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Raw inputs
Equipment
Foundry
Chip design
Software
AI demand
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Company details
Market cap
$21B
P/E ratio
65×
Div yield
0.3%
EPS (TTM)
$3.80
Profit margin
6%
Rev. growth
+6%
Revenue
$3.8B
Free cash flow
$410M
In plain English
MKS makes the critical subsystems hidden inside chipmaking machines — vacuum and gas-flow control, RF plasma power, and precision lasers/optics — and, since buying Atotech, the plating chemistry that builds circuit boards and advanced packages. It rarely sells to fabs directly; it sells to the equipment giants (Applied Materials, Lam, ASML) whose tools its parts make work. Its $3.6B revenue rides the semiconductor capex cycle, and it still carries the debt from the ~$5B Atotech deal.
In simple terms
What MKS Inc. (MKS Instruments) really sells
MKS makes the critical subsystems hidden inside chipmaking machines — vacuum and gas-flow control, RF plasma power, and precision lasers/optics — and, since buying Atotech, the plating chemistry that builds circuit boards and advanced packages. It rarely sells to fabs directly; it sells to the equipment giants (Applied Materials, Lam, ASML) whose tools its parts make work. Its $3.6B revenue rides the semiconductor capex cycle, and it still carries the debt from the ~$5B Atotech deal.
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