We Compiled the Most Important Facts About ASML

By Chris Stiles • Wednesday, December 13 12:04 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about ASML over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery stock at a price of $720.84? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

ASML has moved 17.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 16.2%
ASML has an average analyst rating of buy and is 5.33% away from its mean target price of $684.38 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $20.75
ASML has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 34.7 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $21.31 and its forward P/E ratio is 33.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 23.64 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
ASML is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 35.0 and an average P/B of 7.92
ASML has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 12.1% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $4.57 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
ASML Holding N.V. develops, produces, markets, sells, and services advanced semiconductor equipment systems consisting of lithography, metrology, and inspection systems for memory and logic chipmakers. The company provides extreme ultraviolet lithography systems; and deep ultraviolet lithography systems comprising immersion and dry lithography solutions to manufacture various range of semiconductor nodes and technologies. It also offers metrology and inspection systems, including YieldStar optical metrology solutions to assess the quality of patterns on the wafers; and HMI e-beam solutions to locate and analyze individual chip defects. In addition, the company provides computational lithography and lithography process and control software solutions; and refurbishes and upgrades older lithography systems, as well as offers customer support and associated services. It operates in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, rest of Asia, the Netherlands, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. The company was formerly known as ASM Lithography Holding N.V. and changed its name to ASML Holding N.V. in 2001. ASML Holding N.V. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.

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