOS BETTER ONLINE SOLUTIONS LTD | 7/9 | 1.14 | 8.8 | +26.6% |
| ALLT | Allot Ltd. | 6/9 | 0.16 | 103.1 | +10.6% |
| CIIT | Tianci International, Inc. | 2/9 | 17.03 | — | — |
| INTZ | INTRUSION INC | 3/9 | — | — | — |
| LTRX | LANTRONIX INC | 4/9 | -2.7 | — | -23.3% |
About SILICOM LTD.
Silicom Ltd. designs, manufactures, markets, and supports networking and data infrastructure solutions in the United States, North America, Israel, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. It provides server network interface cards; and smart card products, including encryption, data compression, other hardware acceleration and offloading cards, and field programmable gate-array based cards. The company also provides smart platforms, such as virtualized customer-premises equipment and universal customer-premises equipment; and edge devices for SD-WAN, SASE, telco dedicated routers, and NFV. In addition, it offers switches; edge artificial intelligence solutions; edge networking accessories; transceivers; and embedded motherboards. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturing, cloud, telco mobile, and related service provider markets. Silicom Ltd. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel.
FAQ
Is SILC financially healthy?
SILICOM LTD.'s Piotroski F-score is 5/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does SILC pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. SILICOM LTD. pays a dividend yielding about 3.15% with a None payout ratio, rated “no dividend” for safety.
How profitable is SILC?
In FY2025, SILICOM LTD. had a net margin of -18.5% and a return on equity of -9.8%.
Is SILC overvalued or undervalued?
SILICOM LTD. trades at about 17.3× trailing earnings — below its 10-year norm (10-year range 12.8×–55.2×, median 23.8×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
Is SILC a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on SILICOM LTD.: a Piotroski F-score of 5/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a dividend yield of 3.15%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.