The company beat the street’s expectations in its recent 4Q22 earnings announcement. Of more importance is management’s 2023 sales guidance, where they expect the company to see a25% sales rise in 2023,despite export curbs to China.
来源:ASML
The company has been growing its sales steadily since 2018 and the relatively rosy 2023 sales forecast is backed by astrong order backlog of about $45bn, which is about 2 years of sales.
Order backlog has been strong because key chip manufacturers such as TSMC, Intel, Samsung, etc are all dependent on ASML’s complex lithography machines to produce their advanced chips.