Mks Instruments Inc

Industrials
Industrial Machinery/Components
www.mksinst.com

Earnings Score
Moat Score
Safety Score

Market Cap $7.67B
PE 256
Debt $4.81B
Cash $861.00M
EV $11.61B
FCF $432.00M

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	$30.00M
EBIT	$386.00M
ROE	1%
ROA	4%
FCF	$432.00M
Equity	$2.40B
Growth Stability	-447%
PE	255.53
PEG	-15.06
PB	3.2
P/FCF	17.74
P/S	2.16
Price/Cash	0.11
Debt/Equity	2.01
Debt/FCF	11.13
Net Margins	4%
Gross Margins	47%
Op. Margins	11%
Earnings CAGR	-1%
Sales Growth YoY	-4%
Sales Growth QoQ	1%
Sales CAGR	5%
FCF CAGR	10%
Equity CAGR	13%
Earnings Stability	0
Earnings Growth YoY	55%
Earnings Growth QoQ	182%
Earnings CAGR 5Y	-17%

Sales CAGR 5Y	16%
FCF CAGR 5Y	1%
Equity CAGR 5Y	5%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	9%
Sales CAGR 3Y	9%
FCF CAGR 3Y	-14%
Equity CAGR 3Y	-15%
Market Cap	$7.67B
Revenue	$3.54B
Dividend Yield	1%
Payout Ratio	197%
Assets	$9.02B
Total Debt	$4.81B
Cash	$861.00M
Shares Outstanding	66.89M
EV	11.61B
Earnings Score	6%
Moat Score	46%
Safety Score	40%
Final Score	31%
Working Capital	1.89B
Current Ratio	3.42
Gross Profit	$1.68B
Shares Growth 3y	9%
Equity Growth QoQ	7%
Equity Growth YoY	-3%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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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, semiconductor, life and health sciences, and research and defense markets. The company organizes itself into three reportable business segments: vacuum and analysis, light and motion, and equipment and solutions. The vacuum and analysis segment contributes to roughly half of the company's revenue, and the majority of its revenue is earned in the United States.

SEC Filings

Direct access to Mks Instruments Inc (MKSI) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2024
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2023
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2022
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31

Sector Comparison

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of Mks Instruments Inc compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

CAGR -1%

Stability 0%

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Mks Instruments Inc Discounted Cash Flow

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= $8.4B

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
fcf	$432M	$474M	$520M	$570M	$625M	$686M	$752M	$825M	$905M	$992M	$1.1B	$11B
DCF		$431M	$429M	$428M	$427M	$426M	$424M	$423M	$422M	$421M	$420M	$4.2B
Value	$8.4B

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	12/2014	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	TTM
Net Margins	15%	15%	8%	18%	19%	7%	15%	19%	9%	-51%	4%
ROA	-	13%	7%	20%	19%	6%	12%	15%	5%	-17%	4%
ROE	-	11%	8%	21%	21%	7%	15%	19%	7%	-74%	1%

Bad Net Margins (3.73%)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	12/2014	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	-	3.8	1.21	0.99	4.89	1.94	1.51	14.29	21.75	11.13
Debt over Equity	-	-	0.49	0.25	0.19	0.44	0.35	0.29	1.16	2.04	2.01
Growth Stability	-	-	-	100%	100%	50%	100%	100%	96%	-447%	-447%

Bad Debt/FCF ratio (11.13)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Bad Debt/Equity ratio (2.01)

The company is overleveraged and has a bad balance between equity and debt.

Bad Graham’s Stability (-447%)

The company has a bad stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a bad competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	12/2014	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	4%	59%	48%	8%	-8%	23%	27%	20%	2%	16%
Earnings YoY growth	-	6%	-14%	224%	16%	-64%	149%	57%	-40%	-653%	-17%
Equity YoY growth	-	7%	7%	28%	18%	8%	17%	22%	55%	-45%	5%
FCF YoY growth	-	42%	28%	101%	8%	-49%	137%	29%	-34%	-36%	1%