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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Reminder: The Chip Biz is Cyclical

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The boom is on for chip buyers and sellers, but demand is lighter further up the supply chain. And United results showing the skies look friendly for airline stocks.  (00:21) Tim Beyers and Dylan Lewis discuss: - Why ASML’s earnings show a slowdown in investment in chip manufacturing. - United Airlines’ strong quarterly results, and how the airline is handling fleet issues caused by Boeing. - What to watch from enterprise software companies as they report later in earnings season. (15:19) Deidre Woollard chats up with Steven Jacobs, the president of online commercial real estate exchange Ten-X, about who is actually buying office buildings right now? Companies discussed: ASML, UAL, BA Host: Dylan Lewis Guests: Tim Beyers, Deidre Woollard, Steven Jacobs Engineers: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The skies continue to be friendly for airline stocks.

0:07.6

Motley full analyst Tim Byers.

0:24.0

Tim, thanks for joining me.

0:26.0

Thanks, Dylan.

0:27.0

Fully caffeinated, ready to go.

0:29.0

Love it, because we've got a lot to hit today.

0:31.0

We're going to be checking in on travel trends and

0:33.6

Europe's largest company and why don't we start there? Europe's largest company.

0:37.4

We have some fresh results from Dutch firm ASML. They are Tim essentially the

0:42.2

global supplier of the machines that the chip makers need to print designs onto chips and it is very well documented that the chip business is doing very well right now, but upstream on the machine supplier side,

0:55.6

it seems like results are a little bit lumpier.

0:58.4

They are lumpier and there's an open question about this, you know, with overall revenue down 22% year over year for these, you know, ultraviolet, you know, equipment, ultraviolet lithography, which is what extreme ultraviolet lithography, to be specific.

1:16.7

This is an EUV device.

1:19.2

They do lots of different things that are involved in the very basics and the very beginnings of

1:25.0

chipmaking literally etching the circuits onto silicon. That's what an

1:30.0

EUV machine will do at the microscopic level here.

1:34.3

So these are very expensive machines.

1:35.8

They only sell either the dozens or hundreds of them

1:39.2

in a particular quarter.

1:41.2

This particular quarter, I believe they sold 66, which is down from a little

1:45.4

over 110, you know, a year ago.

1:49.0

So yeah, not as much demand at the moment here

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