How to buy Veeco Instruments stock | $18.61

Veeco Instruments Inc is a semiconductor equipment & materials business based in the US. Veeco Instruments shares (VECO) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Veeco Instruments employs 954 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$428.4 million.

How to buy shares in Veeco Instruments

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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 Veeco Instruments. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: VECO. 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 Veeco Instruments 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$18.61, 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 Veeco Instruments, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Veeco Instruments. 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.

Veeco Instruments share price

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Veeco Instruments shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-29.

Latest market close	USD$18.61
52-week range	USD$7.42 - USD$19.83
50-day moving average	USD$17.0306
200-day moving average	USD$13.8537
Wall St. target price	USD$18.83
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-3.989

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Veeco Instruments price performance over time

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Is Veeco Instruments under- or over-valued?

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

Veeco Instruments's PEG ratio

Veeco Instruments's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.53. 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 Veeco Instruments's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Veeco Instruments's EBITDA

Veeco Instruments's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$44.6 million.

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

Veeco Instruments financials

Revenue TTM	USD$428.4 million
Operating margin TTM	3.04%
Gross profit TTM	USD$158.2 million
Return on assets TTM	0.93%
Return on equity TTM	-10.28%
Profit margin	-9.61%
Book value	$8.024
Market capitalisation	USD$823.3 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Veeco Instruments shares

There are currently 3.8 million Veeco Instruments shares held short by investors – that's known as Veeco Instruments's "short interest". This figure is 7.8% up from 3.5 million last month.

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

Veeco Instruments's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Veeco Instruments's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Veeco Instruments shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Veeco Instruments shares traded daily (recently around 336500.17889088). Veeco Instruments's SIR currently stands at 11.18. In other words for every 100,000 Veeco Instruments shares traded daily on the market, roughly 11180 shares are currently held short.

However Veeco Instruments's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Veeco Instruments shares, or, against the total number of tradable Veeco Instruments shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Veeco Instruments's short interest could be expressed as 0.08% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Veeco Instruments shares in existence, roughly 80 shares are currently held short) or 0.1132% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Veeco Instruments shares, roughly 113 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 10% would generally be considered pretty high, pointing to a potentially pessimistic outlook for the share price and a discouraging interest in betting against Veeco Instruments.

Find out more about how you can short Veeco Instruments stock.

Veeco Instruments share dividends

We're not expecting Veeco Instruments to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Veeco Instruments share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Veeco Instruments's shares have ranged in value from as little as $7.42 up to $19.83. 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 Veeco Instruments's is 1.4168. This would suggest that Veeco Instruments's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Veeco Instruments overview

Veeco Instruments Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports semiconductor and thin film process equipment primarily to make electronic devices worldwide. It offers ion beam deposition and etch systems, laser annealing systems, metal organic chemical vapor deposition systems, packaging lithography equipment; single wafer wet etch and clean systems; molecular beam epitaxy systems; and atomic layer deposition and other deposition systems. The company sells its process equipment systems for use in the production of a range of microelectronic components, including radio frequency filters and amplifiers, power electronics, thin film magnetic heads, laser diodes, 3D NAND, DRAM, logic, mini-and micro-LEDs, micro-electro mechanical systems, and other semiconductor devices, as well as research centers and universities. Veeco Instruments Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Plainview, New York.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Veeco Instruments is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 2.919% of Veeco Instruments shares are held by insiders and 102.185% by institutions.

• How many people work for Veeco Instruments?

  Latest data suggests 954 work at Veeco Instruments.

• When does the fiscal year end for Veeco Instruments?

  Veeco Instruments's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Veeco Instruments based?

  Veeco Instruments's address is: 1 Terminal Drive, Plainview, NY, United States, 11803

• What is Veeco Instruments's ISIN number?

  Veeco Instruments's international securities identification number is: US9224171002

• What is Veeco Instruments's CUSIP number?

  Veeco Instruments's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 922417100