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Ultratech Inc's Management Presents JPMorgan Global TMT Conference Call Transcript
Thu, May 16
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Thu, Apr 18
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Ultratech Announces First Quarter 2013 Results

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Ultratech to Release First Quarter 2013 Results on April 18, 2013

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Ultratech, Inc. Announces Participation in March Conferences

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Ultratech's CEO Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jan 31 • 1 Comment
Ultratech Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2012 Results

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Ultratech to Present at Stifel Nicolaus Technology Conference on February 5

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Ultratech to Release Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2012 Results on January 31, 2013

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Ultratech to Present at Needham Growth Conference on January 16

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Ultratech Inc's Management Presents JPMorgan Global TMT Conference Call Transcript
Thu, May 16
Ultratech's CEO Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Apr 18
Ultratech's CEO Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jan 31 • 1 Comment
Ultratech, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Feb 4, 2010
Ultratech Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
Ultratech, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
Ultratech, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
Ultratech Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, Aug 25, 2008
Ultratech, Inc. F1Q08 (Qtr End 03/29/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Sun, Apr 20, 2008
Ultratech Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, Feb 4, 2008
Ultratech Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Oct 18, 2007

Ultratech, Inc. Announces Participation in May Conferences

Business Wire (May 6, 2013)
Ultratech Receives 2012 Supplier Excellence Award From Texas Instruments

PR Newswire (Apr 18, 2013)
Ultratech Announces First Quarter 2013 Results

Business Wire (Apr 18, 2013)
Ultratech to Release First Quarter 2013 Results on April 18, 2013

Business Wire (Apr 9, 2013)
Ultratech, Inc. Announces Participation in March Conferences

Business Wire (Mar 6, 2013)
Ultratech Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2012 Results

Business Wire (Jan 31, 2013)
Ultratech to Present at Stifel Nicolaus Technology Conference on February 5

Business Wire (Jan 24, 2013)
Ultratech to Release Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2012 Results on January 31, 2013

Business Wire (Jan 16, 2013)
Ultratech to Present at Needham Growth Conference on January 16

Business Wire (Jan 3, 2013)
Ultratech Acquires Assets Of Cambridge Nanotech, Inc.; Expands Nanotechnology And IP Portfolio With Atomic Layer Deposition

PR Newswire (Dec 19, 2012)
Ultratech Announces Participation in Midtown CAP Summit Investor Conference on December 11

Business Wire (Nov 28, 2012)
Ultratech to Present at Credit Suisse 2012 Technology Conference on November 29

Business Wire (Nov 19, 2012)
Ultratech Introduces Superfast 3G CGS Inspection System For Use In Front-, Middle- And Back-end-of-line Production

PR Newswire (Oct 23, 2012)
Ultratech Introduces New Laser Spike Anneal Products With Novel, Proprietary Dual-Beam Technology

PR Newswire (Oct 22, 2012)
Ultratech Introduces New Laser Spike Anneal Platform With Ambient Control

PR Newswire (Oct 22, 2012)
Ultratech Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results

Business Wire (Oct 18, 2012)
Ultratech to Host Financial Analyst Day on October 23, 2012

Business Wire (Oct 8, 2012)
Ultratech to Release Third Quarter 2012 Results on October 18, 2012

Business Wire (Oct 4, 2012)
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Company Description

