DAKT Stock Analysis: Daktronics | NASDAQ
Electronic Components | NASDAQ, USA | Market Cap: 986m USD | 12M Return: 25.3% | Charts, Fundamentals & Technical Analysis
Avg Turnover: 11.5M
EPS Trend: -21.0%
Qual. Beats: 0
Rev. Trend: -35.0%
Qual. Beats: 0
Warnings
Tailwinds
No distinct edge detected
Seasonality 10.5 years of data
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Daktronics, Inc. is a U.S.-based designer, manufacturer, and seller of electronic scoreboards, programmable display systems, and large-screen video displays serving sporting, commercial, and transportation applications both domestically and internationally. The company operates through five reporting segments-Commercial, Live Events, High School Park and Recreation, Transportation, and International-offering a broad product portfolio that includes video walls, scoreboards and timing systems, LED message displays, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) dynamic message signs, mass transit displays, sound systems, digital billboards, and price displays, along with its proprietary Venus control suite software for managing display content.
The company sells to a diverse customer base spanning out-of-home advertising firms, retailers, quick-serve restaurants, casinos, shopping centers, cruise lines, commercial property owners, petroleum retailers, transportation departments and contractors, airlines, and sports and commercial facilities, using a mix of direct sales and third-party resellers. Daktronics was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Brookings, South Dakota, and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker DAKT after its 1994 IPO.
As a small-cap Information Technology company in the Electronic Equipment & Instruments sub-industry, Daktronics sits at the intersection of professional audiovisual equipment manufacturing and infrastructure-grade digital signage, a niche that requires both hardware engineering expertise and long-standing customer relationships with venue operators and government transportation agencies.
- Live Events segment backlog grows on professional sports venue demand
- LED component cost inflation pressures gross margins
- Out-of-home advertising market weakness pressures Commercial segment orders
- Federal infrastructure spending supports Transportation segment revenue
| Net Income: 45.4m TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue |
| FCF/TA: 0.06 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA -9.37 > 1.0 |
| NWC/Revenue: 30.32% < 20% (prev 27.69%; Δ 2.63% < -1%) |
| CFO/TA 0.09 > 3% & CFO 49.2m > Net Income 45.4m |
| Net Debt (-110.3m) to EBITDA (76.4m): -1.44 < 3 |
| Current Ratio: 2.31 > 1.5 & < 3 |
| Outstanding Shares: last quarter (49.0m) vs 12m ago 3.04% < -2% |
| Gross Margin: 27.30% > 18% (prev 25.84%; Δ 1.46% > 0.5%) |
| Asset Turnover: 158.6% > 50% (prev 150.4%; Δ 8.22% > 0%) |
| Interest Coverage Ratio: 13.63 > 6 (EBIT TTM 57.1m / Interest Expense TTM 4.19m) |
| A: 0.46 (Total Current Assets 448.0m - Total Current Liabilities 193.7m) / Total Assets 554.4m |
| B: 0.31 (Retained Earnings 173.3m / Total Assets 554.4m) |
| C: 0.11 (EBIT TTM 57.1m / Avg Total Assets 528.7m) |
| D: 1.19 (Book Value of Equity 300.7m / Total Liabilities 253.7m) |
| Altman-Z'' = 6.00 = AAA |
| DSRI: 1.26 (Receivables 194.6m/139.6m, Revenue 838.7m/756.5m) |
| GMI: 0.95 (GM 25.84% / 27.30%) |
| AQI: 0.80 (AQ_t 0.08 / AQ_t-1 0.09) |
| SGI: 1.11 (Revenue 838.7m / 756.5m) |
| TATA: -0.01 (NI 45.4m - CFO 49.2m) / TA 554.4m) |
| Beneish M = -2.90 (Cap -4..+1) = A |
As of July 10, 2026, the stock is trading at USD 20.52 with a total of 707,953 shares traded. Over the past week, the price has changed by +3.22%, over one month by +6.38%, over three months by +3.17% and over the past year by +25.27%.
Current recommended Stop Loss: 18.20 (which is 11.3% or 2.4 ATR below the current price).
Daktronics has received a consensus analysts rating of 5.00. Therefore, it is recommended to buy DAKT.
