Adeia Inc.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $26.50, Adeia Inc. (ADEA) is priced for +9.9% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Adeia manufactures nothing and sells nothing: it owns patents and licenses them, with media rights supplying 94% of revenue and semiconductor rights 6%, and its chip licensees include ⟦Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Sony⟧. • The single biggest risk is timing rather than demand, because a licensing renewal that slips a quarter takes its whole payment with it, a hazard the 10-K states plainly: ⟦The structure and timing of our IP license agreements may cause fluctuations in our quart
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247 institutional managers reported holding ADEA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 94% of the company; the top 10 hold 61%. 50 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 8.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 8% of shares outstanding (3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
ADEA's share count grew 4.4% over the past five years even with $142.04M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (7 and counting); the current rate is $0.20 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $59.77M in dividends and $51.36M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at ADEA over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 11 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
ADEA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-08 | -13.0% | -11.7% |
| 2023-11-07 | +3.2% | +26.0% |
| 2024-02-24 | -2.0% | -10.9% |
| 2024-05-09 | +11.4% | +0.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ADEA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-03 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-28 (items 5.02); 2026-07-01 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-04 (items 5.02, 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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