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Ubiquiti

Business WiFi, switches, cameras and door readers, sold online without salespeople or licence fees and all run from one free piece of software.

Our viewNeutral Medium conviction
The scores
The profile · 1-4
Growth3/4 ↑

Two fast organic years after a flat one, and the growth narrows to one platform while the other shrinks.

Business quality3/4 →

Measured in five rivals' own accounts and taking share - but nothing stops a buyer leaving, and Omada ships the same model.

Financial position4/4 ↑

Net cash, no debt at all, nothing to refinance, and free cash flow is 4.7 times the dividend it pays.

Execution record3/4 →

The operating record is clean and unbroken, but it guides nothing to be measured against and its legal note names none of four live disputes.

Per share capture4/4 →

Share count rose 0.05% on stock pay worth a fifth of a percent of sales; no deals, no convertibles, dividend paid.

Potential2/4 →

Nothing is contracted - distributors commit to nothing - and the market it sells into cannot be sized in units from any free source.

Risk profile2/4 ↓

Several externally controlled matters each resolve in one step: a customs determination, two lawsuits, and firmware licences terminable each year.

Valuation2/4 ↑

The price pays for the plan and for the best operating margin the company has ever earned holding, with operating costs already near their floor.

Evidence quality3/4 →

Central claims are filings or government data, but the size of the surcharge inside revenue is disclosed nowhere, so revenue quality cannot be checked.

The Verdict

We rate Ubiquiti neutral. It sells business WiFi, switches and cameras online, with no sales force, reseller or licence fee, and that low cost lets it win share in a market that is not growing. It is a solid, very profitable business, already at its best-ever margin. The price is full, not cheap: it still counts on years of fast growth from that peak, which must all come from selling more. The view hinges on whether selling costs stay low and the margin holds as component costs rise, and on surcharges its annual report never mentions.

The long caseUbiquiti rides no rising market: schools and businesses switching to networking gear they own outright is a share gain, and it must keep winning share to justify the price.

The evidence under this - 7 claims
C02facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti employs no traditional direct sales force; it drives demand through online reviews, its own website, its distributors and the installer community it calls the Ubiquiti Community.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C07facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti spent 3.72% of fiscal 2026 revenue on selling, general and administrative expense and 6.24% on research and development - total operating expenses of 9.95% of revenue.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
C08facthigh confidence
Of the five other US-listed networking vendors whose own filings state the line, none spends less than 16.6% of revenue on selling and administration: Cisco 22.6%, Fortinet 38.0%, Extreme Networks 38.1%, HPE 16.6%, NETGEAR 29.5% - against Ubiquiti's 3.7%.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C10factmedium confidence
Ubiquiti's share of US school access-point purchases almost doubled while the channel itself stood still: its units went from 44,748 in funding year 2023 to 85,263 in 2026, a share of 3.53% rising to 6.85%, against all-vendor totals of 1,267,218 and 1,244,669.
against this
  • Its share fell for the first time in funding year 2026, from 7.01% to 6.85%, and its units from 91,430 to 85,263.
  • Funding year 2026 carries 319,430 line items against 347,380 for 2025 across the whole dataset, so the newest year may be incomplete and the fall may be an artefact of the filing window rather than of demand.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2023 to 2026written 2026-09-16
C49facthigh confidence
At $562.75 the enterprise value of $33.62B is 28.4 times fiscal 2026 operating profit of $1,185.4M, and the shares are 35.5 times reported earnings against a six-year median of 32.8, 10.4 times sales against 9.4, and 23.6 times what it owns minus what it owes against 29.8.
current state · 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
C30factmedium confidence
On Ubiquiti's own US storefront, 78% of 136 listed products carry a price uplift over their base price through named surcharges - a Memory surcharge on 69% and a Tariff surcharge on 21% - of 6.1% to 15.1%, median 7.8%.
against this
  • The sample is the four category pages the storefront server-renders - cameras and recorders, cloud gateways, switching and WiFi - and not the whole catalogue, so the proportions describe those four categories rather than all revenue.
  • A surcharge the buyer pays is pricing power only while the buyer keeps paying it, and nothing in the data says what happened to unit volumes after it was added around October 2025.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C31facthigh confidence
The word "surcharge" appears nowhere in Ubiquiti's fiscal 2026 annual report, although it is charging two of them on its own storefront and 45% of revenue goes through that storefront.
current state · 2026-08-21written 2026-09-16
01

The company

A school, shop or office needs WiFi, switches to wire it together, cameras and door readers. Ubiquiti designs all of them, has contractors in Vietnam and China make them, and runs them from one program, UniFi, that it gives away. 45% of sales go through its own web store.

The alternative is Cisco Meraki: the same boxes, bought through a reseller, each needing a paid licence to work at all. In US school purchases, a Ubiquiti WiFi point costs $275 against Meraki's $645.

The evidence under this - 6 claims
C01facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti sells business networking hardware - internet gateways, WiFi access points, ethernet switches, video cameras, door readers and a phone system - all managed from one software platform it writes itself.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C03facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti gives the management software away: it states that it has historically included implied post-contract customer support free of charge in many of its arrangements, and attributes a portion of revenue to it.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C55facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti's contract manufacturers are primarily in Vietnam and China, it expects three to six months to move them, it depends on a single or limited number of suppliers for several components including chipsets, and the licences that let it replace firmware on those chipsets renew annually and are terminable without cause.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C12facthigh confidence
Direct sales through Ubiquiti's own webstores were 45% of fiscal 2026 revenue against 44% in fiscal 2025; distributors were 55% and 56%.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
C04facthigh confidence
Cisco Meraki, the incumbent Ubiquiti displaces, states in its own documentation that each device requires a licence to function, that licences and hardware are sold separately, and that an out-of-compliance organisation is shut down after a 30-day grace period.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C05facthigh confidence
In US school purchasing, a Ubiquiti access point costs $275 per unit against Cisco Meraki's $645, Cisco's $723, Aruba's $485 and Extreme Networks' $443; on switches it is $1,191 against Meraki's $3,178.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16

How it makes money

It makes its money on the box, once. There is nothing to renew: in US school purchases, licences are 0.6% of what is spent on Ubiquiti against 36.6% of what is spent on Meraki. So every sale has to be won again, and no customer reaches 10% of sales.