- StrongBuy: 1
- Buy: 0
- Hold: 0
- Sell: 0
- StrongSell: 0
| Analysts Target Price | 31.7 | 54.3% |
P/E Trailing = 22.2065
P/E Forward = 15.3139
P/S = 1.1762
P/B = 3.1949
P/EG = 0.6123
Revenue TTM = 838.7m USD
EBIT TTM = 57.1m USD
EBITDA TTM = 76.4m USD
Long Term Debt = 9.63m USD (from longTermDebt, last quarter)
Short Term Debt = 4.39m USD (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 21.4m USD (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter) + Leases 3.24m
Net Debt = -110.3m USD (calculated: Debt 21.4m - CCE 131.6m)
Enterprise Value = 876.2m USD (986.5m + Debt 21.4m - CCE 131.6m)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 13.63 (Ebit TTM 57.1m / Interest Expense TTM 4.19m)
EV/FCF = 25.54x (Enterprise Value 876.2m / FCF TTM 34.3m)
FCF Yield = 3.91% (FCF TTM 34.3m / Enterprise Value 876.2m)
FCF Margin = 4.09% (FCF TTM 34.3m / Revenue TTM 838.7m)
Net Margin = 5.41% (Net Income TTM 45.4m / Revenue TTM 838.7m)
Gross Margin = 27.30% ((Revenue TTM 838.7m - Cost of Revenue TTM 609.7m) / Revenue TTM)
Gross Margin QoQ = 28.03% (prev 23.99%)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 1.58 (Enterprise Value 876.2m / Total Assets 554.4m)
Interest Expense / Debt = 19.60% (Interest Expense 4.19m / Debt 21.4m)
Taxrate = 22.21% (13.0m / 58.3m)
NOPAT = 44.4m (EBIT 57.1m * (1 - 22.21%))
Current Ratio = 2.31 (Total Current Assets 448.0m / Total Current Liabilities 193.7m)
Debt / Equity = 0.07 (Debt 21.4m / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 300.7m)
Debt / EBITDA = -1.44 (Net Debt -110.3m / EBITDA 76.4m)
Debt / FCF = -3.21 (Net Debt -110.3m / FCF TTM 34.3m)
Total Stockholder Equity = 292.9m (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 8.58% (Net Income 45.4m / Total Assets 554.4m)
RoE = 15.49% (Net Income TTM 45.4m / Total Stockholder Equity 292.9m)
RoCE = 18.87% (EBIT 57.1m / Capital Employed (Equity 292.9m + L.T.Debt 9.63m))
RoIC = 13.74% (NOPAT 44.4m / Invested Capital 323.2m)
WACC = 11.76% (E(986.5m)/V(1.01b) * Re(11.68%) + D(21.4m)/V(1.01b) * Rd(19.60%) * (1-Tc(0.22)))
Discount Rate = 11.68% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.)
Shares (quarterly) Correlation: 2.22 | Cagr: -1.59%
[DCF] Terminal Value 61.53% ; FCFF base≈51.9m ; Y1≈45.5m ; Y5≈36.7m
[DCF] Fair Price = 10.14 (EV 379.4m - Net Debt -110.3m = Equity 489.7m / Shares 48.3m; r=11.76% [WACC]; 5y FCF grow -15.0% → 2.50% )
EPS Correlation: -20.98 | EPS CAGR: -3.27% | SUE: 0.59 | # QB: 0
Revenue Correlation: -35.05 | Revenue CAGR: -1.38% | SUE: 0.16 | # QB: 0
EPS current Quarter (2026-07-31): EPS=0.35 | Chg30d=-8.97% | Revisions=-40% | Analysts=2
EPS next Quarter (2026-10-31): EPS=0.37 | Chg30d=-2.63% | Revisions=-25% | Analysts=2
EPS current Year (2027-04-30): EPS=1.18 | Chg30d=-0.42% | Revisions=+0% | GrowthEPS=+11.8% | GrowthRev=+7.2%
EPS next Year (2028-04-30): EPS=1.46 | Chg30d=+0.69% | Revisions=+25% | GrowthEPS=+24.3% | GrowthRev=+7.6%
[Analyst] Revisions Ratio: -22% (up=2, down=4)