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IQE PLC (IQE.L) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for IQE.L, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Semiconductor Equipment & Materials · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against IQE.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — IQE PLC

IQE.L in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
IQE develops and manufactures advanced semiconductor materials, supplying compound-semiconductor wafers used in radio-frequency devices, photonic sensors and silicon-based chip processes. It organises the business into three segments — Wireless, Photonics and CMOS++ — each serving different device makers across wireless communication, light-sensing and silicon compound applications. The company sells to customers across the United States, continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. It was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Cardiff, Wales.
Where it sits in the stack
IQE carries no seat in our index; it sits in the materials sleeve of Closelooknet's semiconductor coverage, supplying the compound wafers that feed later design and fabrication stages of the build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group is not named for this stock; the market sometimes compares it with Soitec, another maker of compound-semiconductor wafers used in wireless and photonic devices.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
IQE carries no index seat and no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary's editions have not quoted it.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the stock's recent bounce off its lows holds or gives way again to the wider downtrend it has shown over the past year.

IQE PLC (IQE.L) trades on the LSE exchange in UK.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is IQE PLC (IQE.L)?

IQE PLC trades as IQE.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is IQE.L in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — IQE PLC is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does IQE.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +24.5% vs the 50-day and +65.9% vs the 200-day average, 21.7% below the 52-week high and +1126.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does IQE PLC compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Semiconductor Equipment & Materials), IQE PLC (IQE.L) sits 21.7% below its 52-week high, 24.5% above its 50-day average; ASML Holding N.V. (ASML.AS) is 4.9% below, ASML Holding N.V. New York Registry Shares (ASML) is 7.0% below, ASM International NV (ASM.AS) is 13.2% below. Put any of them next to IQE.L in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does IQE PLC do?

IQE develops and manufactures advanced semiconductor materials, supplying compound-semiconductor wafers used in radio-frequency devices, photonic sensors and silicon-based chip processes. It organises the business into three segments — Wireless, Photonics and CMOS++ — each serving different device makers across wireless communication, light-sensing and silicon compound applications. The company sells to customers across the United States, continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Closelooknet's peer group is not named for this stock; the market sometimes compares it with Soitec, another maker of compound-semiconductor wafers used in wireless and photonic devices.

Where does IQE PLC sit in the AI build-out?

IQE carries no seat in our index; it sits in the materials sleeve of Closelooknet's semiconductor coverage, supplying the compound wafers that feed later design and fabrication stages of the build-out. IQE carries no index seat and no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary's editions have not quoted it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for IQE.L, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Semiconductor Equipment & Materials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.