ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) Stock

About ASML Holding N.V.

ASML Holding N.V. provides lithography solutions for the development, production, marketing, sales, upgrading, and servicing of advanced semiconductor equipment systems. The company offers lithography, metrology, and inspection systems. It also provides extreme ultraviolet lithography systems; and deep ultraviolet lithography systems comprising immersion and dry lithography systems solutions to manufacture various range of semiconductor nodes and technologies. In addition, the company offers metrology and inspection systems, including YieldStar optical metrology systems, a diffraction-based wafer metrology platform to assess the quality of patterns on the wafers; and HMI electron beam solutions to locate and analyze individual chip defects. Further, it 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. Additionally, the company offers hardware, software, and services to chipmakers to produce the patterns of integrated circuits. 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.

ASML Holding N.V. is led by CEO Christophe D. Fouquet, employs 43,129 people, headquartered in Veldhoven, US, publicly traded since 1995.

ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) stock trades at $1550.69 with a market capitalization of $597.66B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 50.00, price-to-book of 1329.49, price-to-sales of 14.44. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $631.00 and $1998.39, and currently trades 22.4% below its 52-week high.

On profitability, ASML Holding N.V. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 52.24% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 57.65%, an operating margin of 34.59%, a net profit margin of 29.71%.

In its most recent fiscal year, ASML Holding N.V. reported annual revenue of $32.7B, net profit of $9.6B, revenue has compounded at 18.5% a year over the last five years, profit at 22.0% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.26, total assets of $50.5B, $12.9B in cash and equivalents.

ASML has an average daily trading volume of 1,942,167 shares, a beta of 1.40 (more volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.asml.com