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MKSI

MKS Inc. Common Stock

Industrials · ·

$291.31

$21.79 (-7.0%)

Market Cap

$19.70B

Day Range

$285.58 - $309.67

52-Week Range

$95.54 - $447.62

Beta

Next Earnings

03.11.2026

MKSI is a stock from the Industrials sectorManufacturing, aerospace, defense, and infrastructure — closely tied to capital-investment cycles and economic growth.

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+249.4% (1Y)

Investor Score
56/ 100C
🟡 Moderate

This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer

📈46D+Technical
💰60C+Fundamental
🚀76B+Growth
💎33FValuation
📰100A+News
🏦42DQuality
⚠️42DRisk

Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%

🔍 Cross-Check

Overall Score

🟡 Mixed

Technical Trend

🔴 Bearish

Insiders

🔴 Bearish

✅ Why is the score relatively high?

  • 🟢 Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 55.5%
  • 🟢 Free cash flow growth: 21.2%
  • 🟢 Net income growth: 55.3%
  • 🟢 Current ratio: 2.71
  • 🟢 Price is above the 200-day average

⚠️ What's concerning?

  • 🔴 Estimated fair value: $62.79 vs. price $291.31 (-78.4%)
  • 🔴 Operating margin is eroding over time
  • 🔴 ATR: 8.2% of price
  • 🔴 Debt/equity: 1.55
  • 🔴 Price is below the 50-day average

🚦 Quality & Risk Checks

🔴 Operating margin stability🟡 Conservative leverage🔴 Daily volatility (ATR)🔴 Leverage risk🟢 Liquidity risk

📰 News Trend

Based on real financial news (Finnhub)
🟢 Positive

Everyone's writing about MKS Inc. Common Stock. News trend score: 100. Reason: 14 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 0 negative.

News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer

📈 Technical Analysis

Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.

🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (3 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 neutral)

Conclusions

  • 🔴Price vs. SMA 50Price is below the 50-day average
  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 200Price is above the 200-day average
  • 🔴MACDMACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
  • 🔴RSIRSI 45.8 — weak/negative bias
  • 🟡Stochastic%K 61.3 — neutral range
  • 🟡ADX (trend strength)ADX 22.7 — weak trend/choppy
  • 🟢Relative strength vs. S&P 500+4.1% over the last 3 months relative to the index
  • 🔴ROC (rate of change)ROC 12 days: -3.4%
  • 🟢Parabolic SARPrice is above the SAR point — uptrend
  • 🔴CMF (money flow)CMF 20 days: -0.21

Wyckoff Method Analysis

A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.

Markdown

The stock is in a clear downtrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.

Medium confidence

Evidence Behind This Read

  • 🔴Falling price trendA -6.3% change over the last 50 days, with no defined trading range.

The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.

🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)

Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.

1️⃣ Market Structure

🟢 Uptrend

The price is above the 200-day average — per the market-structure method, this environment mainly favors looking for buying (Long) opportunities.

2️⃣ Value Zone

🟡 Price far from value zone

The price is currently far from the 50-day average — the method recommends waiting for a "pullback" before entering, rather than chasing prices.

3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)

Method formula: Stop-loss = support minusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.

Entry

$313.10

Stop-Loss

$230.53

Risk per Share

$82.57

Direction

Long

Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)

1:2 R

$478.23

1:3 R

$560.80

1:5 R

$725.94

💰 Position Size Calculator

A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.

Suggested Position Size

1 sh.

💰 Financial Health

Profitability

Gross Margin

46.7%

Operating Margin

13.4%

Net Margin

7.5%

EBITDA Margin

22.2%

Efficiency

ROE

10.8%

ROA

3.4%

ROIC

EPS

$4.39

Balance Sheet

Cash

$418.00M

Total Debt

$4.20B

Current Ratio

2.71

Debt/Equity

1.55

Conclusions

  • 🟢Gross marginGross margin: 46.7% — strong
  • 🟡Operating marginOperating margin: 13.4% — reasonable
  • 🟡Net marginNet margin: 7.5% — reasonable
  • 🟡Return on equity (ROE)Return on equity (ROE): 10.8% — reasonable
  • 🔴Return on assets (ROA)Return on assets (ROA): 3.4% — weak
  • 🟢Current ratio (liquidity)Current ratio: 2.71
  • 🔴Debt-to-equityDebt/equity: 1.55
  • 🟡Interest coverageInterest coverage: 2.5x

🚀 Growth

Revenue

Earnings per Share (EPS)

Net Income

Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Conclusions

  • 🟡Revenue growth (last year)Revenue growth (last year): 9.6%
  • 🟢Earnings per share (EPS) growthEarnings per share (EPS) growth: 55.5%
  • 🟢Free cash flow growthFree cash flow growth: 21.2%
  • 🟢Net income growthNet income growth: 55.3%

💵 Dividends

Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.

