One company, one machine, and the whole industry's timeline
It traded at 1747.95, +3.05% today. A supplier with no substitute is a wonderful business and a concentrated risk at the same time.
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It traded at 1747.95, +3.05% today. A supplier with no substitute is a wonderful business and a concentrated risk at the same time.
Memory traded at 1014.74, +4.46% today. Every cycle, the story is that this time capacity discipline holds. It has not yet.
The machines are so expensive that a handful of orders moves a whole quarter. The shares are valued as if the quarters were smooth.
An equipment supplier does not need to forecast chip demand. Its customers do that for it, in public, every time they set a capital budget.
The regional order mix I track, and the rules that could move it.