ZBRA
ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPEvidence as of 2026-09-03Overview · ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Zebra Technologies Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise asset intelligence solutions in the automatic identification and data capture solutions industry worldwide. It operates in two segments, Asset Intelligence & Tracking and Enterprise Visibility & Mobility. The company designs, manufactures, and sells printers, which produce labels, wristbands, tickets, receipts, and plastic cards; dye-…
Management team
- Mr. Joseph Ramsey White · Chief Product & Solutions OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Jeffrey F. Schmitz · Chief People OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Cristen L. Kogl · Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Corporate SecretaryFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Nathan Andrew Winters · Chief Financial OfficerFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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+0.8 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 desk’s surviving evidence produces a constructive balance (+0.8 of a possible +2; confidence high). Revenue in the three‑month sequence rose from $ 1,293,000,000 in the quarter 2025-03-30 to 2025-06-28 (3mo) to $ 1,557,000,000 in the quarter 2026-04-05 to 2026-07-04 (3mo). Gross profit climbed from $ 616,000,000 to $ 825,000,000 across the same sequence, and gross margin expanded from about 47.7% to about 53.0% over the reported quarters.
Operating income increased from $ 183,000,000 in the quarter 2025-03-30 to 2025-06-28 (3mo) to $ 321,000,000 in the quarter 2026-04-05 to 2026-07-04 (3mo), while net income rose from $ 112,000,000 to $ 233,000,000. Weighted‑average diluted shares outstanding fell from 51,282,273 to 48,129,265 across the same pair of quarterly comparisons, and point‑in‑time common shares outstanding moved from 49,191,704 as of 2026-02-05 to 47,310,660 as of 2026-07-28. Valuation signals in the packet show trailing‑12‑month FCF of $ 340,000,000, a price to trailing‑12‑month FCF of 49.7, EV/EBITDA of 17.71, and a trailing P/E of 29.93; the model-implied FCF growth rate consistent with today’s price is 32.82%.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
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 $1,293,000,000 in the quarter 2025-03-30 to 2025-06-28 (3mo) to $1,557,000,000 in the quarter 2026-04-05 to 2026-07-04 (3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001628280-26-052550Gross profit increased from $616,000,000 in the quarter 2025-03-30 to 2025-06-28 (3mo) to $825,000,000 in the quarter 2026-04-05 to 2026-07-04 (3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001628280-26-052550Reads 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.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
Reads 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.
No computed signal history for this symbol yet — signals need roughly 70 trading days of price history.
Reads 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, ZBRA appears in the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) with a fund weight of 0.02%.
ETF constituents · market dataThe provided ownership evidence contains a single ETF membership record for ZBRA (IVV at 0.02%); no other ETF weights or institutional holdings are present in the supplied data.
ETF constituents · market dataReads 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.
In early September 2026, University Health disclosed rolling out Zebra Technologies’ TC5, HC2X/HC5X mobile computers and ZQ600 Plus mobile printers to more than 90% of its frontline inpatient staff to streamline bedside workflows and reduce communication bottlenecks.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-03A press release dated September 02, 2026 announced University Health’s deployment of Zebra mobile computers and printers to eliminate callbacks and modernize workflows.
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.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads 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 market-implied free cash flow (FCF) growth rate that today's price would justify, under the model's stated discount and terminal assumptions, is 32.82%.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice to trailing‑12‑month FCF is 49.7, implying the market is paying about fifty times last‑twelve‑month FCF.
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 company-specific operating signals in the supplied evidence jointly support a favorable read. Revenue, gross profit and operating income each show multi-quarter improvement (fundamentals-0, fundamentals-1, fundamentals-3) while gross margin expanded consistently quarter-to-quarter from ~47.7% to ~53.0% (fundamentals-2), indicating improving unit economics rather than a one-off revenue blip. Net income rose alongside a declining share base (fundamentals-4, fundamentals-5), so earnings per-share dynamics appear strengthened by both profit growth and share count reduction. Recent customer deployments, product design awards, and investor conference activity (news-0, news-4, news-2) provide corroborating commercial and brand signals that align with the operating improvements. Valuation multiples that are neutral-to-positive in level relative to growth (EV/EBITDA 17.7, P/E ~29.9; valuation-2, valuation-3) temper the raw high-FCF multiple concerns and suggest some of the negative valuation indicators rely on a narrow FCF snapshot rather than the broader profitability trend.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.35
20 surviving claims rest on 10 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 35% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
Twenty surviving claims draw on ten distinct sources, so the read has some breadth, but a single analyst supplies over a third of the claims and every point the desk raised survived debate — both signs that the dataset is concentrated and that internal challenge was limited. In practice this means the findings are informative but somewhat fragile: they warrant attention while remaining sensitive to new filings, large market moves, or additional independent sources before being treated as robust.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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What this was built from
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10 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer+1.5 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 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
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
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