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Cohu Inc. COHU

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$453.0M
▲ 12.7% YoY
$-74.3M
$10.7M

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In brief

What this company does

Cohu, Inc. supplies semiconductor test automation and interface solutions, and provides semiconductor test equipment, inspection and metrology solutions, and software analytics to optimize semiconductor manufacturing yield and productivity. Its active equipment installed base exceeds 25,000 systems, serving over 280 high-volume manufacturing facilities across 108 customers in 31 countries. As of December 27, 2025, Cohu employed approximately 2,857 people across 25 countries, including about 80 temporary employees. It has one reportable segment, Semiconductor Test and Inspection Equipment. Cohu, Inc. was founded in 1947.

Written from the business description in COHU INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 17 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 453.0M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 453.0 · Net income -74.3
400M800M
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
−17.7%
−6.6%
+5.3%
+2.3%
−44.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −6.6% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−16 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -15.4% · Net -16.4%
10%20%-5%-10%-15%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -9.0%
10%20%-5%-10%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin42.7%
Operating margin-15.4%
Net margin-16.4%
EBITDAUSD -19.1M

Each USD of equity lost 9 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 8.6M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 10.7
40M80M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 8.6
20M40M-100M-200M
200920112013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paid·
Net buybacksUSD 8.6M
Share of profit-11.6%
Consecutive raises·

USD 8.6M in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 1.2B
EquityUSD 785.5M
CashUSD 227.1M
Gross debtUSD 296.1M
Net debtUSD 69.0M
Current ratio6.88×

Net debt stands at 9% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
COHU, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.50.40.60.80.90.60.60.50.40.30.30.30.20.20.30.30.2
Operating income $B−0.1−0.10.00.10.20.0−0.1−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0
EBITDA $B−0.0−0.00.10.20.30.10.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.0
Net income $B−0.1−0.10.00.10.2−0.0−0.1−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.0−0.00.10.10.10.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $−1.59−1.490.591.983.45−0.33−1.69−1.011.140.110.010.33−1.34−0.500.641.02−1.20
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌0.060.240.24◌◌◌0.240.240.240.240.240.24
Payout %———00−36−14−2220209248670−13−603723−20
ROE %−9.0−7.73.010.724.0−2.8−13.5−7.712.51.30.13.5−12.5−4.35.69.3−10.9
Shares out B0.050.050.050.050.050.040.040.040.030.030.030.030.030.020.020.02◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 73 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityInstruments For Meas & Testing of Electricity & Elec Signals
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 26
Data on record since2009

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