Veeco Instruments Inc (VECO) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $21.45, with 0.46 million shares of worth about $9.93 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -20.76% during that period and on July 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.32%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 59.94M shares, out of which, 58.39M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.08% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.19%. Year-to-date (YTD), VECO shares are showing a performance of -54.28% which decreased to -19.96% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $16.92 but also hit the highest price of $49.25 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Veeco Instruments Inc shares is 749.10K. The stock is currently trading 3.20% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 6.51% for SMA50 and it goes to -13.04% lower than SMA200.
Veeco Instruments Inc (NASDAQ: VECO) currently have 59.94M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 99.14% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.29B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.12. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.16, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.06 in the same period. Its PEG reads 11.86 and has Quick Ratio of 2.92 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VECO, volatility over the week remained 3.85% while standing at 3.33% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -31.02% while it is estimated to increase by 27.36% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Citigroup on January 06, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $33 to it. Coverage by Citigroup stated Veeco Instruments Inc (VECO) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on July 15, 2024, suggesting a price target of $50 for the stock. On September 13, 2023, Citigroup Initiated their recommendations, while on September 01, 2023, Needham Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $35. Stock get an Equal weight rating from Barclays on January 23, 2023.
