MKS Instruments (MKSI)

• Market cap: $6.97B
• 1 day: 0.99%
• 5 days: -7.16%
• 1 month: -4.45%
• 3 months: -5.78%
• 6 months: -21.55%
• Year to date: 3.74%
• 1 year: 8.96%
• 5 years: -8.01%
• 10 years: 179.21%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Industrial Instruments for Measurement, Display, and Control

About: MKS Instruments Inc is engaged in providing instruments, subsystems, and process control systems used to measure, monitor, deliver, and control parameters of manufacturing processes. The company's product portfolio includes instruments, components, and systems required in manufacturing products such as flat panel displays, medical devices, and electronic materials, among others used in industrial technologies, semiconductors, life and health sciences, and research and defense markets. The company organizes itself into three reportable business segments: Vacuum Solutions, Photonics Solutions, and Materials Solutions. The Vacuum Solutions segment contributes the majority of the company's revenue, and the majority of its revenue is earned in the United States.

Employees: 10,200

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

890% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $208M | Put options by funds: $21M

65% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 178 | Existing positions reduced: 108

17% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 70 | Existing positions closed: 60

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 394 [Q2] → 404 (+10) [Q3]

4.1% less ownership

Funds ownership: 103.75% [Q2] → 99.65% (-4.1%) [Q3]

20% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $9.11B [Q2] → $7.28B (-$1.83B) [Q3]

50% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 6 [Q2] → 3 (-3) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $110 6% upside
• Avg. target: $137 32% upside
• High target: $150 45% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 75%
• neutral: 1 25%
• negative: 0 0%

Morgan Stanley Joseph Moore 63% 1-year accuracy 36 / 57 met price target	45% upside $150	Overweight Maintained	16 Dec 2024
JP Morgan Peter Peng 60% 1-year accuracy 6 / 10 met price target	40% upside $145	Overweight Initiated	13 Dec 2024
Benchmark Mark Miller 33% 1-year accuracy 13 / 39 met price target	37% upside $142	Buy Reiterated	18 Nov 2024
Wells Fargo Joseph Quatrochi 17% 1-year accuracy 3 / 18 met price target	6% upside $110	Equal-Weight Maintained	3 Oct 2024