One-glance verdict
Undervalued
$6.13 our estimate vs market $1.50
76% below our estimate, below the bear case
Fundamentals snapshot
Senstar Technologies Corporation
SNT · NGM · Industrials · Security & Protection Services
Current price
$1.50
52-week range
$1.43 - $5.34
Market cap
$35.00M
Balance sheet
Healthy
20.76x Strong cushion
Net cash $7.40M. Interest coverage shows how many times profit covers the interest bill.
What stands out
3 Rewards
3 Risks
3 rewards · 3 risks
- Reward Revenue grew 1.7% last year.
- Reward Returns 1.2% on equity, ahead of 33% of its peers.
- Risk Stock trades 205.5% above its 5-year average P/E.
- Risk Insider ownership is only 0.0% (peer median: 4.3%).
What this company does
Senstar Technologies Corporation
Senstar Technologies creates and sells high-tech security systems for protecting important sites like airports, power plants, and prisons. The company makes its money selling physical security products, such as smart fence sensors and buried detectors, as well as intelligent video management software to customers globally. This matters because governments and large businesses are increasingly focused on protecting their critical infrastructure (the essential facilities and services that a country needs to function) from physical threats.
How the company got here
Senstar began in 1981 as a Canadian company that spun off from a larger firm to focus on commercial security systems. It initially made a name for itself in the corrections market, providing security for prisons. Over the years, it was bought and sold by several companies and expanded its product line through acquisitions, adding expertise in areas like fiber optic sensors and personal emergency systems. A major shift occurred in 2021 when it sold off its large-scale security projects division to concentrate on being a specialized provider of security sensing technology and rebranded as Senstar Technologies. More recently, in 2026, it acquired a company called Blickfeld to add 3D LiDAR (a remote sensing method that uses light to measure ranges) to its capabilities.
What it actually does
Senstar creates and sells a range of security products designed to protect large, important facilities like airports, military bases, power plants, and prisons. Think of it as a high-tech security guard for critical locations. Their products include sensors that can be attached to fences, buried underground, or mounted on walls to detect intruders. They also provide sophisticated video management software that uses artificial intelligence to analyze camera footage and identify potential threats. The company's goal is to combine different types of sensors and software to create a complete, integrated security system that can accurately detect and respond to intrusions.
Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems
This is the company's original and core business, making up a significant part of its sales. Senstar produces a variety of sensors that act like a virtual tripwire around a property. These include fiber optic cables that can be attached to fences to feel for vibrations from climbing or cutting, as well as buried sensors that create an invisible detection field. Customers for these systems are typically organizations with large outdoor areas to protect, such as correctional facilities, energy companies with power stations, and military bases. The company has installed enough of these systems to circle the globe.
Video and Security Management Software
A key part of Senstar's business is its software platform, primarily known as Senstar Symphony. This software acts as the brain of the security system, connecting to various cameras and sensors. It allows security personnel to monitor live video, record events, and receive alerts about potential intrusions. A crucial feature is its use of video analytics (using computers to automatically analyze video to detect and determine events), which can automatically identify people, vehicles, and suspicious activities. This software is sold to the same types of customers who buy their physical sensors, often as part of an integrated package.
LiDAR and Multi-Sensor Systems
This is a newer, but growing, part of Senstar's business, especially after its 2026 acquisition of Blickfeld. LiDAR is a technology that uses lasers to create a 3D map of an area, allowing for very precise detection and tracking of objects. Senstar is also developing "MultiSensor" products that combine several different types of sensors—like radar, infrared, and video—into a single device. The goal of these advanced systems is to use sensor fusion (intelligently combining data from different sensors) to provide more accurate alerts and reduce false alarms, which is a major problem in the security industry.
What management is betting on now
Management is focused on integrating its recent acquisition of Blickfeld to become a leader in the growing market for LiDAR security solutions. They are also emphasizing the power of "sensor fusion," the idea that combining multiple types of detection technology (like fence sensors, video analytics, and LiDAR) creates a much more reliable and intelligent security system than any single product could on its own. The company is targeting growth in specific industries like data centers, energy, and logistics. By launching new, more advanced products, they aim to increase their revenue (the total amount of money generated from sales) and profitability.
Price history
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Earnings history
Last 8 quarters — what happened
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FY2024 Q4
$6.38M
FY2025 Q4
$1.20M
Revenue
$36.37M
Net income
$3.22M
Diluted EPS
0.14
Operating cash flow
$1.75M
Free cash flow
$1.20M
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Revenue
$35.75M
Net income
$2.64M
Diluted EPS
0.11
Operating cash flow
$6.66M
Free cash flow
$6.38M
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Is it cheap or expensive?
Fair value $6.13 vs current price $1.50
Our most-likely fair value is $6.13 a share — about 308.8% above today's price of $1.50, so the stock currently looks cheap (undervalued).
Is it drowning in debt?
Healthy
Net cash $7.4M - more cash than debt. Interest coverage 20.8x.
Net debt
$-7.40M
Interest coverage
20.76x
Senstar Technologies Corporation's profit covers its interest bill about 20.8 times over. which is stronger than most peers shown here and 3 peers sit below 1x, which is the danger zone where profit does not fully cover the interest bill.
Healthy
Worse cushion
Baseline
Better cushion
SNT
BASELINE
Senstar Technologies Corporation
Total debt $598.00K Interest coverage 20.76x This is the baseline the peer rows are being compared against.
Total debt $5.18M Interest coverage 217.80x +949% vs SNT Carries about 10.5x more debt cushion than SNT.
Total debt $41.57M Interest coverage -26.44x -100% vs SNT This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with SNT.
Total debt $4.22M Interest coverage -9.00x -100% vs SNT This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with SNT.
Total debt $5.72M Interest coverage 1.11x -95% vs SNT Carries about 18.6x less debt cushion than SNT.
Total debt $23.16M Interest coverage -0.13x -100% vs SNT This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with SNT.
What you should know
The case for and against SNT
3 Rewards
3 Risks
Rewards
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Revenue grew 1.7% last year.
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Returns 1.2% on equity, ahead of 33% of its peers.
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Free cash flow was positive in 3/10 years.
Risks
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Stock trades 205.5% above its 5-year average P/E.
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Insider ownership is only 0.0% (peer median: 4.3%).
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Operating margin compressed from 4.2% to 3.3% over 3 years.
The numbers
All the key metrics, grouped by purpose
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Valuation
How expensive the stock looks
P/E (TTM)
75.00x
Forward P/E
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P/B
0.81x
P/S
0.95x
EV/EBITDA
22.24x
PEG ratio
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Profitability
How much profit each dollar creates
Gross margin
63.4%
Operating margin
3.3%
Net margin
1.3%
ROE
1.2%
ROA
0.9%
Health
Liquidity and balance-sheet strength
Debt / equity
0.01x
Current ratio
3.58x
Quick ratio
2.67x
Total debt
$598.00K
Total cash
$8.00M
Growth
How the business has been compounding
Revenue TTM
$140.48M
Revenue 5Y CAGR
1.0%
EPS TTM
0.02
EPS 5Y CAGR
-4.4%
Cash flow
How much cash the business throws off
Operating CF TTM
$-844.00K
Free CF TTM
$1.20M
FCF margin
0.9%
Dividend
Shareholder payout
Yield
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Payout ratio
0.0%
Last ex-div date
2021-09-23