The evidence under this - 2 claims
C06facthigh confidence
Licences are 0.6% of Ubiquiti's US E-Rate dollars against 36.6% of Cisco Meraki's, 21.9% of Extreme Networks', 17.4% of Cisco's own and 13.5% of Aruba's.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16
C29facthigh confidence
No customer was 10% or more of revenue in fiscal 2026, 2025 or 2024, across over 100 distributors in over 75 countries; but two customers were 10% and 11% of accounts receivable at 2026-06-30, both under 10% a year earlier.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
Where the money comes from, stream by stream
StreamShare of sales (FY2026)How it earns it
Enterprise Technology90.8%UniFi gateways, WiFi, switches, cameras, door access and phones, sold as hardware with the management software included free.
Service Provider Technology9.2%airMAX, airFiber, UFiber and GPON radios and fibre gear sold to internet providers building wireless and fibre access networks.

Who runs it

Robert Pera founded Ubiquiti in 2003 and has run it since it started trading in 2005; Kevin Radigan has run the books since 2016. They are the only two officers. Pera owns 93% and takes no salary or stock awards, so he is paid the way every shareholder is, through dividends and the share price. Radigan's bonus is left to the board's discretion. Since a director died in late 2025 the board has had three members and no replacement has been reported.

The evidence under this - 4 claims
C58facthigh confidence
Robert Pera founded Ubiquiti in October 2003, has been its chief executive since it began operating in 2005 and chairman since December 2012; Kevin Radigan has been chief accounting officer since May 2016 and chief accounting and finance officer since fiscal 2019. They are the only two executive officers, and both signed the fiscal 2026 10-K in those roles.
current state · 2026-08-21written 2026-10-04
C45facthigh confidence
Robert Pera beneficially owned 56,278,181 shares, 93% of the company, and all four directors and the one other executive officer together 93.1%.
current state · 2025-10-17written 2026-09-16
C59facthigh confidence
Pera has taken a base salary of $0 since July 2013 and no equity award since fiscal 2011; his only reported pay is personal use of the company aircraft, $630,709 in fiscal 2025. Radigan is paid a $500,000 salary, a bonus at the board's discretion with a target of $100,000 for fiscal 2025 and $200,000 for fiscal 2026, and time-vesting restricted stock units. No performance metric is named for either, there are no stock ownership guidelines, and the next say-on-pay vote is at the 2026 annual meeting.
current state · 2025-10-24written 2026-10-04
C60facthigh confidence
Director Ronald Sege died on 2025-11-30, leaving a three-member board and a two-member audit committee, and the NYSE notified Ubiquiti on 2025-12-04 that it no longer met the three-member audit committee rule; no 8-K since has reported a new director, and the fiscal 2026 10-K was signed by three directors.
current state · 2026-08-21written 2026-10-04
02

Why it wins, and who could beat it

Why customers come back

Its advantage is cost. It pays for neither a sales force nor a channel: installers learn the platform, recommend it and answer each other's questions in a forum Ubiquiti hosts. Selling and administration take 3.7% of its sales, against 16.6% to 38.1% at five US-listed rivals, so it can charge less than half Meraki's price and still out-earn Cisco on operating margin.

The outside proof: its units in US school WiFi purchases went from 44,748 to 85,263 in three years while the market stood still.

The evidence under this - 6 claims
C02facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti employs no traditional direct sales force; it drives demand through online reviews, its own website, its distributors and the installer community it calls the Ubiquiti Community.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C07facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti spent 3.72% of fiscal 2026 revenue on selling, general and administrative expense and 6.24% on research and development - total operating expenses of 9.95% of revenue.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
C08facthigh confidence
Of the five other US-listed networking vendors whose own filings state the line, none spends less than 16.6% of revenue on selling and administration: Cisco 22.6%, Fortinet 38.0%, Extreme Networks 38.1%, HPE 16.6%, NETGEAR 29.5% - against Ubiquiti's 3.7%.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C05facthigh confidence
In US school purchasing, a Ubiquiti access point costs $275 per unit against Cisco Meraki's $645, Cisco's $723, Aruba's $485 and Extreme Networks' $443; on switches it is $1,191 against Meraki's $3,178.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16
C09facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti earns a lower gross margin than Cisco, Fortinet or Extreme Networks and a higher operating margin than any of them: 46.2% and 36.2%, against Cisco's 64.5% and 24.3%, Fortinet's 80.5% and 30.7%, and Extreme's 61.5% and 4.9%.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C10factmedium confidence
Ubiquiti's share of US school access-point purchases almost doubled while the channel itself stood still: its units went from 44,748 in funding year 2023 to 85,263 in 2026, a share of 3.53% rising to 6.85%, against all-vendor totals of 1,267,218 and 1,244,669.
against this
  • Its share fell for the first time in funding year 2026, from 7.01% to 6.85%, and its units from 91,430 to 85,263.
  • Funding year 2026 carries 319,430 line items against 347,380 for 2025 across the whole dataset, so the newest year may be incomplete and the fall may be an artefact of the filing window rather than of demand.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2023 to 2026written 2026-09-16

The threat

TP-Link's Omada copies the model: one controller for WiFi, switches and routers, and now cameras, at a lower hardware price. It has yet to appear in US school purchasing at all. The other threat is Cisco itself, which could drop the licence requirement, the one thing that gives a buyer a reason to switch.

The evidence under this - 4 claims
C13factmedium confidence
TP-Link's Omada platform copies the model and is generally available in the United States today, offering centralised management of access points, switches and routers from one interface in cloud, hardware or software controller form, and its range now extends to security cameras and video recorders.
against this
  • TP-Link, MikroTik and Verkada have zero line items in US E-Rate Form 471 data for funding years 2024 to 2026, against Ubiquiti's 32,141 - so in the one purchasing channel that publishes its transactions, the nearest imitators have not arrived.
  • TP-Link is the named subject of a US Department of Commerce proposal to bar its products on national-security grounds, reported in the press but carrying no Federal Register notice of a final determination as of 2026-09-16, which is a constraint on the attack rather than a defence Ubiquiti built.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C14factmedium confidence
In US E-Rate Form 471 data for funding years 2024 to 2026, TP-Link, MikroTik and Verkada record no line items at all, while Ubiquiti records 32,141 worth $158.6M and Cambium Networks records 837 worth $5.1M.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16
C04facthigh confidence
Cisco Meraki, the incumbent Ubiquiti displaces, states in its own documentation that each device requires a licence to function, that licences and hardware are sold separately, and that an out-of-compliance organisation is shut down after a 30-day grace period.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C06facthigh confidence
Licences are 0.6% of Ubiquiti's US E-Rate dollars against 36.6% of Cisco Meraki's, 21.9% of Extreme Networks', 17.4% of Cisco's own and 13.5% of Aruba's.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16

The rivals: CSCO, HPE, FTNT, CRNT, and 2 more that are private, in-house or listed abroad.

