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

VECO POWR Grades

• VECO scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 88.9% of US stocks.
• VECO's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• VECO's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 10.29% of US stocks).

VECO Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 22.4% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -15.6%, VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC's debt growth rate surpasses just 18.3% of about US stocks.
• VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 11.18%, greater than the shareholder yield of 85.46% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC are RKLY, NVMI, ALRM, ACMR, and AMPH.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Technology stock, VECO's price/earnings ratio is 11.48% lower, now standing at 21.6.
• VECO's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VECO.

VECO Growth Metrics

Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -21.27%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 270.14%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 160.68%.

Over the past 33 months, VECO's revenue has gone up $225,961,000.

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
2022-09-30	645.31	92.467	46.229
2022-06-30	623.643	75.182	40.181
2022-03-31	605.988	82.045	36.874
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

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.