On July 9, Onto Innovation rose 7.89% in regular trading, trading at $322.465/share, with turnover of $35.37 million. The rally was driven by Morgan Stanley's upgraded wafer fab equipment (WFE) market projections and the firm's specific endorsement of Onto Innovation's earnings potential.
Morgan Stanley raised its WFE market forecast to $202 billion from $191 billion for 2027, and to $227 billion from $215 billion for 2028, noting that market growth expectations have risen significantly with estimates recently reaching approximately $250 billion. The firm specifically named Onto Innovation and MKS as presenting substantial upside from underappreciated 2027 earnings. The upgrade is underpinned by surging demand for advanced metrology equipment driven by HBM and stacked memory production lines, positioning Onto Innovation as a direct beneficiary of the AI compute capacity expansion wave.
Within the Semiconductor Equipment sector, the broader group rallied in tandem. Among individual stocks, Applied Materials up 10.01%, Lam Research up 10.88%, ASML up 4.34%, KLA-Tencor up 9.91%, Teradyne up 8.22%.
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