5 Monopoly Stocks At the Top of Their Game
ASML Holding
- Market value: $263.4 billion
- Dividend yield: 1.2%
ASML Holding (ASML, $669.56) dominates the world of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and at the same time, it doesn’t. The company has a small share of the global semiconductor manufacturing equipment. However, it has the lion’s share of so-called EUV semiconductor manufacturing equipment, which uses 13.5 nanometer wavelengths to produce chips with as little as 3 nanometers between transistors. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.
Without the chips ASML equipment makes, Apple could not make iPhones. And with new demand anticipated for accelerator graphics processing chips to fuel AI applications, speculation is high that the company can maintain its monopoly stock…
