Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC): Reassessing Valuation After 14% Workforce Cut and Active Insider Trading
The 14% workforce reduction at Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC) has investors asking whether management is tightening the belt from a position of strength or quietly bracing for a slowdown after in line third quarter results and active insider trading.
See our latest analysis for Lattice Semiconductor.
Against that backdrop, Lattice’s 1 day share price return of 5.21 percent and roughly 34 percent year to date share price gain suggest investors still see long term growth potential despite restructuring noise and mixed insider signals.
If this kind of strategic reshaping has you scanning the wider chip space, it could be a good moment to explore high growth tech and AI stocks for other potential semiconductor and AI driven opportunities.
With shares up more than 30 percent this year and trading only modestly below analyst targets, the key question now is whether Lattice still offers mispriced upside or if the market is already discounting its future growth.
Most Popular Narrative Narrative: 6.4% Undervalued
With Lattice Semiconductor closing at $75.13 against a most popular narrative fair value of $80.31, the story points to modest upside supported by ambitious growth and margin assumptions.
The analysts have a consensus price target of $63.077 for Lattice Semiconductor based on their expectations of its future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors. However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of $72.0, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just $52.0.
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Want to see what kind of revenue ramp, margin expansion, and future earnings multiple are reflected in that fair value estimate? The projections behind this call are described as anything but conservative.
Result: Fair Value of $80.31 (UNDERVALUED)
Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what’s behind the forecasts.
However, rising competition in low and mid range FPGAs, as well as potential regulatory or geopolitical shocks, could quickly derail those upbeat AI driven growth assumptions.
Find out about the key risks to this Lattice Semiconductor narrative.
Another Angle on Valuation
While the narrative fair value suggests Lattice is modestly undervalued, today’s price tells a very different story when you look at sales. The shares trade on a steep 20.8x price to sales, versus 5.3x for the US semiconductor industry and 11.4x for peers.
Our fair ratio points to a much lower 8.9x level that the market could eventually gravitate toward. This implies meaningful downside risk if sentiment cools or growth expectations are dialed back. The tension for investors is simple: do you trust the story or the sticker price?
See what the numbers say about this price — find out in our valuation breakdown.
NasdaqGS:LSCC PS Ratio as at Dec 2025
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