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Semiconductor Equipment & Materials · United States
Snapshot 2026-09-28 · Latest financial period 2026-06-30 · Yahoo Finance. Quotes may be delayed; reporting periods can differ.
Next earnings: 2026-11-04 (provider estimate, not issuer-confirmed).
ACM Research, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells capital equipment in Mainland China and internationally. It also develops, manufactures, and sells a range of packaging tools to wafer assembly and packaging customers. The company provides wet cleaning equipment for front end production processes; electrochemical plating, furnace, PECVD, and track platforms; Space Alternated Phase Shift, technology for flat and wafer surfaces; timely energized bubble oscillation, technology for patterned wafer surfaces at advanced process nodes; and Tahoe technology; and semi-critical cleaning tools. It also offers advanced packaging equipment, such as coaters, developers, photoresist strippers, scrubbers, wet etchers and copper-plating equipment; and advanced packaging products include: Ultra ECP ap, which delivers a uniform metal layer to finished wafers prior to packaging; Ultra C Developer, which applies liquid developer to selected parts of photoresist to resolve an image; Ultra C PR Megasonic-Assisted Stripper, which removes photoresist; Ultra C Scrubber, which scrubs and cleans wafers; Ultra C Thin Wafer Scrubber, which addresses a sub-market of cleaning very thin wafers for certain Asian assembly factories; and Ultra C Wet Etcher, which etches silicon wafers and copper and titanium interconnects. In addition, the company provides ECP technology for advanced metal plating; Ultra fn Furnace, a dry processing tool; Ultra Pmax PECVD tools, a proprietary designed chamber, gas distribution unit, and chuck; and Ultra Track, a 300mm process tool that delivers uniform air downflow, fast robot handling and configurable software to address specific customer requirements. It markets and sells its products under the SAPS, TEBO, ULTRA C, ULTRA Fn, Ultra ECP, Ultra ECP map, and Ultra ECP ap trademarks through direct sales force and third-party representatives. ACM Research, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
Company websiteQ2 2026
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| Metric | ACMRACM Research, Inc.Snapshot 2026-09-28Financial period: 2026-06-30 | KLICKulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.Snapshot 2026-09-28Financial period: 2026-07-04 | CAMTCamtek Ltd.Snapshot 2026-09-28Financial period: 2026-03-31 | Peer medianSimilar-size peers only |
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| Market capMarket value, converted to USD | US$5.17B | US$4.67B | US$6.57B | US$5.62Bn=2 |
| Forward P/EProvider forward earnings estimate | 25.66x | 15.13x | 29.40x | 22.26xn=2 |
| EV / EBITDAEnterprise value / trailing EBITDA | 30.32x | 22.37x | 50.32x | 36.34xn=2 |
| Revenue growthLatest quarter vs prior-year quarter | 36.0% | 122.6% | 2.5% | 62.5%n=2 |
| Operating marginLatest reported quarter | 17.0% | 20.7% | 22.4% | 21.5%n=2 |
| Free cash flow yieldTrailing cash flow / market cap | -3.6% | 1.2% | — | — |
| Net debt / EBITDANet debt / trailing EBITDA | -6.83x | -2.49x | -1.32x | -1.91xn=2 |
| Debt / equityTotal debt / positive book equity | 0.15x | 0.04x | 0.71x | 0.38xn=2 |
| Trailing P/ETrailing twelve-month earnings | 35.02x | 40.77x | 192.86x | 116.82xn=2 |
| Price / bookPrice / positive book equity per share | 2.78x | 5.12x | 10.46x | 7.79xn=2 |
| EV / salesEnterprise value / trailing revenue | 4.66x | 4.52x | 13.97x | 9.24xn=2 |
| Earnings growthLatest quarter vs prior-year quarter | 180.6% | — | -10.0% | — |
| Gross marginTrailing twelve months | 43.8% | 52.6% | 51.0% | 51.8%n=2 |
| Net marginTrailing twelve months | 14.5% | 12.2% | 9.6% | 10.9%n=2 |
| Return on equityProvider trailing return; positive equity only | 11.6% | 13.2% | 7.6% | 10.4%n=2 |
| Free cash flow marginTrailing free cash flow / revenue | -18.0% | 6.0% | — | — |
| Dividend yieldIndicated annual dividend / price | — | 0.9% | — | — |
| Earnings payoutProvider trailing dividend payout | 0.0% | 37.5% | 0.0% | 18.8%n=2 |
| Current ratioCurrent assets / current liabilities | 3.66x | 3.44x | 8.35x | 5.90xn=2 |
| BetaProvider historical market sensitivity | 1.95 | 1.62 | 1.59 | 1.60n=2 |
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