Shares in ASML Holding show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● Graphically speaking, the timing seems perfect for purchasing the stock close to the EUR 157.55 support.
● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● The tendency within the weekly time frame is positive above the technical support level at 145.15 EUR
Weaknesses
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● The company benefits from high valuations in earnings multiples.
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ASML Holding N.V. is one of the world leaders in the manufacturing of lithography equipment for the semiconductor industry. The group's equipment is used to print integrated circuits on very thin silicon chips. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of lithography equipment (79.6%). The group also offers optical products and components for lithography;
- services (20.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the Netherlands (0.1%), Europe-Middle East-Africa (4.4%), Taiwan (29.3%), South Korea (25.2%), China (26.3%), Japan (2.2%), Singapore (1%), Asia (0.1%) and the United States (11.4%).