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Vicor Corporation  (NASDAQ: VICR)
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Price: $49.3300 $-2.83 -5.426%
Day's High: $51.89 Week Perf: -2.99 %
Day's Low: $ 49.32 30 Day Perf: 2.81 %
Volume (M): 132 52 Wk High: $ 62.00
Volume (M$): $ 6,497 52 Wk Avg: $41.28
Open: $51.11 52 Wk Low: $30.90



 Market Capitalization (Millions $) 2,228
 Shares Outstanding (Millions) 45
 Employees 1,063
 Revenues (TTM) (Millions $) 356
 Net Income (TTM) (Millions $) 5
 Cash Flow (TTM) (Millions $) 40
 Capital Exp. (TTM) (Millions $) 29

Vicor Corporation

Vicor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting, regulating, and controlling electric current. We consider power components analogous to building blocks, and our strategy is based largely on products, performing distinct functions, that can be flexibly combined to enable a complete power system. We serve customers with applications for which the high conversion efficiency (i.e., the ratio of output power in watts to the power consumed by the device) and high power density (i.e., the amount of power in watts divided by the volume of the device) of our products are well suited. We also offer a range of subsystems, utilizing our modular components, to meet the specific needs of certain customers.

In the market segments we serve, we position the Company as a vendor of power components that can be utilized individually, given their market-leading performance, or combined, given their level of integration, to create highly-differentiated power management solutions. We articulate this positioning through our “Power Component Design Methodology”, which is our approach to providing our customers the modular products, design tools, and support to enable the rapid design of comprehensive power conversion and management systems.

Our Vicor Custom Power™ locations are geographically distributed across the United States and all are incorporated in Delaware. In December 2015, we completed the statutory merger of one Vicor Custom Power subsidiary, Mission Power Solutions, Inc., with and into another subsidiary, Northwest Power, Inc., after which we closed the Mission Power Solutions location. Also in December 2015, we sold our 49% ownership interest in Aegis Power Systems, Inc. to Aegis Power Systems, thereby ending our formal relationship with the subsidiary. The consolidated financial statements presented herein reflect these transactions.


Internationally, we conduct business through subsidiaries incorporated in or branch offices established in individual countries. Vicor Japan Company, Ltd. (“VJCL”), our majority-owned Japanese subsidiary, which is engaged in sales and customer support activities exclusively for the Japanese market, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Vicor B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary incorporated in the Netherlands, serves as our European distribution center. We have established individual subsidiaries or branch offices to conduct the activities of Technical Support Centers (“TSCs”) located outside of the United States.


VLT, Inc., incorporated in California, is our wholly-owned licensing subsidiary. VICR Securities Corporation, incorporated in Massachusetts, is a subsidiary established to hold certain investment securities.


We were incorporated in Delaware in 1981. Shares of our Common Stock were listed on the NASDAQ National Market System in April 1990 under the ticker symbol VICR, and we completed an initial public offering of our shares in May 1991.

In electrically-powered devices utilizing alternating current (“AC”) voltage from a primary AC source (for example, a wall outlet), a power system converts AC voltage into the stable direct current (“DC”) voltage necessary to power subsystems and/or individual applications and devices (known as “loads”). In many electronic devices, this DC voltage may be further converted to one or more higher or lower voltages required by a range of loads. In equipment utilizing DC voltage from a primary DC source (for example, a battery), the initial DC voltage similarly may require further conversion to one or more voltages. Because numerous applications requiring different DC voltages and varied power ratings may exist within an electronic device, and system power architectures themselves vary, we offer an extensive range of products and accessories in numerous application-specific configurations. We believe our product offering is among the most comprehensive in the market segments we serve.
Since the Company was founded, our product strategy has been driven by innovations in design, largely enabled by our focus on the development of differentiated technologies, often implemented in proprietary semiconductor circuitry. Many of our products incorporate patented or proprietary implementations of high-frequency switching topologies, which enable the design of converter modules much smaller and more efficient than conventional alternatives. Emphasizing the superior power density and performance advantages of this technology, our primary product strategy since our founding has been to offer a comprehensive range of component-level building blocks to configure a power system specific to a customer’s needs.