Who else does this, rival by rival
TickerRivalHow far alongPriced against it
PrivateTP-Link OmadaPriced against it: PrivateOn salePrivate
CSCOCisco MerakiPriced against it: YesOn saleYes
PrivateVerkadaPriced against it: PrivateOn salePrivate
HPEHewlett Packard Enterprise CompanyPriced against it: YesOn saleYes
FTNTFortinetPriced against it: One segment onlyOn saleOne segment only
CRNTCeragon NetworksPriced against it: One segment onlyOn saleOne segment only
03

How big it could get

How big this could get

US schools and libraries alone buy about $714M of WiFi points and $1.12B of switches a year, and Ubiquiti holds 6.2% of those WiFi units but 3.0% of the dollars. Beyond that channel lie 12.06 million US workplaces, but nobody publishes what they buy, so the full market is unsized.

The evidence under this - 3 claims
C17facthigh confidence
US schools and libraries requested 3,787,725 access points worth $2,138.5M and 1,155,588 switches worth $3,351.6M through E-Rate in funding years 2024 to 2026, at average unit prices of $565 and $2,900.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16
C19facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti holds 6.2% of the access-point units bought through US E-Rate over funding years 2024 to 2026 and 3.0% of the dollars - it wins roughly twice the share of units that it wins of money.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16
C18facthigh confidence
There were 12,057,370 establishments in the United States in 2024, of which 11,750,888 were private and 306,482 were government.
historical · calendar 2024written 2026-09-16
Where the growth is coming from, business by business

Where the growth is coming from

BusinessShare of revenueGrowth: last quarterLast half-yearLast yearShare in 3 years at its half-year rate
Enterprise Technology93%+27.7%+25.3%+31.9%97%
Service Provider Technology7%-12.7%-11.5%-5.5%3%
Whole company100%+23.5%+21.2%+27.2%100%

On the filed split through 2026-06-30, if each business keeps its last half-year's growth, the company grows about 23% next year and 24% in year 3, against 27.2% over the last twelve months. A scenario, not a forecast: no business holds its rate.

04

The results

The numbers

Is it growing?Fast

Sales grew 27% in the year to Jun 2026, slower than the 33% in the year before.

Jun 2022: $1.69BJun 2023: $1.94BJun 2024: $1.93BJun 2025: $2.57BJun 2026: $3.27B$1.69B$3.27B
Is it profitable?Strong

Operating margin is 36%, up from 28% in the year to Jun 2023.

Jun 2022: 27%Jun 2023: 28%Jun 2024: 26%Jun 2025: 32%Jun 2026: 36%27%36%
Does growth pay off?Flat

Running costs take 10¢ of each sales dollar, down from 12¢ in the year to Jun 2022.

Jun 2022: 12¢Jun 2023: 11¢Jun 2024: 12¢Jun 2025: 11¢Jun 2026: 10¢12¢10¢
Does it earn good returns?Strong

Each dollar put into the business earns 82% a year after tax, down from 88% in the year to Jun 2022.

Jun 2022: 88%Jun 2023: 67%Jun 2024: 47%Jun 2025: 86%Jun 2026: 82%88%82%
Is it making cash?Strong

It turned 28% of sales into free cash, $909M over the year.

Jun 2022: $357MJun 2023: −$166MJun 2024: $530MJun 2025: $627MJun 2026: $909M$357M$909M
Is the balance sheet safe?Net cash

It holds $611M of cash against $0 of debt, $611M more cash than it owes.

Jun 2022: −$650MJun 2023: −$963MJun 2024: −$580MJun 2025: −$99.8MJun 2026: $611M−$650M$611M
Are shares being diluted?Stable

The share count fell 1.9% in 4.0 years, and pay in shares costs 0.2% of sales.

Jun 2022: 61.7MJun 2023: 60.5MJun 2024: 60.5MJun 2025: 60.5MJun 2026: 60.6M61.7M60.6M
All the numbers

Filed figures from the company's 10-K and 10-Q, read 2026-10-04. Fiscal years end in June.

Jun 2022Jun 2023Jun 2024Jun 2025Jun 2026
Size and growth
Sales$1.69B$1.94B$1.93B$2.57B$3.27B
Sales growth−11%+15%−0.6%+33%+27%
Profit
Gross margin40%39%38%43%46%
Operating margin27%28%26%32%36%
Net margin22%21%18%28%29%
What growth costs, per sales dollar
Research and development8.1%7.5%8.3%6.6%6.2%
Selling, general and admin4.1%3.7%4.2%4.3%3.7%
Pay in shares0.2%0.2%0.3%0.3%0.2%
Capital spending0.8%1.1%0.6%0.5%0.6%
Cash
Cash from operations$370M−$145M$542M$640M$929M
Free cash flow$357M−$166M$530M$627M$909M
Balance sheet
Cash and short-term investments$137M$115M$126M$150M$611M
Debt$786M$1.08B$706M$250M$0
Net cash−$650M−$963M−$580M−$99.8M$611M
Returns and shares
Return on capital88%67%47%86%82%
Shares (diluted)61.7M60.5M60.5M60.5M60.6M

What growth costs

Ubiquiti spends very little to grow: about a dime of each sales dollar on engineers, selling and running the company, and almost nothing on buildings or shares for staff. That share creeps up when sales stall and falls when they jump, but the bigger swings in profit come from what the hardware costs to make and what it sells for.

