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Himax Technologies, Inc. HIMX

9 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2017 reported · SEC filings only
$685.2M
▼ 14.7% YoY
$28.0M
▼ 45.1% YoY
$-10.4M
▼ 113.6% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Himax Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company whose display driver ICs and timing controllers are used across industries including TVs, PC monitors, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, automotive, ePaper devices and industrial displays. For automotive displays it offers driver ICs, in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI), local dimming timing controllers (Local Dimming TCON), Large Touch and Display Driver Integration (LTDI) and OLED technologies. Its WiseEye Ultralow Power AI Sensing technology, which incorporates a Himax ultralow power AI processor, an always-on CMOS image sensor and a CNN-based AI algorithm, is deployed in consumer electronics and AIoT applications. Its optics technologies include wafer level optics (WLO), LCoS microdisplays and 3D sensing solutions used in AR/VR applications. As of December 31, 2025, it sold its products to around 300 customers. Its ten largest customers together accounted for approximately 71.3% of its revenues in 2025. It has offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei, Taiwan, and in Shenzen and Suzhou, China.

Written from the business description in Himax Technologies, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 685.2M
Revenue, FY2017 · full 9-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2017 · Revenue 685.2 · Net income 28.0
400M800M200920102011201220132014201520162017
Compound annual growth
−6.6%
−1.5%
−25.1%
−11.5%
−25.0%
−11.8%
−3.9%
+30.3%
−3.6%
+31.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −1.5% a year over five years.

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
4 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2017 · Operating 1.2% · Net 3.8%
5%200920102011201220132014201520162017
ROE
FY2017 · ROE 6.1%
5%10%200920102011201220132014201520162017

Each USD of equity produced 6 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 41.3M
returned in FY2017 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2017 · FCF -10.4
40M80M-4M-8M200920102011201220132014201520162017
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2017 · Dividends 41.3 · Net buybacks —
20M40M200920102011201220132014201520162017

USD 41.3M in dividends — 148% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 802.1M
EquityUSD 456.6M
CashUSD 138.0M
Gross debtUSD 147.0M
Net debtUSD 9.0M
Current ratio1.96×

Net debt stands at 2% of equity.

The 9-year record
9 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.70.80.70.80.80.70.60.60.7
Operating income $B0.00.10.00.10.10.10.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.00.10.00.10.10.10.00.00.1
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.10.00.10.10.10.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B−0.00.10.00.10.00.00.00.10.1
EPS, diluted $0.080.150.070.190.180.150.030.090.11
Dividend / sh $0.120.070.150.140.120.030.060.120.15
Payout %14844204696921198133140
ROE %6.111.25.514.414.012.62.78.2·
Shares out B0.340.340.340.340.340.340.350.35·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 32 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 9 of 19 fiscal years. 54 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivitySemiconductors & Related Devices
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code E9
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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