Our strategy, competitive positioning, and product offerings, all based on highly differentiated product performance, have anticipated the evolution of system power architectures. As system designs advanced along with the demands of the loads powered, the inherent limitations of historically accepted system power architectures have caused designers to seek out improved solutions.


In 1984, we introduced a significant enhancement of the standardized DC-DC converter: the fully-encapsulated “brick” module. Our innovative, patented technology utilized our implementation of zero current soft switching topology to deliver unprecedentedly high switching frequencies and, in turn, unprecedented power density. Superior conversion efficiency, overall performance improvements, and full encapsulation (which provided shielding from environmental influences) contributed to significant enhancement of thermal performance characteristics, an important competitive advantage. Such thermal performance enhancement has been critical to the differentiation of our power converters, as the by-product of voltage conversion is heat, which must be dissipated in order to assure the performance of the converter itself and the overall system to which it is delivering power.


The brick module integrated transformation, regulation, isolation, filtering, and/or input protection into a single device, thereby driving the adoption of the Distributed Power Architecture (“DPA”). The dominant system power architecture up until that time, the Centralized Power Architecture (“CPA”), generates all system voltages centrally and distributes these voltages to loads using individual distribution buses (i.e., a conductive circuit, generally made of copper). CPA became expensive and impractical for electronic systems increasingly characterized by widely distributed loads requiring lower voltages, higher currents, and higher speeds. DPA, enabled by the brick concept, allows the distribution of one DC voltage system-wide and downstream conversion of that voltage, with a brick, at a specific load. This approach allows electricity to be distributed through a complex system in the most efficient manner, at a uniform higher voltage (typically 48 volts), thereby dramatically reducing distribution and conversion losses, lowering copper consumption, and significantly increasing design flexibility. With patented advances in switching topology and converter design, Vicor became a leading vendor of brick DC-DC converters in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly within the telecommunications infrastructure segment of the market.


With the advent of enterprise computing in the 1990s, the limitations of DPA became apparent, as the number of different loads on a system board increased beyond the level for which DPA and bricks were well- suited. The Intermediate Bus Architecture (“IBA”), a multi-stage extension of DPA, addressed the space constraints, performance requirements, and cost challenges of highly complex system boards by further separating the functions of DC conversion carried out by the brick, which in IBA is replaced by an isolated bus converter delivering a stepped-down (i.e., reduced), unregulated voltage to a non-isolated point-of-load regulator. For computing and, later, networking applications, IBA was more scalable and cost-efficient, as numerous brick DC-DC converters on a system board were replaced by one brick DC-DC converter, providing one system-wide distributed voltage, accompanied by numerous, lower-cost bus converters providing an intermediate bus voltage, typically from 5 to 14 volts, to point-of-load regulators.

Reflecting our Power Component Design Methodology, we offer a comprehensive range of individual, highly integrated building blocks enabling design of a power system specific to a customer’s needs. Since introducing and popularizing the encapsulated brick package format during the 1980s, our product focus has been on high performance DC-DC switching converters providing the transformation, regulation, isolation, filtering, and/or input protection necessary to power and protect sophisticated electronic loads. With the development of FPA, VI Chip modules, Picor point-of-load regulators, and, most recently, ChiP modules and the VIA packaging platform, we believe we offer the most advanced range of high-performance power components in the industry. A secondary and highly complementary product strategy has been to vertically integrate our component-level building blocks into complete power systems representing turnkey AC-DC and DC-DC solutions for our customers’ power needs.