The evidence under this - 2 claims
C62facthigh confidence
Per sales dollar, research and development ran between 6.1 and 8.3 cents from fiscal 2021 to 2026 and selling, general and administrative between 2.8 and 4.3; together they rose from 8.9 cents in fiscal 2021 to 12.5 in fiscal 2024, when sales were flat, and fell back to 10.0 in fiscal 2026. Stock pay never exceeded 0.33 cents and capital spending 1.08. Over the same years gross margin went from 48.1% to 38.4% and back to 46.2%, and operating margin from 39.1% to 25.9% and back to 36.2%.
against this

Over the five years operating costs grew faster than sales, 90% against 72%, so the recovery since fiscal 2024 has not brought the cost ratio back to fiscal 2021's.

historical · FY2021 to FY2026written 2026-10-04
C07facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti spent 3.72% of fiscal 2026 revenue on selling, general and administrative expense and 6.24% on research and development - total operating expenses of 9.95% of revenue.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16

The last report (21 Aug)

Quarter ended June 2026, filed figures.

23%
Sales growth
against the same quarter a year earlier
18.9%
Growth from the quarter before
against -3.3% the quarter before that
36¢
Operating profit
per dollar of sales

The fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, to June, was a record and beat analysts' earnings forecast by 17.4%. The year's sales reached $3.27B, up 27.2%, at a 36.2% operating margin.

Two things tempered it. Gross margin slipped to 45.8% from 47.0% the quarter before on higher component and shipping costs, which management says may keep rising. And about a quarter of the year's profit growth came from wider margins rather than more sales, which cannot repeat for ever.

What it did to the thesisIt confirmed this is a superb business taking share, with record sales and a beat. It also showed the risk the full price ignores: margins slipped on rising costs, and part of the profit growth came from wider margins that cannot widen for ever. The view stays Neutral.

The quarter in detail

Sales growth from the previous quarter, filed figures.

Earnings per share $4.73 against $4.03 expected.

The evidence under this - 4 claims
C41facthigh confidence
The record fourth quarter reported on 2026-08-21 beat on earnings by 17.4% and on revenue by 10.2%, gapped up 4.0%, and closed down 2.6% on the largest volume of the year.
historical · 2026-08-21written 2026-09-16
C22facthigh confidence
Fiscal 2026 revenue was $3,274.2M, up 27.2%, with gross margin of 46.2%, operating margin of 36.2% and net income of $960.3M.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
C56management claimmedium confidence
Fourth-quarter gross margin was 45.8%, down 1.2 points from the third quarter's 47.0% on higher component and shipping costs, and management says component costs may keep rising and may put near-term pressure on gross margin.
against this
  • Ubiquiti already answers component cost with a named Memory surcharge on its own storefront rather than absorbing it, so a warning about cost is not automatically a warning about margin.
  • The same company warned about component supply on the last call it held, in 2018, and gross margin has since gone from 38.4% in fiscal 2024 to 46.2% in fiscal 2026.
forwardwritten 2026-09-16
C23estimatehigh confidence
Operating profit grew 41.8% in fiscal 2026; holding gross margin at fiscal 2025's 43.42% it would have grown 31.0%, so roughly a quarter of the increase came from margin rather than volume.
derivedFiscal 2026 revenue of $3,274.2M at fiscal 2025's 43.42% gross margin gives gross profit of $1,421.7M against the reported $1,511.4M; deducting the same $325.9M of operating expenses leaves $1,095.8M against the reported $1,185.4M, which is 31.0% above fiscal 2025's $836.3M rather than 41.8%. All four inputs are from the fiscal 2026 income statement.
against this
  • Operating expenses fell from 10.93% of revenue to 9.95%, so holding gross margin constant and expenses at their actual dollar level flatters the counterfactual; on a constant expense ratio too the growth is nearer 30.9%, which does not change the reading.
  • Management attributes the gross margin gain to favourable product mix and lower other indirect costs, partly offset by higher tariff costs - mix is a durable driver if Enterprise keeps taking share and is not one if it is a single strong quarter of camera sales.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
What management did with the money

It has no debt and $611.2M of cash, pays a dividend of $1.00 a share each quarter, and barely issues new stock. It authorised a $500M buyback and bought nothing in a year while the shares halved. The founder, Robert Pera, owns 93%.

Insiders in 2026Q2: 0 purchases and 1 sales, from their Form 4 filings.

The evidence under this - 5 claims
C26facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti held $611.2M of cash and short-term investments at 2026-06-30 and no debt, against $149.7M and $249.6M of short-term debt a year earlier; fifteen months before that its total debt was $679.4M.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C53management claimhigh confidence
Ubiquiti paid $193.6M of dividends in fiscal 2026, $3.20 a share, declared $1.00 a share on 2026-08-21, and says it intends to pay at least $1.00 each quarter through fiscal 2027.
against this
  • The intention is explicitly conditioned: the release reserves the board's determination each quarter on cash flow, capital requirements and other factors, and one holder controls 93% of the votes that appoint that board.
  • The board authorised a $500M buyback in August 2025 and spent none of it through a year in which the shares halved, which is the nearest available evidence of how firmly this board's stated capital intentions bind it.
forwardwritten 2026-09-16
C51facthigh confidence
Share count barely moves: 60,522,091 shares outstanding at 2026-06-30 against 60,492,105 a year earlier, a rise of 0.05%, on share-based compensation of $7.4M - 0.23% of revenue and 0.78% of net income.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
C52facthigh confidence
The board authorised a $500M buyback on 2025-08-21, bought nothing in the year that followed, and on 2026-08-20 extended the authorisation to 2027-09-30 - while the shares halved.
against this
  • With 7.0% free float and six holders of record, buying back stock would shrink the float further and could threaten the exchange listing standards a company needs public shareholders to meet.
  • Ubiquiti spent the year repaying $250.0M of term debt and paying $193.6M of dividends, so the cash was allocated rather than idle.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
C45facthigh confidence
Robert Pera beneficially owned 56,278,181 shares, 93% of the company, and all four directors and the one other executive officer together 93.1%.
current state · 2025-10-17written 2026-09-16
05

The price, and where we disagree

In short. Full. A superb business at a price that already expects it to keep growing fast for years.

Share price
$562.75
close,
Price for each $1 of yearly profit
35.5
rivals' middle 30.3

The shares are far below their April high. They fell 39.4% in seven sessions after the only earnings miss in eight quarters, then fell again on a record quarter. This market prices Ubiquiti's quarters, not its business: it has twice doubted the margin, and the margin kept rising.

The next test is on 6 November: whether gross margin holds above 45% as component costs rise.

