ASML's Falling Earnings Multiple Doesn't Make Sense

Dow Jones08-26

1136 GMT - ASML's falling market valuation relative to its earnings isn't justified, Bank of America analysts write. Shares in the Dutch maker of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment trade at a 27% discount to the historical average, despite the company's sector-leading earnings-per-share growth, the analysts say. The gap between ASML's share price performance and its growth forecasts is "difficult to justify," they say. The company will expand its gross margin by more than any of its peers. Moreover, memory chip-makers are increasingly using ASML's lithography machines, undermining bearish analysts' views that demand would fall, the analysts add. Shares are down 13% for the quarter, though they remain up more than 60% for the year. The stock falls 0.2%.

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