ASML Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ASML in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ASML stock.
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ASML saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,300,000 shares, an increase of 15.0% from the December 31st total of 1,130,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 790,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.6 days. Currently, 0.3% of the company's shares are short sold.
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ASML is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 21st 2021.
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ASML Holding (NASDAQ:ASML) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January, 19th. The semiconductor company reported $3.23 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.05 by $0.18. The semiconductor company had revenue of $3.96 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.73 billion. ASML had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 25.91% and a net margin of 24.30%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 1.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.70 earnings per share.
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ASML's stock was trading at $264.14 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, ASML stock has increased by 114.7% and is now trading at $567.09.
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ASML announced a semi-annual dividend on Monday, January 25th. Investors of record on Tuesday, May 4th will be paid a dividend of $1.8864 per share on Wednesday, May 12th. This represents a yield of 0.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, May 3rd. This is a boost from ASML's previous semi-annual dividend of $1.41.
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ASML pays an annual dividend of $2.37 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.42%. ASML does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of ASML is 34.40%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ASML will have a dividend payout ratio of 20.77% next year. This indicates that ASML will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ASML updated its first quarter 2021 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 20th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.641-4.879 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.57 billion.

16 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for ASML's shares. Their forecasts range from $322.00 to $640.00. On average, they expect ASML's share price to reach $500.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.7%.
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132 employees have rated ASML CEO Robert P. Akins on Glassdoor.com. Robert P. Akins has an approval rating of 73% among ASML's employees.

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ASML trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ASML."

ASML's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.59%), FMR LLC (1.10%), WCM Investment Management LLC (1.05%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.92%), Sands Capital Management LLC (0.55%) and BlackRock Inc. (0.44%).

ASML stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sands Capital Management LLC, Primecap Management Co. CA, Morgan Stanley, Cambiar Investors LLC, Bessemer Group Inc., Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, BlackRock Inc., and General American Investors Co. Inc..

ASML stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Clearbridge Investments LLC, Winslow Capital Management LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, FMR LLC, Van ECK Associates Corp, and WCM Investment Management LLC.

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One share of ASML stock can currently be purchased for approximately $567.09.

ASML has a market capitalization of $238.07 billion and generates $13.24 billion in revenue each year. The semiconductor company earns $2.90 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.89 on an earnings per share basis.

ASML employs 26,614 workers across the globe.

The official website for ASML is www.asml.com.

ASML is headquartered at DE RUN 6501, DR VELDHOVEN P7, 5500.

ASML's mailing address is DE RUN 6501, DR VELDHOVEN P7, 5500. The semiconductor company can be reached via phone at 1 480 235 0934 or via email at [email protected]