“System sales tend to be higher in the fourth quarter and lower in the first quarter, we believe due to the availability of residual funding for capital expenditures prior to the end of many end users’ fiscal years.”10-Q · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
Impinj, Inc.
PI
Market read
Impinj, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 4 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Operating cash flow moved from negative to positive in the comparable period.
- Revenue decreased 0.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- R&D expense increased $4.6M for the three months due primarily to $2.8M higher personnel costs, $1.9M higher stock-based compensation and $0.6M infrastructure costs.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if PI's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 4 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Operating cash flow moved from negative to positive in the comparable period.
- Revenue decreased 0.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- The operating loss widened by 5.6M.
- Cash declined 29.0M versus the comparable period.
- R&D expense increased $4.6M for the three months due primarily to $2.8M higher personnel costs, $1.9M higher stock-based compensation and $0.6M infrastructure costs.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Operating margin changed +1.7 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Latest annual revenue changed -1.4% year over year.
- Net margin changed -14.2 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Macroeconomic conditions has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- EV/sales is 92% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
176.96Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“21 Table of Contents Six months ended June 30, 2026 compared with six months ended June 30, 2025 Research and development expense increased $8.0 million, due primarily to increases of $5.3 million in personnel expenses due to higher headcount and higher bonus…”10-Q · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
“We also see quarter-to-quarter revenue and gross margin variability due to macroeconomic conditions, program-launch timing and our ability to migrate OEMs and end users to newer, lower cost products.”10-Q · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
“The operating expense decrease was due to lower sales and marketing costs, general and administrative costs, restructuring costs and amortization of intangibles, partially offset by increased research and development costs.”10-Q · Oct 29, 2025 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 14.4× · EV/sales 14.7×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for PI. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
The latest filing shows material pressure
10-Q filed 2026-04-29 against the comparable filing from 2025-04-23.
What improved
- Operating cash flow moved from negative to positive in the comparable period.
What weakened
- Revenue decreased 0.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- The operating loss widened by 5.6M.
- Cash declined 29.0M versus the comparable period.
Filing receipts
“Results of Operations The following table presents our results of operations for the periods indicated: Three Months Ended March 31, (in thousands, except percentages) 2026 2025 Change Revenue $ 74,250 $ 74,277 $ (27 ) Gross profit $ 36,459 $ 36,681 $ (222 ) Gross margin 49.1 % 49.4 % (0.3 )% Loss from operations $ (15,168 ) $ (9,569 ) $ (5,599 ) Three months ended March 31, 2026 compared with three months ended March 31, 2025 Revenue and gross profit decreased, due primarily to decreased systems revenue partially offset by higher endpoint IC revenue.”
“Three months ended March 31, 2026 compared with three months ended March 31, 2025 Endpoint IC revenue increased $2.0 million, due to a $7.9 million increase in shipment volumes offset by a $5.9 million decrease from lower ASP due to product mix and new customer pricing that went into effect at the beginning of the year.”
“Three months ended March 31, 2026 compared with three months ended March 31, 2025 Gross profit and gross margin decreased, due primarily to higher indirect costs in the current year compared to the prior-year period and revenue mix, partially offset by higher endpoint IC gross margin due to product mix.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind PI
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
SFDMYFiling-linked namecompetitorApr 29, 2026 ▾
“Our primary competition includes: • Endpoint ICs: NXP B.V., or NXP, Kiloway, Quanray, Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group, Alibaba and Alien Technology Corporation, or Alien.”
PLXSPlexus Corp.supplierFeb 9, 2026 ▾
“Plexus Corp., or Plexus, manufactures our readers and gateways in Asia and has been our supplier since 2005.”
Depended on by
ZBRAZebra Technologies CorporationcompetitorFeb 12, 2026 ▾
“RFID and RTLS Offerings : We compete with numerous companies operating in this market including Chainway, Impinj, Invengo, JADAK, Rodinbell, TSC and Ubisense.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
PI is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group RFID Connectivity. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for PI; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.