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Sector: Technology

Industry: Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

Country: United States

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Thursday, April 25, 11:57 AM Lam Research (LRCX +6.2%) makes new 52-week highs after beating FQ3 estimates, issuing strong guidance, and announcing a $250M buyback plan (good for buying 3.4% of shares at current levels). On its earnings call, Lam guided for FQ4 revenue of $945M-$1.005B and EPS of of $0.63-$0.77, above a consensus of $914.1M and $0.61. Foundry clients (such as big-spending TSMC) made up 56% of shipments, up from 51% in FQ2, and memory makers 31%, up from 20%. Chip equipment peers are up, taking heart in the numbers posted by Lam (and to a lesser extent) Mattson (MTSN +5.8% - earnings). AMAT +3.6%. KLAC +2.2%. ASML +2.5% (previous). CYMI +2%. RTEC +2.4%. UTEK +1.4%. Comment! [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
Thursday, April 18, 8:38 AM Ultratech (UTEK): Q1 EPS of $0.48 misses by $0.01. Revenue of $60.6M misses by $4.69M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech]
Thursday, March 28, 8:40 PM Just 3 chip manufacturers - Intel (INTC), Samsung (SSNLF.PK), and TSMC (TSM) - will account for 57% of 2013 chip industry capex, estimates IC insights. That figure, up from 2012's 54%, drives home the extent chip equipment maker fortunes now hinge on the spending plans of a handful of firms, and also the big lead the industry giants have opened up in economies of scale relative to smaller rivals. IC Insights expects total industry capex to grow 2% this year to $59.8B, after falling 11% last year. 1 Comment [Tech]
Thursday, January 17, 4:27 PM A little more on Intel: 2013 capex budget of $12.5B-$13.5B established, up from 2012's $11B (good for chip equipment makers). $1B in shares repurchased, boosting Q4 EPS. Company expects gross margin (GAAP) to be 56%-60% in Q1 and 60% (plus or minus a few %) in 2013. Opex expected to increase 4% in 2013, headcount expected to be flat after rising by 5K in 2012. 2012 software sales totaled $2.4B (+27% Y/Y, boosted by full year of McAfee results). Comment! [Tech, Earnings]
Thursday, January 17, 12:12 PM Down initially following its Q4 report, ASML (ASML +8%) is now rallying strongly. Though revenue was below estimates, EPS was above, and the lithography giant guided for 2013 sales to be "at a similar level to that of 2012" thanks to a 2H demand pickup. That's going over well in light of bleak industry forecasts. ASML sees investments in advanced 14-20nm processes driving demand, though it expects the memory industry to "continue investing at a minimum level" (a positive for SNDK and MU). CYMI +6.2%. KLAC +6.5%. LRCX +3.3%. AMAT +1.8%. (PR) Comment! [Tech, On the Move, Earnings]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 2:32 PM Gartner now sees chip equipment sales falling 17.4% in 2012 and 9.7% in 2013. That's easily worse than prior forecasts of -13.3% and -0.8%, and is blamed on soft memory capex (perhaps a positive for MU and SNDK) and slow improvement in capacity utilization rates, which are expected to be under 80% at year's end. Applied Materials (AMAT) has already forecast a 5%-15% drop in industry sales in 2013, and TSMC recently provided slightly disappointing capex guidance. 1 Comment [Tech]
Monday, December 17, 2012, 12:00 PM TSMC (TSM) is setting a 2013 capex budget of $9B, below prior reports of $10B and arguably a negative for chip equipment makers who have been hoping TSMC's spending would offset weakness at Samsung and perhaps also Intel. But then again, shares of equipment vendors have already priced in a fair amount of bad news. Also, TSMC is forecasting 2013 revenue growth of 15%-20%, well above a 9.9% consensus, as its mobile exposure allows it to soundly outpace chip industry growth. Comment! [Tech, Earnings]
Friday, November 16, 2012, 12:36 PM Applied Materials (AMAT -1%) now expects the chip equipment industry to contract by 5%-15% in 2013, a forecast easily worse than a recent Gartner estimate for a 0.8% increase. Applied, which offered soft FQ1 guidance yesterday to go with its FQ4 beat, mentioned on its earnings call it expects chip wafer starts and utilization rates to drop again in FQ1. Its outlook for solar equipment demand is predictably bleak, though the company is a little more optimistic about a rebound in LCD equipment orders. 1 Comment [Tech, On the Move]
Monday, November 5, 2012, 11:10 AM In another piece of bad news for the chip equipment industry, a Korean paper reports Samsung (SSNLF.PK) may delay the construction of a new non-memory chip plant, citing macro issues. The plant saw construction begin in June, and is currently scheduled to go online in early 2014 - a final decision on the delay is reportedly due next week. Chip equipment stocks were dinged in September on a report Samsung plans to cut its chip capex in half next year. Comment! [Tech]
