LPKF Laser: A Record Rally Meets Analyst Caution as Orders Rise but Losses Linger
Published on 06/25/2026 at 13:38 | Redaktion boerse-global.de
The 316% surge that drove LPKF Laser from a sub-€6 start to a fresh 52-week high of €30.20 earlier this week has suddenly run out of steam. By Thursday, the stock had slipped a further 2.38% to €24.60 — dragging the pullback from that Monday peak to nearly 19%. For a company that just landed in the SDAX, the speed of the reversal is unusually sharp.
The disconnect between market euphoria and underlying fundamentals is becoming harder to ignore. Warburg, for instance, rates the shares a hold with a €12.30 price target — suggesting more than 50% downside from current levels. Montega goes even further, setting fair value at just €9.00. Both targets were issued before the recent rally and have yet to be revised upward by any house. The stock currently trades at more than double even the higher of those two estimates.
Investors are pricing in a future that the company’s latest numbers don’t yet confirm. LPKF’s first-quarter sales slid to €17.1 million, while the operating loss widened to €6.9 million. The culprit is a collapsing solar business that continues to drag on the top line. Yet there are genuine bright spots: order intake climbed above €24 million, driven by semiconductor and glass-processing equipment. The company is in active talks with multiple customers about first production tools for advanced packaging, and its new LIDE technology is already running in numerous test environments.
That order momentum helps explain why the market is looking past the current red ink. But management has so far refused to embed any potential volume orders from these nascent businesses into its full-year guidance. For fiscal 2025, LPKF expects revenue of between €105 million and €120 million, with an adjusted operating margin peaking at 4.5%. Fragile supply chains add another layer of uncertainty.
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Technical factors are also weighing on the shares after the rally. The 200-day moving average sits at €10.43, meaning the stock remains more than 135% above that level — an extreme stretch that historically leaves equities vulnerable to sharp corrections when buying pressure fades. The 14-day relative strength index has already dropped back to 53.3 from overbought territory, and the 50-day average of €21.72 is now viewed as the next support level.
A weaker tone from Wall Street did not help. The Nasdaq closed Wednesday down 0.43% as renewed concerns over AI stock valuations and interest-rate uncertainty rattled tech investors. LPKF, after its outsized run, gets hit harder than most peers in such jitters.
Fundamentally, the broader environment for the German electrical industry remains supportive. The ZVEI industry association forecasts real growth of around 2% for 2026, following sector sales of roughly €227 billion in 2025. LPKF’s focus on semiconductors and printed circuit boards aligns with European policy initiatives such as the Chips Act, discussed at this year’s EBL 2026 conference. Strong quarterly results from Micron also underscore sustained demand in the AI infrastructure space.
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But the “show me” moment for LPKF investors is fast approaching. The company will release its half-year report on July 23. Until then, the wide gap between a stock that has tripled in value and analysts who see it trading below €13 will keep the market on edge. Without concrete order announcements for LIDE or advanced packaging tools, the current valuation looks increasingly difficult to defend.
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