DLB — Dolby Laboratories

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Trend Edge Setup Score

Trend Edge rates DLB Bearish with a Setup Score of 33, net conviction 50, actionability 22. How the Setup Score works →

Total Setup Score33
Directional BiasBearish
Net Conviction50
Actionability22 (in range)

Key signals behind this score

About Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of audio, imaging, accessibility, and other hardware and software solutions for television, broadcast, and live entertainment industries in the United States and internationally. The company develops and licenses its audio technologies, such as AAC, HE-AAC, and extended HE-AAC, a digital audio codec solution; AVC, a digital video codec used in STBs, mobile devices, cameras, and broadc… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$49.80
Market Cap$4.74B
Float59.7M
Shares Outstanding60.3M
P/E (Forward)10.82
P/E (TTM)19.89
Price/Sales (TTM)3.47
vs. Analyst Target+57.3% to analyst PT
Profit Margin17.85%
Operating Margin (TTM)29.10%
Revenue (TTM)$1.36B
Earnings Growth (YoY)5.30%
Dividend Rate1.4%
Analyst Target Price$78.33 (4 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $1.16B $231M $1.02B $331M
2021 $1.28B $310M $1.15B $450M
2022 $1.25B $184M $1.11B $319M
2023 $1.01B $191M $892M $219M
2024 $1.27B $262M $1.13B $400M
2025 $1.35B $255M $1.19B $379M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Jun 2025 $316M $46.1M
Sep 2025 $307M $49.3M
Dec 2025 $347M $53.3M
Mar 2026 $396M $94.9M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership1.4%
Institutional Ownership101.7%
Short Float9.7%
% of All Funds Holding4.72%
Number of Funds Holding388

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$53.60Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$61.73Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$68.94Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$75.12Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$61.11Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$68.98Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$74.97Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$56.00 resistance 1.30x 0 months ago
$60.00 resistance 1.45x 1 months ago
$65.00 resistance 1.20x 3 months ago
$67.00 resistance 1.30x 6 months ago
$72.00 resistance 1.24x 8 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (85 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.60% 0.15% 50.59% 20.31% -13.75%
1 Day 1.32% 0.27% 54.12% 33.79% -18.00%
1 Week 0.86% -0.32% 47.06% 46.00% -13.51%
2 Weeks 0.85% 0.11% 50.59% 45.39% -15.90%
1 Month 1.48% 0.27% 53.57% 62.61% -19.14%

Next earnings: July 30, 2026 (17 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan1.6%61.9%21
Feb0.6%61.9%21
Mar1.2%59.1%22
Apr2.6%63.6%22
May-0.8%36.4%22
Jun-0.6%50.0%22
Jul-0.2%57.1%21
Aug-3.8%33.3%21
Sep-2.0%38.1%21
Oct1.5%61.9%21
Nov7.3%81.0%21
Dec0.5%38.1%21

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday -0.05% 48.4% 1007
Tuesday 0.02% 48.9% 1104
Wednesday 0.01% 50.8% 1104
Thursday 0.06% 50.8% 1083
Friday 0.14% 54.4% 1078

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 101.7%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 1.4%

12-Month Insider Activity Summary

Total Filings24
Net Value-$14.2M
Net Shares Change-58,325
% of Float-0.1%
C-Suite Filings22
Clusters Detected4

Key Insiders

NameTitleNet ValueFilingsActivity
YEAMAN KEVIN J President and CEO -$4.5M 1 N/A
SHERMAN MARK ANDREW EVP, Gen. Counsel & Secretary -$1.6M 1 N/A
Couling John D SVP, Entertainment -$1.2M 3 2 sell
Revankar Shriram SVP, Advanced Technology Group -$923,815.09 2 1 sell
Pendleton Todd SVP, Chief Marketing Officer -$647,857.177 1 1 sell
Park Robert J SVP & Chief Financial Officer -$277,424.615 1 N/A
Nicholson Ryan VP, CAO and Corp. Controller -$55,674.158 1 1 sell

Transaction Clusters

PeriodFilingsInsidersNet ValueSeniority
2025-11-24 – 2025-12-03 5 5 -$1.4M 4 C-suite
2025-12-11 – 2025-12-17 4 3 -$7.1M 4 C-suite
2026-02-04 – 2026-02-17 3 3 -$686,682.453 3 C-suite
2026-05-06 – 2026-05-19 3 3 -$1.0M 3 C-suite

Significant Filings

DateInsiderTitleNet ValuePrice After
2026-05-27 Pendleton Todd SVP, Chief Marketing Officer -$647,857.177 Transaction at $54.55, now -8.7%
2026-02-04 Couling John D SVP, Entertainment -$432,588.295 Transaction at $64.89, now -23.2%
2026-02-17 Nicholson Ryan VP, CAO and Corp. Controller -$55,674.158 Transaction at $55.94, now -11.0%
2025-11-24 Couling John D SVP, Entertainment -$407,563.68 Transaction at $66.12, now -24.7%
2025-08-26 Revankar Shriram SVP, Advanced Technology Group -$524,440 Transaction at $74.92, now -33.5%
2026-05-19 Revankar Shriram SVP, Advanced Technology Group -$399,375.09 Transaction at $54.55, now -8.7%

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AI Consult Analysis

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