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RICHARDSON ELECTRONICS, LTD.

Consumer DiscretionaryWholesale
Ticker RELLLAFOX, ILFiscal year ends MayBook value per share $12.90Diluted shares 12.7M

Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RELL) operates as a global manufacturer of engineered solutions, green energy products, power grid and microwave tubes, and related consumables. The company maintains its website at www.rell.com and serves customers across alternative energy, healthcare, aviation, broadcast,… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2026 · ends 05-30Changes are against fiscal 2025
Sales & profitability
$228.56M
+9.4% year over year
2.83%
+4 percentage points
$6.38M
+658.4% year over year
3.90%
+4.6 percentage points
Cash & financing
$0.76M
−92.8% year over year
$-3.62M
−146.8% year over year
—
12.7M
+3.2% year over year

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What RICHARDSON ELECTRONICS, LTD. does

In the company’s own words

Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RELL) operates as a global manufacturer of engineered solutions, green energy products, power grid and microwave tubes, and related consumables. The company maintains its website at www.rell.com and serves customers across alternative energy, healthcare, aviation, broadcast, communications, industrial, marine, medical, military, scientific, and semiconductor markets.

The company operates through three reportable segments following a fiscal 2026 realignment. Power and Microwave Technologies combines engineered solutions capabilities with power grid and microwave tube business, offering RF, wireless, and power technologies to customers in 5G, aviation, broadcast, communications, industrial, marine, medical, military, scientific, and semiconductor markets. Green Energy Solutions designs and manufactures innovative products for energy storage and power management applications, including solutions for wind, solar, hydrogen, electric vehicles, and synthetic diamond manufacturing. Canvys provides customized display solutions serving corporate enterprise, financial, healthcare, industrial, and medical original equipment manufacturer markets, offering touch screens, protective panels, custom enclosures, and specialized computing platforms.

Richardson Electronics maintains manufacturing facilities in LaFox, Illinois; Marlborough, Massachusetts; and Donaueschingen, Germany, with distribution centers across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The company employs 429 individuals as of May 30, 2026, comprising 392 full-time and 37 part-time employees, with 287 based in the United States and 142 internationally. All employees are non-union.

The company maintains over 100,000 part numbers in its product inventory database and estimates that more than 90 percent of orders received by 6:00 p.m. local time are shipped complete the same day for in-stock products. International sales represent 60 percent of consolidated net sales. Richardson Electronics owns proprietary brands including Amperex, Cetron, and National, and maintains distribution agreements with major suppliers including Amperex, CPI, Eimac, General Electric, Hitachi, L3, MACOM, Qorvo, and Thales. In January 2025, the company sold substantial assets of its Healthcare business to DirectMed Imaging while entering into an exclusive ten-year global supply agreement to provide repaired Siemens CT X-ray tubes.

Company details
Sector
Consumer Discretionary
Industry
Wholesale
Headquarters
LAFOX, IL
Fiscal year end
May
CIK
355948
SIC
5065

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2012–2026 · USD
$-34.33M$46.67M$127.67M$208.66M$289.66M201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns RICHARDSON ELECTRONICS, LTD. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

121
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$68.26M
held by funds, at market

Largest fund holders · RICHARDSON ELECTRONICS, LTD.’s weight in each

1.29%of fund net assets
0.31%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.01%of fund net assets
Royce Micro-Cap Fund
RYOTX · ROYCE FUND
1.25%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Could not be determined for this company: bond issues.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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