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Veeco Instruments Inc.

Information TechnologyIndustrial Machinery
Ticker VECOPLAINVIEW, NYFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $13.90Diluted shares 64.9M

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) is a manufacturer of advanced semiconductor process equipment headquartered in Plainview, New York. The company operates through a comprehensive portfolio of ion beam, laser annealing, metal organic chemical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, advanced packaging… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$664.29MFY2025
−7.4% year over year
Last 12 mo $682.72M
5.38%FY2025
−4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 2.69%
$35.39MFY2025
−52.0% year over year
Last 12 mo $23.24M
4.00%FY2025
−9.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo 2.57%
Cash & financing
$69.49MFY2025
+8.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $99.83M
$53.29MFY2025
+16.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $85.17M
0.26FY2025
Was 0.36× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.25
60.6MFY2025
−1.6% year over year
Last 12 mo 64.9M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Veeco Instruments Inc. does

In the company’s own words

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) is a manufacturer of advanced semiconductor process equipment headquartered in Plainview, New York. The company operates through a comprehensive portfolio of ion beam, laser annealing, metal organic chemical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, advanced packaging lithography, single wafer wet processing, molecular beam epitaxy, and atomic layer deposition technologies. These systems address critical materials engineering challenges in the fabrication of advanced semiconductors, photonics devices, data storage components, and other specialized applications enabling artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, 5G communications, and emerging technologies.

Veeco serves four primary end-markets: Semiconductor, Compound Semiconductor, Data Storage, and Scientific & Other. The Semiconductor segment encompasses logic and memory applications, advanced packaging solutions, and extreme ultraviolet lithography mask production. The Compound Semiconductor market includes power electronics, photonics, radio frequency filters and amplifiers, and solar applications. Data Storage focuses on hard disk drive magnetic head manufacturing. The company's customer base comprises leading semiconductor integrated device manufacturers, foundries, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, and research institutions globally.

The company maintains a global workforce of 1,265 employees across 13 countries as of December 31, 2025, with significant operations in the United States, Asia-Pacific region, and Europe. Approximately 25 percent of employees work in research and development, 56 percent in operations and manufacturing, and 19 percent in sales, marketing, and administrative functions. The company operates research and development facilities in San Jose, California; Plainview, New York; Horsham, Pennsylvania; Somerset, New Jersey; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Waltham, Massachusetts.

Veeco maintains approximately 350 patents in the United States and other countries protecting its proprietary technologies. The company generates approximately 85 percent of revenue from non-U.S. customers and maintains comprehensive sales and service operations across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America regions. Parts, upgrades, service, and support represented approximately 25 percent of net sales in fiscal 2025. More information is available at www.veeco.com.

Company details
Sector
Information Technology
Industry (SIC)
Industrial Machinery
Headquarters
PLAINVIEW, NY
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
103145
SIC
3559

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-519.53M$-182.21M$155.11M$492.42M$829.74M2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Veeco Instruments Inc. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

316
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$2.49B
held by funds, at market
62.6%
of shares held by funds
1
bond issues held by funds

Superinvestors in Veeco Instruments Inc. · what they did last quarter

Polen CapitalINCREASED +301.7%
Polen Capital Management
<0.1%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Veeco Instruments Inc.’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.25%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.14%of fund net assets
VIP Mid Cap Portfolio
XFBRX · Variable Insurance Products Fund III
1.14%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.05%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Veeco Instruments Inc.’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 1 issues of Veeco Instruments Inc.’s debt, $47.29M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 2.88%, maturing 2029 to 2029.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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