The evidence under this - 4 claims
C40facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti missed once in eight quarters, on 2026-05-08, by 9.6% on earnings and 3.2% on revenue, and the shares fell from $1,028.31 to $623.25 over the following seven sessions - 39.4% - reaching $520.06 on 2026-06-29, 52.7% below the 2026-04-21 high of $1,099.99.
against this
  • The quarter itself was not weak: revenue was up 18.7% on the year, gross margin of 47.0% was the highest of the four, and operating margin was 36.9% - the miss was against an estimate that had run up, not against the business.
  • The shares had risen 84% in the six months to 2026-04-21, so part of what fell was the run-up rather than the business.
historical · 2026-05-06 to 2026-06-29written 2026-09-16
C41facthigh confidence
The record fourth quarter reported on 2026-08-21 beat on earnings by 17.4% and on revenue by 10.2%, gapped up 4.0%, and closed down 2.6% on the largest volume of the year.
historical · 2026-08-21written 2026-09-16
C42facthigh confidence
This market has done the same thing before: the 2025-11-07 print beat earnings estimates by 18.1% and revenue by 4.5%, and the shares fell 19.4% in that session and 26.6% over five.
historical · 2025-11-07 to 2025-11-13written 2026-09-16
C56management claimmedium confidence
Fourth-quarter gross margin was 45.8%, down 1.2 points from the third quarter's 47.0% on higher component and shipping costs, and management says component costs may keep rising and may put near-term pressure on gross margin.
against this
  • Ubiquiti already answers component cost with a named Memory surcharge on its own storefront rather than absorbing it, so a warning about cost is not automatically a warning about margin.
  • The same company warned about component supply on the last call it held, in 2018, and gross margin has since gone from 38.4% in fiscal 2024 to 46.2% in fiscal 2026.
forwardwritten 2026-09-16
How we read the multiple

Buyers pay about $36 for each $1 of last year's profit, a little above Ubiquiti's usual level and its rivals'. Its profit on each dollar of sales is already a record.

Counting its cash, the company costs 28.4 times operating profit. For a buyer to earn 10% a year for five years:

  1. Operating profit must grow about 10% a year, from selling more, if buyers keep paying that price for it.
  2. About 16% a year if buyers later pay only 22 times.

Against its own history. A little above its own normal on almost every measure, even after a year in which the business grew far faster than the shares.

The evidence under this - 3 claims
C49facthigh confidence
At $562.75 the enterprise value of $33.62B is 28.4 times fiscal 2026 operating profit of $1,185.4M, and the shares are 35.5 times reported earnings against a six-year median of 32.8, 10.4 times sales against 9.4, and 23.6 times what it owns minus what it owes against 29.8.
current state · 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
C27facthigh confidence
Fiscal 2026 operating cash flow was $928.7M against capital spending of $19.7M - 0.60% of revenue - leaving $908.9M of free cash flow.
historical · FY2026written 2026-09-16
C50estimatemedium confidence
At 28.4 times operating profit, earning 10% a year over five years needs operating profit to compound at about 10% a year if buyers still pay the same multiple, about 16% a year if they pay 22 times, and about 21% a year if they pay 18 times.
derivedEnterprise value of $33.62B compounded at 10% for five years is $54.15B; divided by a 28.4, 22 or 18 times exit multiple that requires operating profit of $1.91B, $2.46B or $3.01B against fiscal 2026's $1.185B, which are compound annual rates of 10.0%, 15.7% and 20.5%. Enterprise value is from the pack; operating profit is the filed figure. The required return and the three exit multiples are chosen, not derived, and are the inputs the conclusion turns on.
against this
  • Operating profit grew 41.8% in fiscal 2026 and 67.6% in fiscal 2025, so 10% a year is far below what the business has just delivered and the bar looks easy on that record.
  • It looks easy because the base is the best margin in the company's history: operating margin went from 25.9% in fiscal 2024 to 36.2% in fiscal 2026 and operating expenses are already down to 9.95% of revenue, so almost all of the next five years has to come from volume.
  • Cisco and HPE, the only two listed rivals whose filings describe the same product, trade at less than half Ubiquiti's multiple of sales - so the exit multiple assumption is the whole argument and it is an assumption.
forwardwritten 2026-09-16
Priced against its rivals

The competitors its own annual report names, each confirmed against the rival's filing. Measured on price for each $1 of yearly profit, cheapest first:

TickerCompanyprice for each $1 of yearly profit
HPEHewlett Packard Enterprise Company27.8×
CSCOCisco Systems32.8×
UIUbiquiti35.5×

The middle of the other 2 is 30.3. Ubiquiti Inc. is dearest of 3.

Rivals' figures come from a data provider, so read the spread of the group rather than any single pair.

Dearest of its filed rivals, on the highest operating margin of the group, so the position is this company's own.

Also checked and set aside: Belden (a substitute, not the same product).

Private or foreign rivals that cannot be priced: MikroTik (SIA Mikrotikls), TP-Link Technologies Co., Ltd., Tarana Wireless, Inc., Trango (Trango Systems / Trango Networks), Verkada Inc., Axis Communications AB, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (HIKVISION), Hanwha Vision Co., Ltd., Cambium Networks Corporation, Aruba Networks and Juniper Networks, Ruckus.

Where we disagree with the market

The market believes

A hardware company with one controlling owner, no guidance and no earnings call, whose margins are a peak that a single miss proved fragile.

We believe

The low selling cost is built in and is taking share in a market that is not growing, but the price already pays for it.

The market has rejected the same margin objection twice while the margin kept rising. We measured the cost gap from US school purchase records and five rivals' own accounts, rather than inferring it.

We would be wrong if selling costs climb as a share of sales while gross margin falls, or if the school share keeps slipping, as it did this year.

