Veeco Instruments Inc. (VECO): Price and Financial Metrics

VECO POWR Grades

• VECO scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 95.92% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for VECO is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• VECO ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 28th percentile.

VECO Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 57.27, Veeco Instruments Inc P/E ratio is greater than that of about 87.31% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -19.9%, Veeco Instruments Inc's debt growth rate surpasses only 19.75% of about US stocks.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, Veeco Instruments Inc is reporting a growth rate of 232.04%; that's higher than 91.09% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Veeco Instruments Inc are CASA, ALRM, ACMR, NVMI, and RDUS.
• Visit VECO's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.veeco.com.

VECO Valuation Summary

• VECO's price/sales ratio is 2.2; this is 59.63% lower than that of the median Technology stock.
• Over the past 243 months, VECO's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 24.8.
• VECO's price/earnings ratio has moved up 86.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VECO.

VECO Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -113.98%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 271.02%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 91.23%.

Over the past 70 months, VECO's revenue has gone up $126,568,000.

The table below shows VECO's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	583.277	67.742	26.038
2021-09-30	569.251	66.079	17.734
2021-06-30	531.083	46.2	9.321
2021-03-31	483.376	55.902	-5.329
2020-12-31	454.163	43.021	-8.391
2020-09-30	428.419	43.18	-41.16

VECO's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• VECO has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 33.62% of graded US stocks.
• VECO's asset turnover comes in at 0.573 -- ranking 73rd of 104 Machinery stocks.
• AQUA, GHM, and BKR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with VECO.

The table below shows VECO's key quality metrics over time.