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Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) Q2 2026: A $2.8B Bet on NVIDIA’s 800V AI Power — Real Story or Priced for Perfection?
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Navitas Semiconductor Corp. (NVTS) Q2 2026 — Navitas Semiconductor (NASDAQ: NVTS) — a designer of gallium-nitride (GaN) and silicon-carbide (SiC) power chips — reported Q2 2026 (quarter ended June 30, 2026) after the close on July 27. Revenue was $10.5M, up ~22% sequentially but DOWN ~27% year-over-year (from $14.5M) as the company deliberately walks away from low-margin mobile/consumer chargers under its 'Navitas 2.0' pivot toward AI data centers, grid and energy. The scary GAAP net loss of $228.2M is largely an illusion: $203.1M of it is a NON-CASH earnout-liability remeasurement that actually grew because the stock rose. The real, non-GAAP net loss was just $9.3M (narrowing from $9.8M), and non-GAAP EPS was -$0.04 (a beat vs -$0.05 on ~240.6M shares). The genuine bright spots: non-GAAP gross margin expanded to 39.5% (from 38.5% a year ago), high-power markets grew >50% YoY, and Q3 guidance of $13.5M +/- $0.5M implies ~28% sequential growth and a return to YoY growth. The balance sheet is a fortress — cash more than doubled to $557.4M (from $236.9M at year-end) via stock sales into the NVIDIA-driven spike, giving a 10+ year runway at the ~$40M/yr burn, so solvency is NOT the risk. The problem is valuation: at ~$11.41 (mkt cap ~$2.78B, down ~67% from a $34.17 high), the stock trades near 53x sales on shrinking revenue, funded by ~21% YoY dilution, with the AI-data-center revenue that justifies the multiple still a 2027+ story. The whole thesis rests on an NVIDIA 800V HVDC data-center-power partnership. Our reverse-DCF (net-cash-adjusted; the negative-FCF Path-to-Profitability + Reverse-DCF framework) lands a base-case fair value near $6.50 (bear ~$3.50 / bull ~$9.50) — the current price sits ABOVE even our bull case, implying ~40-50% revenue CAGR for 6-7 years. Our…