What analysts say, and the evidence
Analysts positive
50%
of 2, 1 Sep
Four months earlier
50%
of 2, 1 May
The evidence under this - 5 claims
C42facthigh confidence
This market has done the same thing before: the 2025-11-07 print beat earnings estimates by 18.1% and revenue by 4.5%, and the shares fell 19.4% in that session and 26.6% over five.
historical · 2025-11-07 to 2025-11-13written 2026-09-16
C40facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti missed once in eight quarters, on 2026-05-08, by 9.6% on earnings and 3.2% on revenue, and the shares fell from $1,028.31 to $623.25 over the following seven sessions - 39.4% - reaching $520.06 on 2026-06-29, 52.7% below the 2026-04-21 high of $1,099.99.
against this
  • The quarter itself was not weak: revenue was up 18.7% on the year, gross margin of 47.0% was the highest of the four, and operating margin was 36.9% - the miss was against an estimate that had run up, not against the business.
  • The shares had risen 84% in the six months to 2026-04-21, so part of what fell was the run-up rather than the business.
historical · 2026-05-06 to 2026-06-29written 2026-09-16
C05facthigh confidence
In US school purchasing, a Ubiquiti access point costs $275 per unit against Cisco Meraki's $645, Cisco's $723, Aruba's $485 and Extreme Networks' $443; on switches it is $1,191 against Meraki's $3,178.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2024 to 2026written 2026-09-16
C08facthigh confidence
Of the five other US-listed networking vendors whose own filings state the line, none spends less than 16.6% of revenue on selling and administration: Cisco 22.6%, Fortinet 38.0%, Extreme Networks 38.1%, HPE 16.6%, NETGEAR 29.5% - against Ubiquiti's 3.7%.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C10factmedium confidence
Ubiquiti's share of US school access-point purchases almost doubled while the channel itself stood still: its units went from 44,748 in funding year 2023 to 85,263 in 2026, a share of 3.53% rising to 6.85%, against all-vendor totals of 1,267,218 and 1,244,669.
against this
  • Its share fell for the first time in funding year 2026, from 7.01% to 6.85%, and its units from 91,430 to 85,263.
  • Funding year 2026 carries 319,430 line items against 347,380 for 2025 across the whole dataset, so the newest year may be incomplete and the fall may be an artefact of the filing window rather than of demand.
historical · E-Rate funding years 2023 to 2026written 2026-09-16
06

What could go wrong, and how we would know

The risks

  • Surcharges nobody filed. 78% of its web-store products carry memory or tariff surcharges its annual report never mentions, and a class action seeks the tariff charge back.
  • Undisclosed disputes. Its legal note names no litigation, yet its dockets show a class action, a suit by Ukrainian plaintiffs and eight patent suits since 2022.
  • Customs could send a bill. US Customs is challenging how it values and classifies imports, and says back duties with penalties could follow.
  • Suppliers can pull the plug. The licences that let it rewrite its chips' software renew each year and can be ended without cause.
  • One owner, little float. The founder owns 93%, only 7% of shares trade, and the company gives no guidance and holds no calls.
The evidence under this - 9 claims
C30factmedium confidence
On Ubiquiti's own US storefront, 78% of 136 listed products carry a price uplift over their base price through named surcharges - a Memory surcharge on 69% and a Tariff surcharge on 21% - of 6.1% to 15.1%, median 7.8%.
against this
  • The sample is the four category pages the storefront server-renders - cameras and recorders, cloud gateways, switching and WiFi - and not the whole catalogue, so the proportions describe those four categories rather than all revenue.
  • A surcharge the buyer pays is pricing power only while the buyer keeps paying it, and nothing in the data says what happened to unit volumes after it was added around October 2025.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C31facthigh confidence
The word "surcharge" appears nowhere in Ubiquiti's fiscal 2026 annual report, although it is charging two of them on its own storefront and 45% of revenue goes through that storefront.
current state · 2026-08-21written 2026-09-16
C33factmedium confidence
Ubiquiti sued the United States in the Court of International Trade on 2026-06-05, and a class action filed in Delaware the day before seeks recovery of the tariff surcharge it charged its own customers.
against this
  • The docket gives the Delaware case's caption, date and class-action character but not its subject matter; that the claim is about the tariff surcharge comes from plaintiff-firm descriptions, which are a tertiary and interested source.
  • Neither case has been decided, and the two run in opposite directions - a refund from the government is an asset and restitution to customers a liability - so the net exposure could be either sign or close to nothing.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C35factmedium confidence
Ubiquiti's fiscal 2026 Legal Matters note names no litigation and discloses no accrual, while its own dockets carry a Delaware class action, a Southern District of New York action by seven Ukrainian plaintiffs, its own Court of International Trade case and eight patent suits since 2022.
against this
  • Disclosure turns on materiality, and for a company with $611.2M of cash and $908.9M of annual free cash flow a set of unquantified civil claims may reasonably be judged immaterial.
  • Two of the three non-patent cases were filed within eleven weeks of the 10-K and one - the Ukrainian action, filed 2026-08-11 - only ten days before it, so a company could not have completed an assessment.
current state · 2026-08-21written 2026-09-16
C34facthigh confidence
US Customs and Border Protection is currently challenging the valuation, rules of origin and classification methods Ubiquiti applies to certain products it imports, and says retroactive duties with interest and penalties could follow.
current state · 2026-08-21written 2026-09-16
C55facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti's contract manufacturers are primarily in Vietnam and China, it expects three to six months to move them, it depends on a single or limited number of suppliers for several components including chipsets, and the licences that let it replace firmware on those chipsets renew annually and are terminable without cause.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C45facthigh confidence
Robert Pera beneficially owned 56,278,181 shares, 93% of the company, and all four directors and the one other executive officer together 93.1%.
current state · 2025-10-17written 2026-09-16
C44facthigh confidence
Free float is 4,209,916 shares against 60,528,381 outstanding - 7.0% - and there are six holders of record.
current state · 2026-08-20written 2026-09-16
C47facthigh confidence
Ubiquiti has held no earnings call since 2018-08-24 and issued no revenue or earnings guidance with its fiscal 2026 results; the dated rating series rests on two analysts and the forward estimates on one.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
What we still do not know
  • How much revenue the surcharges carry, and how much might be owed back. No filing puts a number on either.
  • Whether the allegation that its radios reach Russian forces becomes a legal cost. The shares have priced it at nothing so far.
The evidence under this - 5 claims
C30factmedium confidence
On Ubiquiti's own US storefront, 78% of 136 listed products carry a price uplift over their base price through named surcharges - a Memory surcharge on 69% and a Tariff surcharge on 21% - of 6.1% to 15.1%, median 7.8%.
against this
  • The sample is the four category pages the storefront server-renders - cameras and recorders, cloud gateways, switching and WiFi - and not the whole catalogue, so the proportions describe those four categories rather than all revenue.
  • A surcharge the buyer pays is pricing power only while the buyer keeps paying it, and nothing in the data says what happened to unit volumes after it was added around October 2025.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C31facthigh confidence
The word "surcharge" appears nowhere in Ubiquiti's fiscal 2026 annual report, although it is charging two of them on its own storefront and 45% of revenue goes through that storefront.
current state · 2026-08-21written 2026-09-16
C33factmedium confidence
Ubiquiti sued the United States in the Court of International Trade on 2026-06-05, and a class action filed in Delaware the day before seeks recovery of the tariff surcharge it charged its own customers.
against this
  • The docket gives the Delaware case's caption, date and class-action character but not its subject matter; that the claim is about the tariff surcharge comes from plaintiff-firm descriptions, which are a tertiary and interested source.
  • Neither case has been decided, and the two run in opposite directions - a refund from the government is an asset and restitution to customers a liability - so the net exposure could be either sign or close to nothing.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C36factlow confidence
Hunterbrook Media published on 2026-01-27 that a Ukrainian communications officer estimated 80% of Russian battlefield radio bridges observed were Ubiquiti's, alleging diversion through distributors and third countries rather than direct sales, and disclosed that its own fund was short the stock.
against this
  • The 80% figure is one officer's observation, not a measurement, and the publisher held a short position in the stock at publication - an interested source reporting an unmeasured quantity.
  • Ukraine's own state register of foreign parts found in Russian weapons, 6,107 components as of 2026-09-10, carries no Ubiquiti entry in its manufacturer index - though it catalogues components inside weapons rather than commercial equipment used alongside them, so it is the wrong instrument rather than a contrary finding.
current state · 2026-01-27written 2026-09-16
C43inferencemedium confidence
The shares closed 0.4% lower on the day Hunterbrook published its short report and then rose 101% to the 2026-04-21 high - this market has priced the Russia allegations at nothing so far.
derivedCloses of $548.99 on 2026-01-26 and $546.68 on 2026-01-27 from the price series, against an intraday high of $1,099.99 on 2026-04-21; the inference is that no persistent repricing followed, which is a statement about what the market did and not about whether the allegation is true.
against this
  • A market that has not priced something is not a market that has judged it groundless; the Southern District of New York action post-dates the report by seven months and the price reaction to that filing is inside the general decline.
  • With 4.2 million shares of free float, an absent price reaction is weak evidence about what anybody concluded.
historical · 2026-01-27 to 2026-04-21written 2026-09-16

