Nova Ltd NVMI
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What the company does
Nova Ltd is a large-cap company in the Technology sector (Semiconductor Equipment & Materials), with a market value of $11.2B, based in the USA.
It employs about 1,612 people and has been listed since Apr 07, 2000.
Nova Ltd. engages in the design, development, production, and sale of process control systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors in Taiwan, the United States, China, Korea, and internationally. The company's product portfolio includes a set of metrology platforms for dimensional, films, and materials and chemical metrology measurements for process control for various semiconductor manufacturing process steps, such as lithography, Etch, chemical mechanical planarization, deposition, electrochemical plating, and advanced packaging.
Cheap or expensive? priced in line with its group
Its price-to-earnings (P/E) is 44.1 versus 43.5 for the median of the Technology sector in our universe (65 companies) — priced in line with its group.
Revenue is growing 16% versus the same quarter last year.
On analysts' next-year forecasts the multiple drops to 25.8 — they expect higher earnings.
The average analyst price target is 532.00, 51% above the current price (their view, not ours).
The stock sits at 25% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).
The risks
- • The share count grew 8% in a year — each share owns a smaller slice of the company.
- • The stock is more volatile than average (beta 1.8) — big daily moves both ways.
- • The stock is 43% below its one-year high.
Strengths
- ✅ Profitable — 29 of every 100 dollars of revenue stays as profit.
- ✅ Generates free cash flow — profit becomes cash in the bank.
- ✅ More cash than debt.
- ✅ Most analysts rate it buy (6 vs 0).
- ✅ Revenue is growing 16% a year.
What changed this week
Over the past week the stock fell 10.9% (for comparison: S&P 500 +1.2%, sector ETF XLK -0.5%).
No notable news about the company was found in the past week.
What changed since last week
This is the first summary for this stock; from next week this section shows what changed.
A description of facts from the filings and the market — not investment advice or a recommendation. "Cheap" and "expensive" are always relative to the comparison group.