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AXTI AXT INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 00246W103 · Sector: Semiconductors

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
252
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+62
Last quarter 190 → now 252
How unusual is that
Top 5%
Stronger buying than 96% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

252 funds held AXTI at the end of 2026Q2, up 62 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 96.1% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $96M(YoY -0.1%), return on equity is -5.1%. AXTI has had 9 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +26.1% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Semiconductors sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=42 2013Q4: holders=39 2014Q1: holders=39 2014Q2: holders=35 2014Q3: holders=39 2014Q4: holders=48 2015Q1: holders=37 2015Q2: holders=36 2015Q3: holders=36 2015Q4: holders=32 2016Q1: holders=35 2016Q2: holders=45 2016Q3: holders=58 2016Q4: holders=74 2017Q1: holders=88 2017Q2: holders=93 2017Q3: holders=93 2017Q4: holders=106 2018Q1: holders=98 2018Q2: holders=87 2018Q3: holders=93 2018Q4: holders=88 2019Q1: holders=83 2019Q2: holders=90 2019Q3: holders=91 2019Q4: holders=87 2020Q1: holders=79 2020Q2: holders=97 2020Q3: holders=95 2020Q4: holders=95 2021Q1: holders=108 2021Q2: holders=101 2021Q3: holders=101 2021Q4: holders=95 2022Q1: holders=92 2022Q2: holders=100 2022Q3: holders=111 2022Q4: holders=107 2023Q1: holders=101 2023Q2: holders=98 2023Q3: holders=87 2023Q4: holders=89 2024Q1: holders=97 2024Q2: holders=92 2024Q3: holders=84 2024Q4: holders=81 2025Q1: holders=70 2025Q2: holders=62 2025Q3: holders=66 2025Q4: holders=112 2026Q1: holders=190 2026Q2: holders=252 -78 -39 +0 +39 +78 28147265 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 9 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 5%
2026Q1 Top 5%
2025Q4 Top 20% +339.4%
2022Q3 Top 20% -3.7% -32.9%
2022Q2 Top 20% -43.1% -36.0%
2020Q2 Top 20% +51.6% +146.9%
2019Q2 Top 20%
2017Q1 Top 20% +9.4% +26.6%
2016Q3 Top 20%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
138
Change in large funds
+51
Total value they hold
$3.3B
Funds buying for the first time
132
Funds that sold out entirely
70
Price change that quarter
-46.2%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
17
Funds holding calls (bullish)
20

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
EPS (TTM)
$-0.32
EPS YoY
Revenue (TTM)
$0.1B
Revenue YoY
-0.1%
Net margin
-14.7%
ROE
-5.1%
Debt ratio
24.2%
FCF (TTM)
-$28M
Dividend (TTM)
No dividend
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-06-30: EPS 0.13 2022-09-30: EPS 0.13 2022-12-31: EPS 0.03 2023-03-31: EPS -0.08 2023-06-30: EPS -0.12 2023-09-30: EPS -0.14 2023-12-31: EPS -0.09 2024-03-31: EPS -0.05 2024-06-30: EPS -0.04 2024-09-30: EPS -0.07 2024-12-31: EPS -0.11 2025-03-31: EPS -0.20 2025-06-30: EPS -0.16 2025-09-30: EPS -0.04 2025-12-31: EPS -0.09 2026-03-31: EPS -0.03 0M 20M 40M $M -0.22 -0.04 0.14 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
14 16 17 2023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-23M-8M6M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $-13M (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-03-31 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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