Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (ACLS)

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $267 million in fiscal 2016 to $839 million in fiscal 2025, up 13.6% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 56% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 23 sales (4 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Axcelis Technologies, Inc. earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 28 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 24 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s standing among 13 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $839 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 21% by size; a net margin of 14.3% ranks in the top 27%; revenue growth of -3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 27% (its annual reports).

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Low, Russell (PRESIDENT AND CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-05-16, 3.5 years (top 46% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.3 years (bottom 29%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 29%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $145 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 10.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 27% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 12.8% of revenue (top 42%); a gross margin of 44.9% (top 50%); research spending of 13% of revenue (top 37%) (its annual report).

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3% a year over the last three filed years against 13.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 12% of its family); the newest year grew -17.6% (bottom 12%); research spending grew 11.6% a year (top 35%); capital spending grew 1.9% a year (top 21%) (its annual reports). Axcelis Technologies, Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $792 million (93%), Services at $47 million (6%), Other Products Systems Services and Royalties at $15 million (2%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $839 million in fiscal 2025 came in 21.6% below the $1.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 4% of its family); net income of $120 million against a prior three-year average of $210 million (bottom 35%); a net margin of 14.3% against 20.5% before (bottom 27%) (its annual reports).