NASDAQ:ASML

ASML - ASML Stock Forecast, Price & News

$667.39

-16.51 (-2.41%)

(As of 01/27/2023 08:54 PM ET)

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Today's Range: $666.68
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$678.12
50-Day Range: $531.64
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$683.90
52-Week Range: $363.15
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$714.62

Volume: 1.25 million shs
Average Volume: 1.13 million shs
Market Capitalization: $268.69 billion

P/E Ratio: 40.74
Dividend Yield: 0.68%
Price Target: $707.46

Institutional Ownership

ASML MarketRank™ Forecast

Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy
2.89 Rating Score
Upside/Downside: 6.0% Upside
$707.46 Price Target
Short Interest: Healthy
0.33% of Float Sold Short
Dividend Strength: Weak
Based on Four Factors
Sustainability: N/A
News Sentiment: 0.39
Based on 34 Articles This Week
Insider Trading: N/A
Proj. Earnings Growth: 28.29%
From $19.97 to $25.62 Per Share

Overall MarketRank^™

MarketRank is calculated as an average of available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

2.36 out of 5 stars

Computer And Technology Sector

183rd out of 630 stocks

Special Industry Machinery, Not Elsewhere Classified Industry

6th out of 14 stocks

2.4

Analyst's Opinion

Consensus Rating
ASML has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.89, and is based on 14 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.
Price Target Upside/Downside
According to analysts' consensus price target of $707.46, ASML has a forecasted upside of 6.0% from its current price of $667.39.
Amount of Analyst Coverage
ASML has been the subject of 10 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

3.0

Short Interest

Percentage of Shares Shorted
0.33% of the float of ASML has been sold short.
Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover
ASML has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 1, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.
Change versus previous month
Short interest in ASML has recently increased by 22.64%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

1.7

Dividend Strength

Dividend Yield
ASML has a dividend yield of 0.68%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.
Dividend Growth
ASML does not have a long track record of dividend growth.
Dividend Coverage
The dividend payout ratio of ASML is 27.84%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.
Dividend Sustainability
Based on earnings estimates, ASML will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.80% next year. This indicates that ASML will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

N/A

Sustainability and ESG

Overall ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Score
There is no current Upright™ data available for ASML.

3.0

News and Social Media Coverage

News Sentiment
ASML has a news sentiment score of 0.39. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.53 average news sentiment score of Computer and Technology companies.
News Coverage This Week
MarketBeat has tracked 34 news articles for ASML this week, compared to 6 articles on an average week.
Search Interest
122 people have searched for ASML on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 23% compared to the previous 30 days.
MarketBeat Follows
45 people have added ASML to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 18% compared to the previous 30 days.

0.0

Company Ownership

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling
In the past three months, ASML insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.
Percentage Held by Institutions
Only 18.61% of the stock of ASML is held by institutions.

3.1

Earnings and Valuation

Earnings Growth
Earnings for ASML are expected to grow by 28.29% in the coming year, from $19.97 to $25.62 per share.
Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market
The P/E ratio of ASML is 40.74, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 122.75.
Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector
The P/E ratio of ASML is 40.74, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 304.90.
Price to Earnings Growth Ratio
ASML has a PEG Ratio of 1.35. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.
Price to Book Value per Share Ratio
ASML has a P/B Ratio of 28.94. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

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About ASML (NASDAQ:ASML) Stock

ASML Holding N.V. develops, manufactures, markets sells, and services advanced semiconductor equipment systems. The company was founded in 1984 as a joint venture between Advanced Semiconductor Materials International and Phillips in order to develop lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. The company’s vision and mission is helping chipmakers advance global technology for the better of mankind, the company’s IPO was in 1995.

These systems are used to embed layer upon layer of information onto microchips using a variety of methodologies. The three main segments of ASML Holdings operations are lithography, metrology, and inspection-related systems for the memory and logic semiconductor industry. The company’s claim to fame is its ability to empower chipmakers to mass produce patterns in silicon. Two of the key areas of advancement are the resolution of projection the company is able to achieve and the size (very small) of the chips its products can make.

ASML Holding was formerly known as ASML Lithography Holding N.V. but changed its name in 2001. The company is headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands and has operations in Europe, North America, Japan, China, and Taiwan among others. ASML Holdings employs more than 32,000 people including 122 nationalities working in more than 60 locations globally but the road to succes was not without difficulty. ASML Holdings nearly went out of business in the late ‘80s but an investment from Phillips board member Henk Bodt and the development of the PAS 5500 lithography system sealed the company’s fate. The PAS 5500s turned out to be such an advancement in microchip lithography there are many still in use today.

ASML is the only company currently offering Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography systems to the chipmaking industry and the technology is widely used. The lithography systems project and imprint a pattern onto the chip and then repeat the pattern over and over again building layers of patterns that drive its functionality. Because ASML Holdings technology is so widely used, it is highly likely the device you are using to read this company profile is powered by chips made with ASML devices.

The company not only provides extreme ultraviolet lithography systems but it also manufactures deep ultraviolet lithography systems comprising immersion technology and dry lithography solutions to manufacture various ranges of semiconductor nodes and technologies. This is important because each layer of semiconductor patterns may require a different methodology to imprint.

In addition to lithography technology, ASML Holding also offers metrology and inspection systems to gauge and maintain the quality of production. ASML metrology tools include YieldStar optical metrology solutions which measure the quality of patterns embedded on the semiconductor wafers. ASML also offers HMI e-beam solutions that can locate and analyze production defects on individual chips.

Another of the cutting-edge services provided by the company is computational lithography and the software solutions to go along with it. Computational lithography is a science of advancing semiconductor technology and the processes behind semiconductor manufacturing and is in high demand on a global scale. Along with this, ASML has a suite of products and services for maintaining and rebuilding used semiconductor lithography equipment.

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