What is Northland Capmk’s Forecast for VECO Q1 Earnings?

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ:VECO) – Investment analysts at Northland Capmk issued their Q1 2026 EPS estimates for shares of Veeco Instruments in a research note issued to investors on Thursday, February 13th. Northland Capmk analyst G. Richard expects that the semiconductor company will earn $0.26 per share for the quarter. The consensus estimate for Veeco Instruments’ current full-year earnings is $1.12 per share. Northland Capmk also issued estimates for Veeco Instruments’ Q2 2026 earnings at $0.31 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $0.39 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $0.39 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $0.39 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $1.36 EPS.

Other equities research analysts have also issued reports about the stock. Benchmark cut their price objective on shares of Veeco Instruments from $38.00 to $31.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. Needham & Company LLC cut their price objective on shares of Veeco Instruments from $35.00 to $29.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. Citigroup cut their price objective on shares of Veeco Instruments from $33.00 to $30.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. StockNews.com lowered shares of Veeco Instruments from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Friday. Finally, Barclays lowered their target price on Veeco Instruments from $30.00 to $25.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $32.43.

Veeco Instruments Trading Up 1.6 %

Shares of VECO opened at $24.67 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 3.54 and a quick ratio of 2.41. Veeco Instruments has a 1 year low of $23.00 and a 1 year high of $49.25. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $26.60 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $29.83. The firm has a market cap of $1.40 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.27 and a beta of 1.13.

Veeco Instruments (NASDAQ:VECO) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The semiconductor company reported $0.26 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.40 by ($0.14). Veeco Instruments had a return on equity of 10.92% and a net margin of 11.34%.

Institutional Trading of Veeco Instruments

Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC lifted its position in Veeco Instruments by 165.0% in the third quarter. Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC now owns 370,917 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $12,288,000 after buying an additional 230,971 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its position in Veeco Instruments by 1.7% in the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 1,337,321 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $44,314,000 after buying an additional 22,850 shares during the last quarter. Raymond James & Associates lifted its position in Veeco Instruments by 42.6% in the third quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 175,073 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $5,800,000 after buying an additional 52,328 shares during the last quarter. PDT Partners LLC bought a new stake in Veeco Instruments in the third quarter worth $2,109,000. Finally, Synovus Financial Corp bought a new stake in Veeco Instruments in the third quarter worth $633,000. 98.46% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Insider Activity

In related news, CFO John P. Kiernan sold 2,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, January 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $27.63, for a total value of $69,075.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 75,142 shares in the company, valued at $2,076,173.46. This trade represents a 3.22 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Corporate insiders own 2.40% of the company’s stock.

About Veeco Instruments

Veeco Instruments Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports semiconductor and thin film process equipment primarily to make electronic devices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, China, Rest of the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company offers laser annealing, ion beam deposition and etch, metal organic chemical vapor deposition, single wafer wet processing and surface preparation, molecular beam epitaxy, advanced packaging lithography, atomic layer deposition, and other deposition systems.