“This impact is calculated by translating the current period results at the currency exchange rates used in the comparable prior year period as well as removing realized cash flow hedge gains and losses from both the current and prior year periods.”10-Q · May 12, 2026 ↗
Zebra Technologies Corporation
ZBRA
Market read
Zebra Technologies Corporation's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing is mixed. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 14.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 0.5 percentage points.
- ZBRA's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if ZBRA's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing is mixed. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 14.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 0.5 percentage points.
- Net margin fell 1.4 percentage points.
- ZBRA's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
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?
- Latest annual revenue changed +8.3% year over year.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 2.19x in the latest annual period.
- Foreign exchange has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 3 filings.
- Operating margin changed -1.9 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed -2.8 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Tariffs and trade policy has repeated adverse evidence across 3 filings.
No credible peer-relative valuation comparison is available yet.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
350.40Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“2025 compared to 2024 Total Net sales increased $415 million or 8.3% compared to the prior year reflecting growth in both our AVA and CF segments associated with improved demand trends that began in the middle of 2024, along with contributions from our recent…”10-K · Feb 12, 2026 ↗
“Gross margin decreased to 47.2% in the current year compared to 49.2% in the prior year primarily due to unfavorable impacts of tariffs, net of mitigating actions, and lower services and software margins, partly offset by volume leverage favorability.”10-K · Feb 12, 2026 ↗
“Total other expense, net, increased primarily due to non-recurring interest rate swap gains in the prior year and foreign exchange transaction losses in the current year, partly offset by lower net interest costs associated with the Company’s borrowings drive…”10-K · Feb 12, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Peer-relative valuation withheld
Jodie found no industry-matched filing peers suitable for a valuation comparison. It will not substitute broader financial-sector names.
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 ZBRA. 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 presents a mixed picture
10-Q filed 2026-05-12 against the comparable filing from 2025-04-29.
What improved
- Revenue increased 14.3% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
- Operating margin fell 0.5 percentage points.
- Net margin fell 1.4 percentage points.
Filing receipts
“Total Other expense, net increased primarily due to realized losses associated with the sales of certain long-term investments in the first quarter, as well as lower interest income on cash equivalents.”
“2026 compared to 2025 The change in our cash and cash equivalents balance during the three months ended April 4, 2026 compared to the prior year was primarily due to the following: • $2 million decrease in net operating cash inflows primarily due to the timing of vendor payments and customer collections, largely offset by lower incentive compensation payments in the current year.”
“First quarter 2026 compared to first quarter 2025 Total Net sales for CF increased $141 million or 20.6% compared to the prior year, primarily due to the inclusion of Elo Touch, higher sales of mobile computers, and favorable impact of foreign currency.”
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 ZBRA
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
Depended on by
SCSCScanSource, Inc.supplierAug 21, 2025 ▾
“Our key suppliers includ e AT&T, Avaya, Axis, Cisco, Comcast Business, Dell, Elo, Extreme, Five9, Fortinet, Hanwha, Honeywell, HP Poly, HPE/Aruba, Ingenico, Lumen, Microsoft, NiCE, RingCentral, Ubiquiti, Verifone, Verizon, Zebra Technologies and Zoom.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
ZBRA is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group RFID & Barcode Systems. 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 ZBRA; 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.