$12.54 0.29 (+2.37%)
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Ultratech, Inc. (UTEK)

CAPS Rating: 1 out of 5

The Company develops, manufactures and markets photolithography and laser processing equipment designed to reduce the cost of ownership for manufacturers of integrated circuits.

Current Price $12.54 Mkt Cap $297.01M
Open $12.44 P/E Ratio 136.11
Prev. Close $12.25 Div. (Yield) N/A (N/A)
Daily Range $12.44 - $12.84 Volume 52,248
52-Wk Range $9.74 - $16.00 Avg. Daily Vol. 0

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NetscribeTech (57.36)
Submitted January 12, 2007

The major impediment Ultratech, Inc (UTEK) suffers from is operating in niche markets that are susceptible to entry by firms with much greater scale and resources. Otherwise, Ultratech envisages an upside potential, with hefty cash and sound… More

goldminingXpert (99.98)
Submitted March 13, 2008

Connected to Xethanol... a dead penny stock. Cuban shorted both of them... this one is dead too soon enough.

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Member Avatar drborst (53.69) Submitted: 12/22/2009 6:48:30 PM : Underperform Start Price: $14.58 UTEK Score: +10.41

This is part of a tech run up that lost site of valuations.
UTEK has two products. Advanced Packaging Lithography and Laser Spike Anneal. Most outperform picks likely look at LSA as the growth side and packaging as vunerable to competition. But I don't think that is the case.

Laser Spike Anneal is a promising technology, but the major semiconductor manufacturers are likely worried about buying critical technology from such a small company, and other larger competitors will likely fill this niche with flash anneal or rapid themal processing before it takes off for UTEK. I think their best bet would be to spin this off and sell it to a Novellus or AMAT. A larger company would find this more valuable.

The Packaging segment is really low end lithography. The obvious competition would be from high end litho vendors like Nikon or ASML. But adapting the high end technology to the lost cost and relatively low volume market segment where UTEK plays is harder than it seems. At best they could sell a few tools and lower their overall margins in the process, at worst, they could invest in the segment and find out its harder than they anticipated and get no return at all.

Packaging is the growth segment for UTEK, but management doesn't realize it. The big semiconductor manafacturers are 5-7 years away from 450 mm wafers, the cost reduction from the wafer size doesn't effect die level tasks like packaging and test, once they notice this, they will start investing in these two segments and UTEK will be well placed to benifit. I suspect someone like AMAT will realize this and buy them when the price is right, and it isn't right today.

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Member Avatar Nostradamuss (27.60) Submitted: 10/20/2009 11:35:45 PM : Underperform Start Price: $14.55 UTEK Score: +12.84

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Member Avatar nrbonner (81.25) Submitted: 2/28/2009 2:30:08 PM : Underperform Start Price: $10.56 UTEK Score: +32.71

Good grief how can this maintain their lofty valuations? Very little upside but huge downside potential.

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onefunsob (30.00) Score: +62.63

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burnzem 54.25 3/12/2008 Outperform 3Y $9.33 +33.65% -15.77% +49.42
moneyfirst 84.43 3/12/2008 Outperform 3W $9.33 +33.65% -15.67% +49.33
TotoMMB 99.72 2/5/2008 Outperform 3Y $9.52 +30.99% -17.62% +48.61
patman1770 30.43 3/27/2008 Outperform NS $9.61 +29.76% -16.97% +46.73
wardogg14 < 20 3/13/2008 Outperform NS $9.49 +31.40% -15.29% +46.69
CPOUCH1394 67.93 3/25/2008 Outperform 3Y $9.65 +29.22% -17.37% +46.59
glittergates < 20 3/18/2008 Outperform 1Y $9.50 +31.26% -14.27% +45.53
yamarx < 20 1/17/2008 Outperform 5Y $10.04 +24.20% -16.16% +40.36
alannalilly 94.57 4/7/2008 Outperform NS $10.61 +17.53% -19.20% +36.73
travelhistory < 20 4/4/2008 Outperform 5Y $10.66 +16.98% -18.94% +35.92

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TrackDADavidson 68.24 10/7/2009 Outperform NS $14.45 -13.70% +2.07% -15.77
TrackJPMorgan 84.78 7/25/2008 Underperform NS $14.31 -12.86% -11.89% +0.97
TrackBreanMurray 86.50 4/18/2008 Outperform NS $12.70 -1.81% -19.55% +17.74
TrackDADavidson 68.24 1/30/2008 Outperform NS $11.25 +26.84% -8.14% +34.98 7/7/2008 @ $14.27

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