ASML Stock – A Rapid Analysis

By Scott Lee • Thursday, August 01 07:51 • Permanent Link

With gains of 8.9%, ASML was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $936.7 and have logged a 2.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

ASML has moved 37.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.7%
ASML has an average analyst rating of buy and is -19.75% away from its mean target price of $1167.21 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $18.55
ASML has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 50.5 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $32.7 and its forward P/E ratio is 28.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 25.04 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.71
ASML is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 31.58 and an average P/B of 4.11
ASML has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -18.7% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $73.92 Million, 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 for chipmakers. It offers advanced semiconductor equipment systems, including lithography, metrology, and inspection systems. The company also 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. In addition, it offers metrology and inspection systems, including YieldStar optical metrology systems to assess the quality of patterns on the wafers; and HMI electron beam solutions to locate and analyze individual chip defects. Further, the company provides computational lithography solutions, and lithography systems and control software solutions; and refurbishes and upgrades lithography systems, as well as offers customer support and related 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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