Fisher Asset Management LLC has recently announced that it has increased stake in ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ:ASML) by 1.89%. After grabbing 4.87 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 90496.0 shares of the Technology Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 1.21% having worth around $3.69 billion. Moreover, Capital Research & Management Co increased its share by 5747.0 to have a control over 3.9 million shares. And Fidelity Management & Research Co raised its holdings to 0.12 million shares by acquiring 3.26 million shares or 0.81% of the stake.
ASML Holding NV (ASML) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $847.31, with 7.75 million shares of worth about $6.57 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 23.28% during that period and On Wednesday, January 24 the price saw a gain of about 8.85%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 394.59M shares, out of which, 394.33M shares are available for trading.
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Washington Mutual Investors Fund, American Funds Growth Fund of Ame, and American Balanced Fund are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in ASML Holding NV Washington Mutual Investors Fund is currently holding 2.32 million shares of worth totaling $1.75 billion. The company recently came selling -0.38 million shares which brought its stake up to 0.57% of the company’s outstanding shares. American Balanced Fund, after selling 1.69 million shares, have now control over 0.42% of the stake in the company. It holds -0.52 million shares of worth $1.28 billion.
However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 864.59, or with a gain of 8.85%. Stock saw a price change of 18.96% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 12.19%. Year-to-date (YTD), ASML shares are showing a performance of 11.94% which increased to 25.34% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $563.99 but also hit the highest price of $778.67 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for ASML Holding NV shares is 902.94K. The stock is currently trading 15.51% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 18.87% for SMA50 and it goes to 26.03% higher than SMA200.
Fisher Asset Management LLC acquired 4.87 million shares of ASML Holding NV having value of about $3.69 billion. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by Fisher Asset Management LLC revealed that the firm now holds 90496.0 shares in the company valued at close to $76678165.76, or have control over 1.89% stake in the company. ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML) currently have 394.59M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 19.19% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 10.41% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 8.36% and — of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $334.34B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.47. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 39.41, while it has posted earnings per share of $21.50 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.82 and has Quick Ratio of 0.96 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.34. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ASML, volatility over the week remained 2.68% while standing at 1.73% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that ASML Holding NV (ASML) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $5.19 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $4.45 and it is $21.23 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $5.04 which is $5.46 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $4.93 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -4.51% while it is estimated to increase by 43.53% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 21.67% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 24.50% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
