Sravan Kundojjala @SKundojjala Nov 11, 2022 ASML Investor Day 2022: Reconfirms April guidance on increasing the capac...
ASML’s Investor Day reiterated the company’s multi-year plan to scale EUV/DUV tool capacity through 2025–2026 and to bring High-NA EUV capacity online through 2027–2028, while lifting ASML’s long-term semiconductor market CAGR estimate to 9% (2020–2030). This reinforces a structural, multi-year semiconductor capacity build that supports ASML’s equipment roadmap and a higher long-run growth backdrop for semiconductor capital intensity.
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Primary: ASML — direct beneficiary of confirmed EUV/DUV and High-NA capacity roadmap. Secondary: SMH and SOXX — broad semiconductor ETFs expected to benefit from a structurally higher semiconductor market CAGR and sustained capex intensity.
ASML Holding N.V.
Directly referenced company; guidance reaffirmation on tool capacity and High-NA roadmap is a durable positive for long-horizon expectations.
SMH is the VanEck Semiconductor ETF, an exchange-traded fund providing exposure to U.S.-listed companies in the semiconductor industry.
Broad semi exposure; benefits indirectly from improved long-term growth narrative and capex/technology roadmap continuity.
Similar broad semi basket implication; less direct than ASML but aligned with a higher long-term CAGR claim.
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ASML Investor Day 2022: company reaffirmed prior guidance to increase EUV/DUV tool capacity through 2025–2026, to expand High-NA EUV capacity through 2027–2028, and raised its long-term semiconductor market CAGR estimate to 9% for 2020–2030. The event provides a long-horizon demand and capacity signal for leading-edge lithography and semiconductor capex.
Post claims Intel delivered a “seventh consecutive beat” in 2Q26, says semiconductor demand remains far ahead of supply, and that Intel is finally raising capex (2026 capex from $18B to >$20B; 2027 “significantly above”). Also asserts ASML EUV output will grow ~30% for the next two years. Actionability: moderate—clear capex and supply/demand assertions with obvious ticker linkages (INTC, ASML), but lacks detail on margins/FCF impact, timing, and product mix.
Post highlights STMicro (STM) 2Q26 results and guidance: accelerating recovery and AI-datacenter driven upside, with datacenter targets “2x vs 1Q26,” improving revenue and expanding gross margin, plus upbeat next-quarter guide. Actionable primarily as a near-term fundamental momentum/earnings-guide strength signal for STM.
Post summarizes Texas Instruments (TXN) 2Q26 results and 3Q26 guide, highlighting above-seasonal revenue growth, margin expansion, and a favorable inventory/capacity position that could enable share gains as growth broadens from industrial/data center into automotive.
Post summarizes TSMC 2Q25 results: revenue beat high-end of guidance despite FX, gross margin near high-end of guidance, operating margin above high-end, and CapEx up +51% YoY. This is directly actionable for TSMC and second-order for semiconductor capex beneficiaries, though the post itself is primarily about TSMC’s fundamentals vs guidance (not an explicit trade call).
Post references an interview/podcast with Dr. Morris Chang about TSMC history: Apple allegedly offered favorable gross margin terms and Apple’s 20nm choice reportedly delayed 16nm due to TSMC’s R&D constraints at the time. This is largely historical/color rather than a current catalyst; modestly actionable only as supporting evidence for TSMC pricing power and strategic leverage with key customers.
Post argues TSMC has a structural manufacturing advantage: very high litho/etch/deposition tool “commonality” (repurposability) across multiple node migrations (N20→N16→N10→N7→N5→N3), improving from ~70%+ in early 2010s to ~95% for recent transitions. Implication: lower incremental capex/transition cost and faster ramps vs peers, supporting stronger margins/ROIC and resilience through process transitions.
Post argues TSMC has industry-lowest COGS per wafer (<$500) and an 'unbeatable cost structure' versus GlobalFoundries, which allegedly has the highest COGS per wafer due to legacy depreciation—implying a structural margin/price competitiveness advantage for TSMC and disadvantage for GFS.
Post relays Intel management commentary (UBS conference) that 18A is on track for 2H25 production; 18A may be “overkill” for mobile, while 14A expands Intel’s addressable market; and early 18A wafer volume will be predominantly for Intel’s own products for the first 2–3 years. Actionable mainly as a medium/long-horizon foundry execution signal for INTC, with an implied caution that external foundry ramp may be slower than bulls expect.
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Author: Sravan Kundojjala (@SKundojjala). The post synthesizes ASML’s Investor Day disclosures and places them in the context of multi-year semiconductor demand and capex implications.
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Consider ASML as a primary exposure to the multi-year lithography capacity build; consider broad semiconductor ETFs (SMH, SOXX) for diversified exposure to a structurally higher semiconductor growth and capex cycle. This is a long-horizon thematic signal rather than a near-term trade call.