What would change our view

  1. Neutral→AttractiveVolume growth carries it, at a lower multiple

    It needs all of:

    • ○Operating margin stays above 30% and selling and administration below 6% of sales, so growth is not being bought.checked at the next results, due by 6 Nov
    • ○The company's value falls to about 20 times operating profit, from 28.4, so volume growth alone pays an owner properly.about ≈$401.67 today, 29% below the last close
  2. Neutral→UnattractiveIt has to start paying for demand

    It needs any of:

    • ○Selling and administration pass 6% of sales, or operating margin falls below 30% for two quarters running.checked at the next results, due by 6 Nov
    • ○A chip supplier ends the licence that lets it rewrite chip software, or a regulator imposes a charge above a year's free cash.watched as it happens
We would also be wrong if
  • Its share of US school WiFi purchases falls for a second year running.

What is coming

  • 6 November 2026 Q1 fiscal 2027 results: Gross margin against 45% with component costs rising, whether the storefront surcharges are still itemised, and operating costs against 11% of sales.
Every dated event ahead
  • 6 November 2026 Q1 fiscal 2027 results: Gross margin against 45% with component costs rising, whether the storefront surcharges are still itemised, and operating costs against 11% of sales.
  • December 2026 2026 proxy statement and annual meeting: Whether a fourth director and third audit committee member have been named, how the say-on-pay vote goes, and Pera's stake re-dated.
  • February 2027 Q2 fiscal 2027 results: Whether the $500M buyback authorisation is finally used and the quarterly dividend of at least $1.00 holds as promised.
Since we wrote this
Written
16 Sep
Price the thesis read
$562.75
15 Sep
  • 5 OctThesis reviewThe long case now sits under the verdictAfter the five-name pilot, the owner asked for the long case on every thesis.
  • 4 OctThesis reviewOwner's checklist: revenue streams, cost of growth, management, catalystsThe owner's checklist found the method silent on who runs the company, what growth costs, where the money comes from and what is dated ahead; this pass fills those four blocks from the proxy and filings.
  • 16 SepThesis writtenNeutral, medium convictionThe cost advantage is real and measured from school purchase records, but the price already pays for it, and surcharges missing from the annual report cloud the revenue.

Also checked 1 time with nothing new to act on.

Sources 25

Where this came from

Sources - 25

Every claim above cites one of these, or states the reasoning that derived it. The quote is frozen at the date it was read: a link can rot, and an agent fetch returns a reading of a page rather than the page. Backs counts the whole claim ledger, so it can name a claim this page does not surface.