   Company Address: 25 Frontage Road Andover 1810 MA
   Company Phone Number: 470-2900   Stock Exchange / Ticker: NASDAQ VICR


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Vicor introduces new high-density automotive-grade power modules

Published Wed, Oct 16 2024 1:02 PM UTC

The Electric Revolution: How Advanced Power Solutions are Reshaping Transportation and Urban InnovationAs the world transitions towards sustainable energy solutions, two equally transformative narratives are emerging from the landscape of automotive and smart city technologies. On one front, Vicor Corporation is unveiling advanced power module architectures that could redef...

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Vicor Corporation Faces Class Action Investors Urged to Act Ahead of Deadline

Published Fri, Sep 20 2024 9:35 PM UTC

In a significant development for investors in Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ: VICR), the Rosen Law Firm has issued a reminder concerning an impending deadline for a securities class action lawsuit. Shareholders who purchased common stock between April 26, 2023, and February 22, 2024, are advised to secure legal counsel by September 23, 2024. This alert from one of the leading glo...

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Investors in Vicor Corporation Urged to Secure Counsel by September 23 as Securities Class Action Process Advances,

Published Thu, Sep 12 2024 9:58 PM UTC

Investors in Vicor Corporation Urged to Act Before September 23 Deadline as Class Action Lawsuit Advances New York, September 12, 2024 In a notable development for shareholders of Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ: VICR), Rosen Law Firm, a prestigious global investor rights law firm, has issued a significant reminder for those who purchased Vicor common stock during the Class Pe...

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for the Deadline Looms for Vicor Corporation Investors in Groundbreaking Securities Class Action Legal Cou...

Published Sat, Sep 7 2024 8:17 PM UTC

Investors of Vicor Corporation Urged to Take Action Ahead of Crucial Deadlines in Securities Class Action Lawsuits NEW YORK, Sept. 07, 2024 The Rosen Law Firm, a leading global investor rights law firm, is encouraging investors who purchased common stock of Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ: VICR) between April 26, 2023, and February 22, 2024, to secure legal counsel ahead of an...

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Legal Proceedings Surround Vicor Corporation as Class Action Lawsuit Looms

Published Thu, Sep 5 2024 5:03 PM UTC

New York, September 5, 2024 Investors in Vicor Corporation are being alerted to a developing class action securities lawsuit, as announced by the law firm Levi & Korsinsky, LLP. The firm is reminding shareholders that the deadline for appointing a lead plaintiff in this case is set for September 23, 2024.Vicor Corporation, traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker VICR, has f...







Vicor's Segments
Brick Products    47.19 % of total Revenue
Advanced Products    53.27 % of total Revenue
United States    51.24 % of total Revenue
United States Brick Products    26.89 % of total Revenue
United States Advanced Products    24.35 % of total Revenue
Europe    11.81 % of total Revenue
Europe Brick Products    8.52 % of total Revenue
Europe Advanced Products    3.28 % of total Revenue
Asia Pacific    36.89 % of total Revenue
Asia Pacific Brick Products    11.62 % of total Revenue
Asia Pacific Advanced Products    25.27 % of total Revenue
All Other    0.52 % of total Revenue
All Other Brick Products    0.15 % of total Revenue
All Other Advanced Products    0.37 % of total Revenue
Direct Customers Contract Manufacturers and Non-stocking Distributors    59.58 % of total Revenue
Direct Customers Contract Manufacturers and Non-stocking Distributors Brick Products    27.88 % of total Revenue
Direct Customers Contract Manufacturers and Non-stocking Distributors Advanced Products    31.71 % of total Revenue
Stocking distributors net of sales allowances    25.98 % of total Revenue
Stocking distributors net of sales allowances Brick Products    19.11 % of total Revenue
Stocking distributors net of sales allowances Advanced Products    6.87 % of total Revenue
Non-recurring engineering    0.09 % of total Revenue
Non-recurring engineering Brick Products    0.2 % of total Revenue
Non-recurring engineering Advanced Products    -0.11 % of total Revenue
Royalties    14.42 % of total Revenue
Royalties Advanced Products    14.42 % of total Revenue
Other    0.39 % of total Revenue
Other Advanced Products    0.39 % of total Revenue





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