After Falling on Earnings, Should You Buy the Dip in ASML Stock?

On the surface, ASML Holding's (NASDAQ: ASML) competitive advantages are clear. It's the world's only maker of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, which companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing rely on to make the world's most advanced chips.Typically, being the only producer of a high-tech machine is an advantageous position for a company, and it is for ASML, but it hasn't been enough to make the stock a winner recently. While the rest of the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor sectors have been soaring, ASML is down sharply from its peak last year.  After delivering an underwhelming earnings report on Wednesday, the stock fell again, losing 8.3%, and it's now off 32% from that record last year. Because its business involves selling very expensive machines, which can cost around $200 million, ASML's results can be volatile quarter to quarter. In the second quarter, the company reported revenue growth of 23% to 7.69 billion euros. This beat estimates at 7.52 billion euros, though that was down less than 1% in the quarter. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool