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$ONTO — SELL 📊
Onto Innovation Inc.
🎯 Q2 2026 | Rev $0B | EPS $1.42 vs $1.42 ➖
💡 The market appears to price in ultra-high growth (>25% revenue CAGR) and margin expansion, but the recent quarter merely met consensus (EPS $1.42, revenue $291.9M); our variant view is that growth is decelerating into a cyclical slowdown, and analyst estimates will be revised lower, compressing the multiple.
📉 Reward/Risk: 3.0:1
🏢 Business Quality: 7/10 - Strong competitive position in semiconductor metrology/inspection, but highly cyclical and exposed to wafer fabrication capex swings.
📊 Valuation: rich - P/E 55x, EV/Sales 85x (using provided $100B market cap; even if market cap is actually ~$15B, P/E remains 55x), versus sector peers at 20–30x...
🔮 Catalyst: Post-earnings analyst estimate cuts and multiple compression
📊 Our read: SELL. Full analysis →
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