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Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.

$UCTT·$4.8B·Semiconductors·Technology
$92.43-0.2%YTD+253.6%1Y+255.8%
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UCUCTT
$UCTTUltra Clean Holdings, Inc.
$92.43-0.18%161 posts+19%
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $UCTT, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Driven by hypeAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-07-16

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Ultra Clean Holdings is up 307% over twelve months with new CFO Michael Keogh joining August 5 and AI-WFE demand accelerating.

Ultra Clean Holdings provides subsystems, precision parts, and ultra-high purity cleaning services to the semiconductor capital equipment industry, $4.76B market cap, with Q2 2026 earnings due 2026-08-03.

  • Q1 revenue was $534M, up 2.9% year-over-year with sequential growth of 5.3% — the second consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth after a period of decline, and EPS $0.31 topped $0.27 consensus by 14.8%.
  • Gross margin 15.6% (contract-manufacturer economics), operating margin trailing -5.3% but Q1 turned to positive 2.1% — the operating turn is showing.
  • Consensus models 2026 revenue $2.55B rising to $3.26B in 2027 and $4.05B in 2028, EPS $2.59 to $4.84 to $7.16 — the scale of the recovery arc.
  • On July 8, Ultra Clean appointed Michael Keogh as CFO effective August 5 — timing coincides with Q2 earnings, providing continuity through the reporting cycle.
  • Brian E. Harding S-Sale of 3,837 shares at $128.75 for $494K on July 2 — small relative to holdings, after A-Award of 9,363 shares on June 26.
  • The stock is up 307% over twelve months and 291% year-to-date, at 66% of the 52-week range, 5% above the 50-day and 79% above the 200-day.
  • Beta 1.83 with float 44M makes the tape reactive to semi-cap capex news, and a July 8 Seeking Alpha piece flagged the recent ~15% pullback.

The setup is a semi-cap contract manufacturer riding an AI-WFE cycle with a new CFO — August 3 tests the fiscal 2027 setup.

Agrees with X sentimentX posters describe UCTT as bullish, cite Michael Keogh's appointment sending shares +6% on the day, and frame the community-level thesis around 'Scaling for the AI Semicap Supercycle.' That aligns directly with the July 8 CFO announcement and the industry cycle-turn dynamics — semi-cap was one of the leading groups in June alongside memory names.

What to watch: August 3 Q2 earnings — revenue growth versus the +2.9% Q1 pace (any acceleration signals the WFE cycle is turning higher), gross-margin trajectory versus the 15.6% base, operating-margin trajectory, and fiscal 2026 guide versus the $2.55B revenue and $2.59 EPS consensus. New CFO Keogh's first commentary is a durable qualitative signal.

On the calendar: 2026-08-03 Q2 2026 earnings; revenue growth and operating-margin trajectory drive the print.

X sentiment

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Bullish sentiment7 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15

Ultra Clean Holdings chatter is bullish. UCTT appointed Michael Keogh as CFO effective Aug 5, sending shares +6%. Semi-cap equipment was one of the last groups standing along with memory in June - UCTT was a leader. Community describes UCTT investment thesis around 'Scaling for the AI Semicap Supercycle.' Community groups UCTT with FORM/ICHR/ONTO/AMAT as leaders. Neoclouds heating back up with NBIS driving semicaps + UCTT alongside. Community broadly long.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Supplies ultra-high-purity gas delivery subsystems, chemical delivery modules, and cleaning services for semiconductor capital equipment makers.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Semiconductors sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $UCTT.

Semiconductors · Technology

No material change from last week — structural AI capex engine unchanged: hyperscaler Blackwell allocation stays tight through 2H26 and HBM3e pricing holds as LLM context-window expansion drives 5-8x per-server memory demand uplift.

What this means for $UCTT

Partial — Supplies ultra-high-purity gas delivery subsystems, chemical delivery modules, and cleaning services for semiconductor capital equipment makers; this segment overlaps with the AI capex and HBM/compute demand cycle but is not the dominant revenue driver.

