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.
- Symbol
- DAKT
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Electronic Components
- Market cap
- $850.47M
- 52 week range
- 17.09 - 28.27
Valuation
- Share price
- $17.68 (close of 2026-09-23)
- P/E (TTM)
- 17.83x
- Price to book
- 2.68x
- Price to free cash flow
- 21.37x
- Enterprise value
- $706.39M
- Book value per share
- $6.59
Price performance
| Period | Change |
|---|
| 1 day | +0.11% |
| 5 days | -0.34% |
| 1 month | -7.92% |
| 3 months | -12.08% |
| 6 months | -15.08% |
| Year to date | -10.57% |
| 1 year | -19.93% |
| 3 years | +100.23% |
| 5 years | +222.63% |
| 10 years | +79.67% |
| All time | +1424.14% |
Profitability and growth
- Return on equity
- 15.09%
- Return on invested capital
- 26.15%
- 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%
- Net income growth
- 548.34%
- Free cash flow growth
- -56.15%
Cash flow and balance sheet
- Free cash flow yield (TTM)
- 4.68%
- Current ratio
- 2.17x
- Net debt to EBITDA
- -1.79x
Latest reported year
- Period end
- 2026-05-02
- 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% | 26.15% |
| 2025-04-26 | 25.84% | -1.34% | -3.72% | 18.21% |
| 2024-04-27 | 27.19% | 4.23% | 14.50% | 31.61% |
| 2023-04-29 | 20.07% | 0.90% | 3.39% | 7.58% |
| 2022-04-30 | 19.10% | 0.10% | 0.31% | 2.00% |
| 2021-05-01 | 25.02% | 2.27% | 5.64% | 11.86% |
| 2020-05-02 | 22.78% | 0.08% | 0.28% | -0.06% |
| 2019-04-27 | 22.87% | -0.17% | -0.51% | -1.76% |
| 2018-04-28 | 23.86% | 0.91% | 2.81% | 4.67% |
| 2017-04-29 | 23.94% | 1.76% | 5.22% | 7.65% |
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
- 2020-03-06
| 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
Past earnings dates
| Reported | Fiscal period | EPS estimate |
|---|
| 2026-09-02 | Jul/2026 | $0.35 |
| 2026-06-24 | - | - |
| 2026-03-04 | - | - |
| 2025-12-10 | - | - |
| 2025-09-10 | - | - |
| 2025-06-25 | - | - |
| 2025-03-05 | - | - |
| 2024-12-04 | - | - |
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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