Annual Dividend per Share

Ex-Dividend DateAmount per Share
3.6.2026$0.250
23.2.2026$0.250
24.11.2025$0.220
25.8.2025$0.220
27.5.2025$0.220
24.2.2025$0.220
25.11.2024$0.220
26.8.2024$0.220
24.5.2024$0.220
23.2.2024$0.220
24.11.2023$0.220
25.8.2023$0.220

💎 Fair Value (Valuation)

Current Price

$291.31

Estimated Fair Value (DCF)

$62.79

Gap

-78.4%

🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value

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Year 1 Growth Rate

3.6%

Discount Rate (WACC)

9.0%

Terminal Growth Rate

2.5%

Projection Years

5

YearGrowth RateProjected FCFPresent Value
13.6%$514.79M$472.29M
23.3%$531.84M$447.64M
33.0%$548.01M$423.16M
42.8%$563.19M$398.97M
52.5%$577.27M$375.18M

Base FCF (last actual year)

$497.00M

Terminal Value

$9.10B

Present Value of Terminal Value

$5.92B

Enterprise Value

$8.03B

Net Debt

$3.78B

Equity Value

$4.25B

*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.

Book Value per Share

$40.16

Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)

-$29.47

Conclusions

  • 🔴DCF Fair ValueEstimated fair value: $62.79 vs. price $291.31 (-78.4%)
  • 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV)NAV per share: -$29.47
  • 🔴P/EP/E: 71.6

🕴️ Insider Trading

Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 22 sales out of the last 25 filings.

NameTransaction TypeDateSharesChangePrice
Williams John EdwardOpen Market Sale3.8.20264,098-457$288.31
Schreiner James AlanOpen Market Sale12.6.202620,230-2,471$345.52
Schreiner James AlanOpen Market Sale12.6.202619,418-812$346.41
Schreiner James AlanOpen Market Sale12.6.202619,201-217$347.00
Schreiner James AlanOpen Market Sale10.6.202622,701-781$317.42
McCarthy Michelle MOpen Market Sale5.6.20262-2,434$315.23
Mora ElizabethOpen Market Sale1.6.202619,145-300$318.02
Henry David PhilipOpen Market Sale1.6.202610,422-6,000$314.43
COLELLA GERALD GOpen Market Sale27.5.202639,553-464$330.38
COLELLA GERALD GOpen Market Sale27.5.202631,343-8,210$331.45
COLELLA GERALD GOpen Market Sale27.5.202626,467-4,876$332.04
COLELLA GERALD GOpen Market Sale27.5.202624,656-1,811$335.46
COLELLA GERALD GOpen Market Sale27.5.202623,030-1,626$336.54
COLELLA GERALD GOpen Market Sale27.5.202622,817-213$337.05
COLELLA GERALD GOpen Market Sale27.5.202620,017-2,800$338.58
Donahue Joseph BOpen Market Sale27.5.202610,033-2,100$327.95
Henry David PhilipOpen Market Sale26.5.202616,341-2,500$330.50
Lee John Tseng-ChungOpen Market Sale22.5.2026144,696-10,000$315.48
Mayampurath RamakumarOpen Market Sale22.5.20261-8,810$315.48
CANNONE PETER IIIOpen Market Sale18.5.20267,794-1,350$303.40
Moloney Jacqueline FOpen Market Sale14.5.20268,775-1,000$312.20
Moloney Jacqueline FOpen Market Sale13.5.20269,775-1,400$318.99
COLELLA GERALD GGrant/Award from Employer11.5.20268,999+782
Batra RajGrant/Award from Employer11.5.202616,227+782
CANNONE PETER IIIGrant/Award from Employer11.5.20269,144+782

📉 Short Interest

Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.

Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest

+3.9%

5,158,599 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 4,963,667 on 2026-06-30

Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.

Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity

+24.5%

42.0% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 33.7% the prior week

Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.

📰 News & Sentiment

Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 14 positive, 6 neutral, 0 negative out of the last 20 articles.