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ASM INTERNATIONAL Stock Bullish By 9% So Far Today

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(VIANEWS) - Shares of ASM INTERNATIONAL (AEX-Index: ASM.AS) jumped 9.62% to €384.45 at 14:07 EST on Thursday, after two successive sessions in a row of losses. AEX-Index is rising 0.42% to €757.27, after two successive sessions in a row of losses. This seems, up until now, a somewhat up trend exchanging session today.

ASM INTERNATIONAL's last close was €350.70, 5.89% under its 52-week high of €372.65.

About ASM INTERNATIONAL

ASM International NV, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, manufacture, marketing, and servicing of equipment and materials used to produce semiconductor devices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Its products include wafer processing deposition systems for single-wafer atomic layer deposition, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, epitaxy, silicon carbide, vertical furnace systems, and low pressure chemical vapor deposition and diffusion products, as well as provides spare parts and support services. The company also manufactures and sells equipment, which is used in wafer processing, encompassing the fabrication steps in which silicon wafers are layered with semiconductor devices. It offers its products to semiconductor manufacturers. The company was formerly known as Advanced Semiconductor Materials International NV. ASM International NV was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Almere, the Netherlands.

Earnings Per Share

As for profitability, ASM INTERNATIONAL has a trailing twelve months EPS of €12.7.

PE Ratio

ASM INTERNATIONAL has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 30.27. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing €30.27 for every euro of annual earnings.

The company's return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder's equity, for the twelve trailing months is 22.8%.

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