Thursday, October 18, 2012, 10:07 AM Lam Research (LRCX +5.4%) pops following its FQ4 report. While results beat estimates, FQ1 guidance for revenue of $820M-$880M and EPS of $0.38-$0.52 is largely below a consensus of $927M and $0.49. But the Street has already priced in a very dour near-term outlook for chip equipment demand. During its earnings call, Lam said it has lowered its 2012 forecast for global chip equipment spending to $28B-$29B - that's below the $31.4B (-13% Y/Y) recently forecast by Gartner. Comment! [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
Thursday, October 18, 2012, 9:07 AM Ultratech (UTEK): Q3 EPS of $0.45 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $60.5M (+10% Y/Y) beats by $0.7M. Shares -3.8% premarket. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, On the Move]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 4:31 PM More on Intel's Q3: PC division sales -8% Y/Y, server division +6%. PC CPU prices -1% Q/Q and -4% Y/Y. Gross margin was 64.3%, nearly flat Q/Q and better than expected. But it's forecast to fall to 57%-59% in Q4, which suggests pricing/ASP weakness. 2012 capex, previously expected to be at low end of $12.1B-$12.9B range, is now expected to total just $11B-$11.6B (a negative for chip equipment stocks). INTC -1.9% AH. CC at 5PM ET (webcast). (CFO comments - PDF) (PR) 18 Comments [Tech, Earnings]
Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 11:30 AM Chip equipment stocks plunge following a report Samsung (SSNLF.PK) will cut its chip capex by half next year, following a major 2012 increase. AMAT -2%. KLAC -3.6%. LRCX -3.3%. UTEK -2.9%. ASML -2.6%. CYMI -3.1%. Barclays is "highly skeptical" of the report, but does think Samsung's capex could fall by a third. On the flip side, the report is giving a lift to SanDisk (SNDK +3.8%) and Micron (MU +3%), given it bodes well for next year's DRAM and NAND flash supply/demand balances. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 9:09 AM FormFactor (FORM) is buying fellow chip test equipment maker MicroProbe for $100M in cash and $17M in stock. MicroProbe posted 2011 sales of $87.3M, up 46% Y/Y (boosted by cyclicality). M&A activity in the slumping chip equipment space has been picking up - the year had already seen Lam Research merge with Novellus and Tokyo Electron snap up FSI International, and last year, Applied Materials bought Varian. Some smaller names that are still independent: CYMI, LTXC, COHU, UTEK, RTEC. Comment! [Tech, M&A]
Thursday, July 19, 2012, 8:51 AM Ultratech (UTEK): Q2 EPS of $0.41 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $59.1M (+9.6% Y/Y) beats by $5M. Shares +2.2% premarket. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Tech, On the Move]
Thursday, July 12, 2012, 5:46 PM Lam Research (LRCX) CEO Martin Anstice tries to calm fears stoked by rival chip equipment maker's Applied Materials' (AMAT) FY12 warning, stating he hasn't seen a major drop in demand. Anstice adds he expects production of 28nm wafers, currently supply-constrained due to TSMC's (TSM) difficulties, to eventually grow to a healthy 250K-300K/month. (Needham) Comment! [Tech]

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$UTEK - 100% Barchart technical buy signal - 5 new highs and up 11.65% in the last month - Relative Strength Index 74.07%
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7 Cash-Loaded Tech Stocks With Strong Earnings http://bit.ly/RdlkxY $ADI $ALTR $HITT $LLTC $NVEC $QLGC $UTEK @ZetaKap
9/24/12
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4 Highly Liquid Small Cap Stocks That Analysts Love http://bit.ly/Qn58ez $MCRL $MGAM $UTEK $ZIGO @ZetaKap
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5 Fast Growth And Profitable Small Cap Tech Stocks http://bit.ly/OF3m2j $EGHT $INVN $QSII $RAVN $UTEK @ZetaKap
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Kirk Lindstrom
why no UTEK transcripts?
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Imbroglio Capital: When to walk away http://t.co/vA9k2Ss $AG, $UTEK, $YUM
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12 Stocks That Are Breaking down http://bit.ly/lJQpJ0 AEIS CCMP FUNC LECO MEI PNC RNR SILC SONC STL UTEK WMGI
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John Ward
Just a few of the more resilient stocks: FTNT ATHN N NFLX UTEK CMG CTRX CERN CRR PLCM GMCR
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$UTEK sizable insider selling http://yhoo.it/gep090
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