VECOVeeco Instruments Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (5.4×), 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. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 4% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is VECO?
Veeco Instruments Inc. earns 2.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.9 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.7%
Operating margin · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 11% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 5.45×
Cash conversion · 1.74× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +11%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 5.0% |
| FY2021 | 9.7% |
| FY2022 | 9.3% |
| FY2023 | 10% |
| FY2024 | 9.3% |
| FY2025 | 5.4% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 38%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 2.7%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.4%
- Free cash flow margin
- 12%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 18%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $683M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $85M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $23M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 2.1%
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 #10 of 18 by RyuScore