FN | Market Cap: $17.0B (07/13/26)
Industry:
Hardware

DESCRIPTION

Fabrinet is a contract manufacturer specializing in precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing. Rather than designing its own products, Fabrinet manufactures complex products to OEM customers' specifications. Its core product is optical transceivers and related components — devices that convert electrical signals to optical signals and transmit data at high speeds across fiber optic networks inside and between data centers. Fabrinet's primary customers are OEMs in the optical communications industry, with NVIDIA and Cisco together representing roughly 46% of FY25 revenue. Fabrinet is the sole contract manufacturer for NVIDIA's own-design transceivers. Fabrinet organizes revenue into two segments: optical communications (~77% of FY25 revenue), which includes datacom transceivers for AI workloads and telecom components like ROADMs and coherent ZR pluggable modules for data center interconnect; and non-optical communications (~23%), which covers automotive sensors, industrial lasers, and a newer high-performance compute program with AWS. Fabrinet earns a manufacturing service fee per unit produced, with no meaningful order backlog — orders arrive on short lead times via purchase orders. The business is based primarily in Thailand, providing a low-cost manufacturing platform, and is vertically integrated into optics and glass fabrication. Gross margins run in the mid-12% range, with operating margins around 10-11%. Key near-term growth drivers include the ramp of 1.6T transceivers for NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra platform, growing data center interconnect demand, a major Ciena telecom systems win, and a new direct hyperscaler relationship with AWS.

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