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ASML Holding NV
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
Strong business, valuation above the sector
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3 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Strong fundamentals
Profitability
4/4
Debt & liquidity
2/3
Efficiency
2/2
Capital efficiency at ASML Holding NV runs well ahead of the sector: ROIC reaches 94.9%, some +379% above the sector median, and ROE of 50.5% sits +57% above its own median. The balance sheet is clean — Debt/EBITDA of 0.2× against a sector median of 0.9×, a gap of -76% — and the F-Score of 8/9 confirms that the underlying fundamentals are in good order. Growth, however, runs closer to the middle of the pack: revenue grew 15.9% year over year against a sector median of 11.8%, and EPS growth of 28.7% trails the sector median of 31.1% by -7%. The market prices that quality at a P/E of 65.8×, which is +57% above the sector median of 41.9×; consensus models further earnings expansion, though the realized growth record is not available to test whether that optimism is grounded.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple | 8/9 | 171% | +6% |
The market prices in earnings growth; analyst sentiment is steady; has not always beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
When ASML reports on 2026-10-14, track revenue year-over-year growth and gross margin — the current P/E of 41.9× (57% above the sector median) leaves little room for a miss. Also check whether ROIC holds near its current 19.8%, which sits 4.8× above the sector median.
ASML's business depends on a narrow set of advanced lithography systems subject to export licensing. In the annual report's risk factors and management's discussion, look for disclosures on geographic revenue concentration and any changes to equipment export restrictions that could pressure the 0.92× Debt/EBITDA position.
Pick two or three companies from the same-sector table in section 06 and line up one metric — P/B or ROE are useful starting points given ASML's P/B of 10.0× and ROE of 32.1%. The table is alphabetical with no ranking, so the selection and weighting are yours to make.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 7 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 32% |
| ACN | Accenture | 4/9 | 26% | +7% | 15% |
| ADBE | Adobe | 7/9 | 55% | +11% | 37% |
| AMAT | Applied Materials | 6/9 | 36% | +4% | 29% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 7/9 | 7% | +34% | 11% |
| ASML | ASML Holding NV | 8/9 | 51% | +16% | 35% |
| AVGO | Broadcom | 7/9 | 43% | +24% | 40% |
| CRM | Salesforce | 7/9 | 12% | +10% | 20% |
| CSCO | Cisco | 8/9 | 22% | +5% | 21% |
| IBM | IBM | 6/9 | 35% | +8% | — |
| INTC | Intel | 6/9 | -0% | -0% | -4% |
| INTU | Intuit | 8/9 | 20% | +16% | 26% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | 6/9 | 34% | +18% | 47% |
| NOW | ServiceNow | 4/9 | 15% | +21% | 14% |
| NVDA | NVIDIA | 3/9 | 101% | +65% | 60% |
| ORCL | Oracle | 5/9 | 54% | +17% | 31% |
| TXN | Texas Instruments | 7/9 | 30% | +13% | 34% |
A sample of 17 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.