Top industry ETF

$SMHVanEck Semiconductor ETF
+50.8%YTD
+90.8%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-19.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-7.2%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-5.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-1.2%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
1.8Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-28.0%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
15.6%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
1.2Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Apr 28, 2026$0.31$0.27+14.8%
Q4 2025Feb 23, 2026$0.22$0.23-4.3%
Q3 2025Oct 28, 2025$0.28$0.24+16.7%
Q2 2025Jul 28, 2025$0.27$0.270.0%
Next earningsMon, Aug 3·consensus EPS $0.52

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$533.7M+2.9%15.8%2.1%$-0.40$-42.9M
Q4 FY25$506.7M-10.0%15.3%2.2%$-0.07$-2.6M
Q3 FY25$510.0M-5.6%16.1%2.1%$-0.24$-10.9M
Q2 FY25$518.8M+0.5%15.3%-27.3%$-3.58$12.4M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 4 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$2.6B$2.5B – $2.6B$2.59$2.47 – $2.744
FY27$3.3B$3.2B – $3.3B$4.84$4.62 – $5.113
FY28$4.0B$4.0B – $4.0B$7.16$2.28 – $12.052
FY29$4.0B$3.8B – $4.1B$6.14$5.86 – $6.491
FY30$4.6B$4.4B – $4.8B$7.99$7.62 – $8.441

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.7×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.58%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-5.3%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+61.3%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 44.0M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today2.4% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.835-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 2Brian E HardingChief Accounting Officer3.8K sh$494KSellJun 4Sheri SavageCFO30.2K sh$2.7MSellJun 4Brian E HardingChief Accounting Officer3.3K sh$292KSellJun 2Cho Paul YoonkuGeneral Counsel and Secretary944 sh$84KSellMay 27Emily M LiggettDirector8.2K sh$756KSellMay 14Jeffrey L. MckibbenChief Information Officer4.2K sh$366KSellMay 8Cho Paul YoonkuGeneral Counsel and Secretary2.0K sh$174KSellMay 8Jeffrey L. MckibbenChief Information Officer2.5K sh$216KSellMay 5Jamie J. PalfreySVP, Global Human Resources8.7K sh$693KSellMay 5Brian E HardingChief Accounting Officer4.0K sh$320K
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KOfficer or director changeJul 88-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

Ultra Clean Holdings (UCTT) — 8-K (Item 5.02) reporting an officer or director change effective July 2, 2026. Body excerpt does not identify the specific executive or the nature of the change. Administrative — officer/director change; refer to the full filing for the individual and role details.

8-KShareholder voteMay 268-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Ultra Clean Holdings held its 2026 Annual Meeting on May 22, 2026 with approximately 40.4M shares voted. Stockholders approved five proposals: (1) election of all eight directors; (2) ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor (40.1M for); (3) non-binding say-on-pay (35.1M for, 773K against); (4) stock incentive plan amendment adding 3,500,000 shares; and (5) ESPP amendment adding 450,000 shares. The share plan amendments are mildly dilutive but standard governance.

8-KMaterial agreementApr 248-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
AI summary

UCTT entered into a amendment (8-K Item 1.01, dated 2026-04-24). Counterparty: Company, as parent borrower, Barclays Bank PLC. Size: approximately $250 million. Material definitive agreement — investors should review the full exhibit for covenants, conditions, and use of proceeds.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 313
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for UCTT on 2026-03-31, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

8-KMaterial agreementMar 38-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation · Item 3.02: Unregistered equity sale
8-KMaterial agreementFeb 278-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 8.01: Other event
8-KOfficer or director changeJan 288-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Can Ultra Clean's Services Business Drive Long-Term Revenue Growth?zacks.com·3d agoUltra Clean Insider Sells 3,837 Shares After Q1 Revenue Hit $533.7 Millionfool.com·5d agoUltra Clean Appoints Michael Keogh as Chief Financial Officerprnewswire.com·9d agoCan Ultra Clean Benefit From Rising AI-Driven WFE Spending?zacks.com·10d agoWhat To Do After Ultra Clean Holdings Fell By Nearly 15%seekingalpha.com·10d ago

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