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Camtek

CAMT on Nasdaq. Optical instruments & lenses. Market value $7.7bn.

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This company reports once a year (it is based outside the US), so every figure comes from its annual report for the year to December 2025.

We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.

Should I look at this?

Good business, but not cheap right now

Why it could be worth it

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Cash yield
annual report to December 2025
1.8%low

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $1.80 of spare cash last year. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
annual report to December 2025
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Quality score: 80 of 100. Price score: 30 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$154.55 a share, 68% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $91.91 to $215.99.

Pays no dividend

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.1
0.0
0.1
0.1
0.1
20212022202320242025
Revenue
$270m$321m$315m$429m$496m
Operating margin
26.3%25.4%20.7%25.2%25.8%
Debt to equity
n/an/an/an/an/a
Shares outstanding
0.04bn0.04bn0.04bn0.05bn0.05bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)6 of 8 checks we could run
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • DebtUnknown
  • Revenue growth, five yearsStrong, 26.1% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
19 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
n/a

Who owns it

2 long-term investors we follow own it, up from 1 last quarter. 235 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

3 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 6 sold $5m.

  • Geva-Dvash Orit
    Vice President, HR
    Sold
    Date
    17 August 2026
    Shares
    508
    Price
    $175.00
    Value
    $88,900
  • Andorn Karni Yarl
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    14 August 2026
    Shares
    3,176
    Price
    $164.40
    Value
    $522,134
  • Andorn Karni Yarl
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    13 August 2026
    Shares
    2,356
    Price
    $172.35
    Value
    $406,066
  • Langer Ram
    Chief Operating Officer
    Sold
    Date
    13 August 2026
    Shares
    6,387
    Price
    $172.32
    Value
    $1m
  • AMIT RAFI
    Chief Executive Officer
    Sold
    Date
    13 August 2026
    Shares
    6,250
    Price
    $170.52
    Value
    $1m
  • Geva-Dvash Orit
    Vice President, HR
    Sold
    Date
    12 August 2026
    Shares
    415
    Price
    $174.06
    Value
    $72,236
  • Aviram Lior
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    12 August 2026
    Shares
    3,347
    Price
    $173.87
    Value
    $581,943
  • Eisenberg Moshe
    Chief Financial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    12 August 2026
    Shares
    645
    Price
    $172.67
    Value
    $111,373
  • Aviram Lior
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    11 August 2026
    Shares
    3,347
    Price
    $162.99
    Value
    $545,530
  • Eisenberg Moshe
    Chief Financial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    11 August 2026
    Shares
    3,759
    Price
    $160.06
    Value
    $601,651

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

Camtek doesn’t file a US annual report (10-K), so we haven’t checked it.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.

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The deep dive

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