How to buy Ultra Clean stock | $34.39

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc is a semiconductor equipment & materials business based in the US. Ultra Clean shares (UCTT) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Ultra Clean employs 3,940 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.3 billion.

How to buy shares in Ultra Clean

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Ultra Clean. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: UCTT. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Ultra Clean reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$34.39, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Ultra Clean, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Ultra Clean. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Ultra Clean share price

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Ultra Clean shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-04.

Latest market close	USD$34.39
52-week range	USD$11.79 - USD$36.26
50-day moving average	USD$26.3511
200-day moving average	USD$24.1469
Wall St. target price	USD$34.83
PE ratio	31.9919
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.112

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Ultra Clean price performance over time

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Is Ultra Clean under- or over-valued?

Valuing Ultra Clean stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Ultra Clean's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Ultra Clean's P/E ratio

Ultra Clean's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 32x. In other words, Ultra Clean shares trade at around 32x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Ultra Clean's PEG ratio

Ultra Clean's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.75. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Ultra Clean's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Ultra Clean's EBITDA

Ultra Clean's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$156.4 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Ultra Clean's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Ultra Clean financials

Revenue TTM	USD$1.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	8.52%
Gross profit TTM	USD$196.8 million
Return on assets TTM	6.82%
Return on equity TTM	9.84%
Profit margin	3.41%
Book value	$12.534
Market capitalisation	USD$1.4 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Ultra Clean shares

There are currently 2.3 million Ultra Clean shares held short by investors – that's known as Ultra Clean's "short interest". This figure is 19.1% down from 2.9 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Ultra Clean shares can be evaluated.

Ultra Clean's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Ultra Clean's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Ultra Clean shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Ultra Clean shares traded daily (recently around 346979.64071856). Ultra Clean's SIR currently stands at 6.68. In other words for every 100,000 Ultra Clean shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6680 shares are currently held short.

However Ultra Clean's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Ultra Clean shares, or, against the total number of tradable Ultra Clean shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Ultra Clean's short interest could be expressed as 0.06% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Ultra Clean shares in existence, roughly 60 shares are currently held short) or 0.0686% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Ultra Clean shares, roughly 69 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Ultra Clean.

Find out more about how you can short Ultra Clean stock.

Ultra Clean share dividends

We're not expecting Ultra Clean to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Ultra Clean share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Ultra Clean's shares have ranged in value from as little as $11.79 up to $36.26. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Ultra Clean's is 2.0115. This would suggest that Ultra Clean's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Ultra Clean overview

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. designs, develops, prototypes, engineers, manufactures, and tests production tools, modules, and subsystems for the semiconductor and display capital equipment industries in the United States and internationally. The company provides subsystems, such as wafer cleaning modules; chemical delivery modules that deliver gases and reactive chemicals in a liquid or gaseous form from a centralized subsystem to the reaction chamber; frame assemblies, a support structures fabricated from steel tubing or folded sheet metal; process modules, a subsystems of semiconductor manufacturing tools that process integrated circuits onto wafers; and top-plate assemblies. It also offers various industrial and automation production equipment products; gas delivery systems, which include one or more gas lines, such as weldments, filters, mass flow controllers, regulators, pressure transducers and valves, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system; fluid delivery systems consists of one or more chemical delivery units, including PFA tubing, filters, flow controllers, regulators, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system; precision robotic systems that are used when accurate controlled motion is required; and other high level assemblies. In addition, the company provides tool chamber parts cleaning and coating services; micro-contamination analysis services for tool parts, wafers and depositions, chemicals, cleanroom materials, deionized water, and airborne molecular contamination; and analytical verification services for process tool chamber part cleaning. It primarily serves original equipment manufacturing customers in the semiconductor capital equipment and semiconductor integrated device manufacturing industries, as well as display, consumer, medical, energy, industrial, and research equipment industries. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Ultra Clean is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 2.478% of Ultra Clean shares are held by insiders and 88.71% by institutions.

• How many people work for Ultra Clean?

  Latest data suggests 3,940 work at Ultra Clean.

• When does the fiscal year end for Ultra Clean?

  Ultra Clean's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Ultra Clean based?

  Ultra Clean's address is: 26462 Corporate Avenue, Hayward, CA, United States, 94545

• What is Ultra Clean's ISIN number?

  Ultra Clean's international securities identification number is: US90385V1070

• What is Ultra Clean's CUSIP number?

  Ultra Clean's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 90385V107