๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐๐: ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ ๐ค๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ & ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐
ASML's Q2 2026 financial results confirm our core thesis: the physical monopolies supplying the semiconductor industry command absolute pricing power, absorbing the capital expenditure of the global infrastructure build-out.
๐ญ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ค๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ
The numbers released today demonstrate strict execution and structural demand.
โข Total Net Sales: โฌ9.3 billion (beating guidance).
โข Gross Margin: 54.0%.
โข Net Income: โฌ2.9 billion.
The most telling metric is the โฌ2.8 billion generated from Installed Base Management, exceeding expectations by โฌ300 million. Chipmakers are urgently upgrading existing field systems to extract immediate productivity gains. They cannot wait for new factories to come online; they need capacity today.
๐ฎ. ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ & ๐๐
๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
Management increased full-year 2026 revenue guidance to โฌ43โโฌ45 billion and raised Q3 sales estimates to โฌ11โโฌ12 billion. ASML is formally adding 30% capacity to its low-NA EUV and DUV immersion lines for 2027, with investigations to add another 30% by 2028. This level of capacity expansion requires hard, long-term financial commitments from customers. It proves that the massive capital expenditures from cloud providers are translating directly into long-term order books for lithography equipment.
๐ฏ. ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ผ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐
You cannot manufacture an advanced logic or memory chip without $ASML (ASML Holding NV). It is the definitive chokepoint of the digital economy.
This mathematical certainty is why ASML is the largest holding in my portfolio, representing 11.88% of our total value with a +13.78% P/L.
We do not speculate on software winners. We own the supply chain bottlenecks. The AI processor architectures designed by $NVDA (NVIDIA Corporation) and the high-bandwidth memory produced by $MU (Micron Technology, Inc.) rely entirely on ASML's lithography systems.
By concentrating capital in these foundational monopolies, we successfully decouple from broad indices. The data from the recent tech rotation confirms this structural resilience:
โข $SPX500 (S&P 500) YTD: +๐ต.๐ฒ๐ฑ%
โข $NSDQ100 (Nasdaq 100) YTD: +๐ญ๐ฑ.๐ด๐ต%
โข ๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ผ ๐ฌ๐ง๐: +๐ญ๐ต.๐ฐ๐ฑ%
We hold the line. The digital industrial revolution requires physical infrastructure, and we own it. I invite you to review my open positions and historical data directly on my profile.
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