Axcelis Technologies (ACLS) Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Axcelis Technologies in the last twelve months. There are currently 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ACLS shares.
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7 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Axcelis Technologies' stock. Their ACLS share price forecasts range from $140.00 to $155.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $145.33 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.9%.
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Axcelis Technologies' stock was trading at $79.36 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, ACLS shares have increased by 115.1% and is now trading at $170.70.
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Axcelis Technologies saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,500,000 shares, a drop of 5.7% from the April 30th total of 1,590,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 573,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Currently, 4.7% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 2nd 2023.
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Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACLS) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 4th. The semiconductor company reported $1.43 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.25 by $0.18. The semiconductor company earned $254.02 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $239.89 million. Axcelis Technologies had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 29.43% and a net margin of 19.49%. Axcelis Technologies's quarterly revenue was up 24.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.22 earnings per share.

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Axcelis Technologies updated its second quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.44-$1.48 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $1.46. The company issued revenue guidance of $255.00 million-$260.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $249.58 million.

45 employees have rated Axcelis Technologies Chief Executive Officer Mary G. Puma on Glassdoor.com. Mary G. Puma has an approval rating of 38% among the company's employees. This puts Mary G. Puma in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Axcelis Technologies trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ACLS."

Axcelis Technologies' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (16.61%), State Street Corp (3.38%), FMR LLC (3.18%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.14%), Wellington Management Group LLP (2.77%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.95%). Insiders that own company stock include Arthur L George Jr, Dennis Thomas St, Douglas A Lawson, Douglas A Lawson, Greg Redinbo, John T Kurtzweil, Jorge Titinger, Joseph P Keithley, Joseph P Keithley, Kevin J Brewer, Lynnette C Fallon, Lynnette C Fallon, Mary G Puma, Mary G Puma, R John Fletcher, Russell Low, Tzu Yin Chiu, William J Bintz and William J Bintz.
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One share of ACLS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $170.70.

Axcelis Technologies (NASDAQ:ACLS) has a market capitalization of $5.58 billion and generates $920 million in revenue each year. The semiconductor company earns $183.08 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.67 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,485 workers across the globe.

Axcelis Technologies' mailing address is 108 CHERRY HILL DRIVE, BEVERLY MA, 01915. The official website for the company is www.axcelis.com. The semiconductor company can be reached via phone at (978) 787-4000, via email at investor.relations@axcelis.com, or via fax at 978-787-3000.