ACLSAxcelis Technologies, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (1.0×), but margins compressing.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is ACLS?
Axcelis Technologies, Inc. earns 11% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.7 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 10%
Operating margin · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 11% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.96×
Cash conversion · 0.99× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −2.4%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 19% |
| FY2022 | 23% |
| FY2023 | 24% |
| FY2024 | 21% |
| FY2025 | 14% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 43%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 10%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.6%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 13%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $866M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $66M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 11%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Ranks #2 of 18 by RyuScore