KEYS
Keysight Technologies, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-03Overview · Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Keysight Technologies, Inc. provides electronic design and test solutions to commercial communications, networking, aerospace, defense and government, automotive, energy, semiconductor, electronic, and education industries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its Communications Solutions Group segment provides electronic design automation (EDA) software; radio frequency and microwave test solutions, and rel…
Management team
- Mr. Jason A. Kary · Senior VP & President of the Electronic Industrial Solutions GroupFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Sung J. Yoon · Senior Vice President of Global SalesFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Mark A. Wallace · Chief Customer Officer & Senior VPFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Soon Chai Gooi · Senior VP and President of Order Fulfillment & Digital OperationsFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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+0.4 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed (+ 0.4 of a possible + 2; confidence high). Revenue increased sequentially from $ 1,306,000,000 in Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-05-29) to $ 1,352,000,000 in Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-08-25), to $ 1,600,000,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-11-01 to 2026-01-31) and to $ 1,717,000,000 in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-29). Operating income rose from $ 207,000,000 in Q2 2025 to $ 234,000,000 in Q3 2025, to $ 248,000,000 in Q1 2026 and jumped to $ 407,000,000 in Q2 2026, driving calculated operating margin up to about 23.7% in Q2 2026 from roughly 15.8% in Q2 2025.
Reported net income and diluted EPS followed the improvement, with net income moving from $ 257,000,000 (EPS $ 1.49) in Q2 2025 to $ 349,000,000 (EPS $ 2.02) in Q2 2026. Cash and cash equivalents rose to $ 2,412,000,000 as of 2026-04-30 while long-term debt stayed near $ 2,531,000,000, leaving a roughly neutral net cash/debt position on the balance-sheet items provided.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
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Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue rose from $1,306,000,000 in the quarter Q2 2025, (2025-02-01 to 2025-04-30, 3mo) to $1,352,000,000 in fiscal Q3 2025, (2025-05-01 to 2025-07-31, 3mo), to $1,600,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026, (2025-11-01 to 2026-01-31, 3mo), and to $1,717,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026, (2026-02-01 to 2026-04-30, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001601046-26-000024Operating income moved from $207,000,000 in the quarter Q2 2025, (2025-02-01 to 2025-04-30, 3mo) to $234,000,000 in fiscal Q3 2025, (2025-05-01 to 2025-07-31, 3mo), to $248,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026, (2025-11-01 to 2026-01-31, 3mo), and jumped to $407,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026, (2026-02-01 to 2026-04-30, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001601046-26-000024Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
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The Board approved an increase in size from ten to eleven members and appointed Scott Reese as a director, effective August 26, 2026 (8-K filed August 26, 2026).
8-K filed 2026-08-26Mr. Reese will serve as a Class I director with a term expiring at the 2027 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders, and will serve on the Audit and Finance and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees (8-K filed August 26, 2026).
8-K filed 2026-08-26Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Keysight shows very strong 12-1 momentum at +115.0%, ranking in the 94th percentile of the 547-stock research universe as of 2026-09-02.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02weakened in debateTwelve-month relative strength versus SPY is +75.8%, indicating the stock has materially outperformed SPY over the past 12 months as of 2026-09-02.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02, the ETF iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) holds KEYS at 0.09% of the fund.
ETF constituents · market dataThree Form 4 insider filings for KEYS were filed on 2026-08-24, 2026-08-25, and 2026-08-28 (accession numbers the 4 filed 24 August 2026, the 4 filed 25 August 2026, and the 4 filed 28 August 2026); two filings show parse_status 'skipped' and one shows 'pending'.
Form 4 × 3 (90d window not enforced here)Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Keysight announced it will demonstrate expanded Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capabilities at ION GNSS+ 2026.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-02Multiple outlets frame Keysight in the context of AI-driven demand for semiconductor/test equipment, noting rising estimates or renewed investor attention tied to AI themes.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-02Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
NYE JEAN MCCLUNG (Director) sold 3,000 shares for $958k on 2026-08-21, per the Form 4 filing.
Form 4 · NYE JEAN MCCLUNG (Director) · $958k sold · 2026-08-21Estrada Ingrid A (SVP) sold 2,000 shares for $629k on 2026-08-20, and the filing states the sale was made pursuant to a 10b5-1 plan.
Form 4 · Estrada Ingrid A (SVP) · $629k sold · 2026-08-20Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The model finds the current price implies a free cash flow (FCF) growth rate of 27.81% per year under the stated discount and terminal assumptions.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice-to-FFO/FCF (price to FCF) on trailing twelve months FCF is 41.52.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several recent claims point to a company-level operational improvement that supports a favorable reading: revenue and operating income have increased quarter-to-quarter, operating margin expanded notably in the most recent quarter, net income and diluted EPS rose to their highest reported levels in the sample, and cash balances grew while long-term debt remained steady. Market signals show strong 12-month momentum and outperformance versus SPY, price sitting above the 200-day moving average, and institutional buying noted in filings and news — factors that often coincide with renewed investor interest. Valuation multiples are elevated, but the firm’s sizable trailing free cash flow and declining share count provide context that can justify higher multiples in some cases; similarly, short-term volatility and two insider sales are present but do not negate the underlying earnings and cash-flow improvements. Taken together, the company-level fundamentals, cash generation, and recent market/ownership activity jointly support a constructive reading of the evidence, while the highest-risk counterarguments (rich multiples, volatility, isolated insider sales) rely on single metrics rather than the broader multi-quarter operational trend.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.37
37 surviving claims rest on 15 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 22% of them, and 97% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving set is moderately concentrated: 37 claims draw on 15 sources and a single analyst accounts for about one-fifth of the assertions, so individual analyst bias could meaningfully sway interpretations. High survival through debate (97%) raises the chance the desk's reading is stable, but source concentration and reliance on a few key documents mean the read should be treated as informational rather than definitive.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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What this was built from
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11 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+1.0 to the score
7 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+1.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.1 to the score
2 holdings records
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
3 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.7 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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