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Onto Innovation Soars 30% YTD: Will the Rally Last?
Onto Innovation's (NYSE: ONTO) shares have been performing well on the trading front, with a gain of 30.3% year to date compared with the S&P 500 composite's and sub-industry's growth of 14.1% and 28.5%, respectively.
Solid financial performance has been aiding the stock's trajectory. The stock has gained 12% since announcing second-quarter fiscal 2024 results on Aug 8.
ONTO outpaced estimates in each of the trailing four quarters, with the average surprise being 6.6%.
The stock is trading down 16.7% from its 52-week high of $238.13, indicating further upside potential.
Headquartered in Wilmington, MA, Onto Innovation specializes in the design, development, manufacture and support of metrology and inspection tools primarily for semiconductor device fabricators, silicon wafer manufacturers and advanced packaging manufacturers in the semiconductor space.
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Factors Driving Growth
Onto Innovation's performance is gaining from increasing demand for its Dragonfly inspection system. Its Dragonfly G3 platform integrates 2D and 3D technologies to identify yield-killing defects and compute features, which are important for advanced front-end and packaging technologies.
The system is witnessing strong adoption owing to higher demand for advanced packaging of AI computing devices.
In the last reported quarter, total revenues of $242.3 million beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2.9%. The top line expanded 27.1% year over year. The uptick was largely driven by the expansion of pilot lines for high-performance computing, which incorporates cutting-edge gate-all-around transistor architecture and high-bandwidth memory ...