  1. S01primarycompany filing2026-08-21
    Item 1 business and competitor list, the risk factors, the full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, the product and geographic revenue split, distributor-versus-webstore mix, the customer and receivable concentration tables, the tariff and Customs disclosures, the buyback and dividend notes, the properties table, six holders of record, and the Legal Matters note
    backsC01C02C03C07C08C09C11C12C15C16C20C22C24C26C27C28C29C31C32C34C35C37C38C39C40C42C44C49C51C52C53C55C57C58C60C61C62
  2. S02primarycompany filing2026-08-21
    the quarterly product and geographic tables, GAAP against non-GAAP earnings per share, the component-cost warning, the dividend intention for fiscal 2027, and the absence of any revenue or earnings guidance
    backsC24C41C42C47C53C56
  3. S03primarycompany filing2025-10-24
    Robert Pera's beneficial ownership, the four-person board, and the related-party sales to the Memphis Grizzlies
    backsC45C58C59
  4. S04primaryvendor data2026-09-16
    Ubiquiti research pack, frozen beside this thesis
    content/UI/research-pack.json
    price and the return series, the price-move decomposition, the analyst rating history and estimate panel, price-target drift, the derived multiples against their six-year medians, FINRA short interest, the insider roster, and the filed competitor cohort
    backsC11C26C38C39C40C41C42C44C46C47C48C49C52C54
  5. S05primarycompany filing2026-09-02
    Cisco's own selling and administrative expense ratio, its gross and operating margins, revenue by product category, and the statement that its Networking growth came from AI infrastructure
    backsC08C09C21
  6. S06primarycompany filing2026-02-25
    Fortinet's own expense ratios and margins, and its self-description as a network-security company selling through distributors to resellers and managed security service providers
    backsC08C09
  7. S07primarycompany filing2025-12-18
    HPE's own expense ratios and group operating margin, and the Networking and Campus & Branch segment revenue that sizes the part of HPE which actually competes
    backsC08
  8. S08primarycompany filing2026-06-30
    Extreme's own selling and administrative expense ratio, gross margin and operating margin
    backsC08C09
  9. S09primarycompany filing2025-12-31
    NETGEAR's own expense ratio and margins - the one comparator in the set that sells at Ubiquiti's price point and loses money doing it
    backsC08
  10. S10primaryother2026-09-16
    the incumbent's own statement that each device requires a licence to function, that licences and hardware are sold separately, and that an out-of-compliance estate is shut down after thirty days
    the organization will enter a 30-day grace period, during which the organization must be brought back into compliance, otherwise it will be shut down until proper licensing is applied to the organization
    backsC04
  11. S11primarygovernment data2026-09-16
    what US schools actually pay, by manufacturer, per unit - access points, switches and licences - from the applicants' own filed funding requests, and the unit volumes behind them. The quote is one line item verbatim; every aggregate in the ledger is computed over this dataset with SoQL, grouping on form_471_manufacturer_name and form_471_function_name and summing one_time_quantity and pre_discount_extended_eligible_line_item_costs for funding_year >= 2024, so any figure can be re-run against the same endpoint.
    form_471_manufacturer_name":"Meraki","model_of_equipment":"MS390 48-port Enterprise License and Support, 5 Year","one_time_eligible_costs":"2243.66"
    backsC05C06C10C14C17C19
  12. S12primaryregulator2026-03-23
    the date and scope of the Covered List addition, and the NIST definition that limits it to consumer-grade devices primarily intended for residential use
    On March 23, 2026, the FCC added to the Covered List Routers produced in a foreign country, except routers which have been granted a Conditional Approval by DoW or DHS
    backsC15
  13. S13primarygovernment data2026-09-16
    the count of US establishments - 12,057,370 in total and 11,750,888 private, read from data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2024/a/area/US000.csv - and the bureau's own definition of the field, which is the annual average of quarterly establishment counts
    annual_avg_estabs Numeric 8 Annual average of quarterly establishment counts for a given year
    backsC18
  14. S14primaryother2026-09-16
    the live US price list, showing a named Memory surcharge and a named Tariff surcharge added on top of the base price of most listed products
    "minDisplayPrice":{"amount":19900,"currency":"USD"},"minDisplayPriceWithSurcharges":{"amount":22800,"currency":"USD"},"productSurchargeTypes":["Memory","Tariff"]
    backsC30C31
  15. S15primaryother2026-09-16
    the Delaware class action, the Southern District of New York action brought by Ukrainian plaintiffs, Ubiquiti's own Court of International Trade case against the United States, and eight patent infringement suits since 2022
    JAMES HIGGINS, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. UBIQUITI INC., CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT JURY TRIAL DEMAND
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  16. S16secondaryanalyst2026-01-27
    the 80% radio-bridge estimate and its single-officer provenance, the finding that diversion ran through distributors and third countries rather than direct sales, and the publisher's own disclosure that its fund was short the stock
    Based on Hunterbrook Media's reporting, Hunterbrook Capital is short $UI and long a basket of comparable securities at the time of publication.
    backsC36
  17. S17tertiarynews2026-08-12
    that the Southern District of New York action is brought by seven Ukrainian plaintiffs and what it pleads - the docket gives the caption and date, this gives the substance
    Ubiquiti allowed its encrypted radio products to aid the Russian military's "human safari" drone operations against civilians
    backsC35
  18. S18primaryother2026-09-16
    that the nearest imitation of the UniFi model is generally available in the US today, in cloud, hardware and software controller forms, and that its range now includes security cameras and video recorders
    Omada's Software-Defined Networking (SDN) platform integrates network devices, including access points, switches, and routers. It provides 100% centralized cloud management and a highly scalable network controlled from a single interface.
    backsC13
  19. S19primarygovernment data2026-09-10
    that the one state register of foreign parts found inside Russian weapons carries no Ubiquiti entry in its manufacturer index - and that it catalogues components inside weapons rather than commercial equipment used alongside them, so it is the wrong instrument for this question
    The world`s only open database portal of foreign-produced weapon components Total number: 6 107 Components 207 Weapon Units Updated: 10.09.2026
    read, but no claim rests on it
  20. S20primarytranscript2018-08-24
    Robert Pera's own account of the channel's inability to hold stock and of chronic stock-outs; three analyst questions, from BMO and JMP, and nothing since
    backsC47
  21. S21secondaryvendor data2026-09-16
    that Ubiquiti is covered with 27 transcripts and that the newest is fiscal 2018 Q4 - so the absence of a recent call is the company's choice and not a coverage gap
    backsC47
  22. S22primaryregulator2026-09-11
    the September 2026 component-part rule and the August 2026 proposals on hardware and software bills of materials - the compliance load the whole category now carries - and the absence of any Federal Register notice of a final Commerce determination on TP-Link
    The Commission closes a component-part loophole by prohibiting authorization of devices that incorporate logic-bearing hardware components produced by an entity identified on the Commission's Covered List
    read, but no claim rests on it
  23. S23tertiarynews2026-09-10
    that a plaintiff firm is soliciting shareholders over the Russia allegations - a solicitation rather than a proceeding, and the only reason this appeared in the news filter at all
    read, but no claim rests on it
  24. S24primarycompany filing2023-08-25
    the fiscal 2021 to 2023 income statements and cash flows: research and development, sales, general and administrative, the $618.1M fiscal 2022 buyback and the dividends paid
    backsC61C62
  25. S25primarycompany filing2025-12-05
    director Ronald Sege's death on 2025-11-30, the vacant Class II seat, the two-member audit committee and the NYSE notice of non-compliance of 2025-12-04, and the 2025 annual meeting vote
    backsC60
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