Chipmaking equipment supplier ASML might split its stock soon, but there are also signs of a longer wait. Find out why investors should care.Chipmaking equipment manufacturer ASML Holding (ASML 3.64%) has split its stock five times so far, but it's been a while since the last time. The stock trades around $870 today, and it might be time to carve that $343 billion market cap into a larger number of slices.Stock splits are simple accounting moves; they don't change the total value of the company, and they do ...

 Netherlands-based ASML Holdings (NASDAQ:ASML) was one of the best-performing stocks on the Nasdaq 100 exchange in the first quarter of 2024. As artificial intelligence mania gripped the market and chip companies invested billions into the technology, ASML soared, rising 33% over the first three months of the year.That’s because the semiconductor equipment manufacturer has a virtual monopoly on the manufacturing of the critical equipment chipmakers need to make AI chips. Its extreme ultraviolet lithography ...

ASML and Meta Platforms could split their high-flying shares soon.Several of the market's hottest artificial intelligence (AI) companies -- including Nvidia, Broadcom, and Super Micro Computer -- all split their stocks or announced their plans to do so over the past year. Those events didn't actually make their high-flying stocks fundamentally cheaper, since they simply split their existing shares into smaller slices, but they still attracted a lot of attention from retail investors who wanted to buy entire ...

The EUV lithography maker reported solid earnings, but general fears over the extended AI trade brought it down.Shares of key semiconductor equipment supplier ASML Holdings (ASML 4.12%) fell 11.8% in July, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.ASML makes extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines crucial to making cutting-edge semiconductors for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. So expectations were high heading into the month, with ASML up about 40% on the year heading into Jul ...

While the idea of betting on a strong enterprise in the hopes that it will rise even higher is a valid one, arguably most investors prefer the opposite concept: finding undervalued stocks – especially those that Wall Street may be ignoring – that have a chance of shocking everyone.It’s a riskier approach, to be sure. When betting on a strong enterprise, you’re typically dealing with a robust business that enjoys a predictable revenue stream. When looking at undervalued stocks, the business itself may be str ...

Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd/DigitalVision via Getty Images We previously covered ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) (OTCPK:ASMLF) in June 2024, discussing why we had maintained our Buy rating despite the stock's premium valuations and stock prices. Given that generative AI remained in the early innings of hypergrowth, with multiple semiconductor and server companies guiding robust numbers and intensifying capex to capture the booming AI market, we had believed that the lithography equipment company ...

The chip equipment maker could be excluded from new export restrictions.Shares of ASML Holdings (ASML 7.38%), the world's largest provider of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, were moving higher today. They were buoyed by an analyst upgrade last night, news that it could be excluded from U.S. chip export restrictions on China, and a broad surge in chip stocks, following a strong earnings report from Advanced Micro Devices.As of 10:18 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the stock was up 7.4%. ASML bounces backJuly ha ...

The Dutch semiconductor giant ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML) was among the first companies to offer a significant stock market reaction to the reports that multiple crucial U.S. allies – the Netherlands, Japan, and South Korea being the three named by press time on July 31 – could be exempt from President Biden’s restrictions on high-tech exports to China.The stock, which has already offered a substantial 19.99% rise in 2024 but suffered a major 16.76% drop in the last 30 days, rocketed in Wednesday pre-mar ...

Key TakeawaysDutch firm ASML's shares soared as the U.S. reportedly prepares to exclude chip-equipment makers in the Netherlands, Japan, and South Korea from its latest set of trade curbs aimed at China's tech advance.According to Reuters, shipments from several exporters of key chipmaking equipment won’t be included from a Biden administration expansion of the Foreign Direct Product Rule next month.Places whose exports would be affected by the expanded curbs would include Taiwan, Israel, Singapore, and Mal ...

ToplineChip stocks rallied on Wednesday following a report the United States will exempt allies like Japan and the Netherlands from expected trade restrictions on advanced semiconductor technology, paring losses in the wake of a bruising tech stock rout the day before as investors question whether big tech’s big bets on AI are paying off.Semiconductor stocks rallied on Wednesday. Getty Images Key FactsStock for major computer chip companies in Japan, the Netherlands and South Korea soared after Reuters repo ...