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The Astera Labs story

Astera Labs makes chips and software that connect cloud and AI systems, with the next transition depending on whether Scorpio fabric switches can expand its business beyond signal conditioning.

Astera Labs stock reportTenQ Score 21/36 · every chart and check from its filings
  • $285.82share price, last close
  • $49.6Bmarket value
  • 21/36TenQ Score checks passed
  • 57.6%growth a year the price assumes

The story in brief

  • Scorpio takes center stage. Management expects Scorpio fabric switches to become its largest product family in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, ahead of its prior expectations.
  • Customers remain concentrated. Astera Labs’ top three end customers represented approximately 86% of revenue in 2025, making individual deployment decisions important to its growth.
  • Cash supports expansion. Astera Labs has $1.3 billion in cash and short-term investments and $0 in total debt, alongside $277 million in free cash flow over the last twelve months.

What drives the business

  • Astera Labs builds connectivity chips, boards, and modules for hyperscalers, AI accelerator vendors, and system manufacturers, with its embedded COSMOS software helping customers configure and monitor cloud and AI infrastructure.
  • Aries restores high-speed signals, Taurus connects servers and switches, Leo expands memory access, and Scorpio connects AI accelerators, giving the company products across computing, networking, and memory bottlenecks.
  • In February 2026, Astera Labs entered into a Transaction Agreement with Amazon.com and a Warrant Agreement with Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC covering up to 3,262,299 shares of common stock.
  • Its October 2025 agreement to acquire aiXscale Photonics was intended to combine fiber-chip coupling technology with Astera Labs’ connectivity portfolio, extending its development work into optical connections for AI systems.
  • Revenue reached $392.4 million in the quarter to June 2026, up 27% sequentially and 104% year-over-year, with broad portfolio growth and record Aries revenue.

What the price assumes

At $389.80 per share, the reverse DCF implies that free cash flow after stock pay grows 63.1% a year for ten years, using a 10.3% discount rate.

Astera Labs delivered 111.0% growth on that measure over the last twelve months, but sustaining growth across ten years is a different requirement from that recent result.

The implied pace exceeds the TenQ check’s 57.5% bar, which slows the recent record halfway to 4%, so the growth assumption fails that check.

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What could change the story

  • Customer concentration is compounded by arrangements typically made through purchase orders rather than long-term commitments, leaving revenue exposed to changes in major customers’ deployment plans.
  • TSMC fabricates all of Astera Labs’ integrated circuits, while a limited number of other manufacturing partners handle assembly, packaging, testing, boards, and modules, making production continuity important as Scorpio volumes expand.
  • Revenue growth over the last twelve months was 98.5%, below the 120.2% annual pace over the last three years, so the growth acceleration check fails despite strong reported expansion.
  • Stock-based pay of $195 million over the last twelve months is substantial against $277 million in free cash flow, and there were no share repurchases to offset staff issuance.
  • The free cash flow yield is 0.4%, below the TenQ check’s 3.0% bar, leaving a wide gap between the market valuation and cash generation.

What to watch next

  • For the third quarter of fiscal 2026, management expects revenue of $540 million to $560 million, driven by the Scorpio X-Series production ramp, with Scorpio becoming the largest product family.
  • The gross margin comparison is important: GAAP guidance is approximately 72%, versus 73.3% in the quarter to June 2026.
  • Management also expects GAAP operating expenses of approximately $232 million to $236 million and GAAP diluted earnings per share of approximately $0.87 to $0.92, providing measures of how the revenue expansion translates into profit.
  • Subsequent releases will show whether broader customer design wins reduce concentration and whether free cash flow growth continues after accounting for stock pay.

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