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Nisha Gopalan
Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 4:05 AM 1 min read
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ASML Holding (ASML) shares fell successful premarket trading Wednesday aft the Dutch shaper of semiconductor-producing machinery reported worse-than-expected first-quarter nett bookings and a brushed current-quarter income outlook.
The firm's Q1 nett bookings came to 3.94 cardinal euros, beneath the 4.84 cardinal euros expected by analysts polled by Visible Alpha. Sales of EUR7.74 cardinal came successful a tick beneath estimates but were successful enactment with the company's sales forecast made past quarter. Diluted net per stock (EPS) of EUR6.00 topped projections.
ASML again affirmed 2025 income expectations of EUR30 cardinal to EUR35 billion, but its second-quarter income outlook of EUR7.2 cardinal to EUR7.7 cardinal was beneath analysts' expectations of EUR7.77 billion.
"Our conversations truthful acold with customers enactment our anticipation that 2025 and 2026 volition beryllium maturation years," CEO Christophe Fouquet said. "However, the caller tariff announcements person accrued uncertainty successful the macro situation and the concern volition stay dynamic for a while."
Shares of ASML, whose utmost ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines are needed to marque the astir precocious artificial quality (AI) chips, were astir 5% little aboriginal Wednesday. They entered the time down astir 28% implicit the past 12 months.
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