Veeco Instruments

VECO

Veeco is a global capital equipment supplier, headquartered in the U.S., that designs and builds processing systems used to manufacture high tech microelectronics devices including semiconductors, photonics, MEMS, display technologies and power devices. These devices are used for LED lighting, communication networks, data storage, advanced computing and mobile devices, and in emerging applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning and 5G.Veeco's processing system capabilities include laser, photolithography, ion beam, metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), wet wafer processing, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), atomic layer deposition (ALD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), dicing and lapping, and gas and vapor delivery.

Veeco Instruments has been a target of short sellers for a while. The current short interest of 9.37% is roughly at the average of the last 12 months (8.84%).