Daktronics Inc (DAKT)

Daktronics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells electronic display systems and related solutions for sports, commercial, and transportation applications in the United States and internationally. It operates through Commercial, Live Events, High School Park and Recreation, Transportation, and International segments. The company offers video display and walls; sport scoreboard solutions; LED message displays and sings; intelligent transportation systems dynamic message signs; mass transit display; sound systems; and digital billboards and street furniture, and digit and price displays. It also provides indoor dynamic messaging systems; and software and controllers, which includes Venus, a control suite software to efficiently distribute and update content across single or multiple displays. The company serves out-of-home companies, retailers, quick-serve restaurants, casinos, shopping centers, cruise ships, commercial building owners, petroleum retailers, governmental transportation departments, transportation industry contractors, airlines, and sports and commercial business facilities. It sells its products through direct sales and resellers. Daktronics, Inc. was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Brookings, South Dakota.

Ticker: DAKT
Exchange: Nasdaq
Sector: Technology
Industry: Electronic Components
Market cap: $935.27M
52-week range: $16.77 - $28.27

Valuation

Share price: $19.41 (close of Nov 6, 2026)
P/E (TTM): 19.61x
Price to book: 2.94x
Price to free cash flow: 23.50x
Enterprise value: $791.19M
Book value per share: $6.59

Price performance

Period	Change
1 day	+0.88%
5 days	+2.92%
1 month	+8.74%
3 months	-10.72%
6 months	-3.29%
Year to date	-1.82%
1 year	+0.83%
3 years	+101.77%
5 years	+227.87%
10 years	+133.86%
All time	+1,578.70%

Short interest

As of: Oct 15, 2026
Short % of float: 5.07%
Shares short: 2.33M
Days to cover: 5.09
Change since prior report: -5.83%
Source: FINRA consolidated short interest

Profitability and growth

Return on equity: 15.09%
Return on invested capital: 15.21%
Return on assets: 8.18%
Return on capital employed: 16.87%
Gross margin: 27.30%
Net margin: 5.41%
EBITDA margin: 9.56%
Revenue growth: 10.87%
Free cash flow growth: -56.15%

Cash flow and balance sheet

Free cash flow yield (TTM): 4.26%
Current ratio: 2.17x
Net debt to EBITDA: -1.79x

Latest reported year

Period end: May 2, 2026
Fiscal year: 2026
Revenue: $838.71M
Cost of revenue: $609.70M
Gross profit: $229.01M
EBITDA: $80.19M
Net income: $45.38M
Earnings per share: $0.93
Research and development: $43.46M
Interest expense: $1.46M
Shares outstanding: 48.56M

Income statement by year

Period end	Revenue	Gross profit	Net income	EPS
2026-05-02	$838.71M	$229.01M	$45.38M	$0.93
2025-04-26	$756.48M	$195.49M	-$10.12M	-$0.21
2024-04-27	$818.08M	$222.44M	$34.62M	$0.75
2023-04-29	$754.20M	$151.35M	$6.80M	$0.15
2022-04-30	$610.97M	$116.70M	$592.00K	$0.01
2021-05-01	$482.03M	$120.58M	$10.93M	$0.24
2020-05-02	$608.93M	$138.70M	$491.00K	$0.01
2019-04-27	$569.70M	$130.29M	-$958.00K	-$0.02
2018-04-28	$610.53M	$145.67M	$5.56M	$0.13
2017-04-29	$586.54M	$140.41M	$10.34M	$0.23

Margins and returns by year

Period end	Gross margin	Net margin	Return on equity	Return on capital
2026-05-02	27.30%	5.41%	15.09%	15.21%
2025-04-26	25.84%	-1.34%	-3.72%	10.09%
2024-04-27	27.19%	4.23%	14.50%	22.91%
2023-04-29	20.07%	0.90%	3.39%	6.76%
2022-04-30	19.10%	0.10%	0.31%	1.82%
2021-05-01	25.02%	2.27%	5.64%	7.15%
2020-05-02	22.78%	0.08%	0.28%	-0.05%
2019-04-27	22.87%	-0.17%	-0.51%	-1.21%
2018-04-28	23.86%	0.91%	2.81%	3.15%
2017-04-29	23.94%	1.76%	5.22%	5.13%

Cash and debt by year

Period end	Cash	Debt
2026-05-02	$131.64M	$9.63M
2025-04-26	$127.51M	$10.49M
2024-04-27	$81.30M	$53.16M
2023-04-29	$23.98M	$17.75M
2022-04-30	$17.14M	-
2021-05-01	$77.59M	-
2020-05-02	$41.63M	-
2019-04-27	$61.73M	-
2018-04-28	$64.25M	-
2017-04-29	$65.34M	-

Free cash flow by year

Period end	Free cash flow	Stock-based compensation
2026-05-02	$34.30M	$4.91M
2025-04-26	$78.22M	$2.94M
2024-04-27	$46.26M	$2.09M
2023-04-29	-$10.36M	$2.03M
2022-04-30	-$47.41M	$1.97M
2021-05-01	$58.32M	$2.07M
2020-05-02	-$7.28M	$2.27M
2019-04-27	$12.28M	$2.48M
2018-04-28	$12.23M	$2.63M
2017-04-29	$30.91M	$2.91M

Dividend history

Most recent payment: Mar 6, 2020

Payment date	Dividend per share
2020-03-06	$0.05
2019-12-13	$0.05
2019-09-13	$0.05
2019-06-07	$0.05
2019-03-08	$0.07
2018-12-07	$0.07
2018-09-14	$0.07
2018-06-08	$0.07

Investor relations

Next earnings report

Next confirmed report: Dec 9, 2026
Consensus EPS estimate: $0.31

Past earnings dates

Reported	Fiscal period	EPS estimate
2026-09-02	Jul 2026	$0.35
2026-06-24	Apr 2026	$0.23
2026-03-04	Jan 2026	$0.18
2025-12-10	Oct 2025	$0.27
2025-09-10	Jul 2025	$0.24
2025-06-25	Apr 2025	$0.18
2025-03-05	Jan 2025	$0.09
2024-12-04	Oct 2024	$0.17

Filings and sources

Company website: daktronics.com
SEC filings: 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
Earnings calendar: All upcoming reports

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