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VECO · Concentration risk · 10-K extracted

Veeco Instruments (VECO) concentration risks

Updated

The most significant concentration Veeco Instruments discloses is non-U.S. customers at 85%, classified HIGH by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.

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Source: Veeco Instruments’s SEC Form 10-K filed view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

At a glance

Disclosed-size breakdown · 2 disclosed concentrations

HIGH1
MEDIUM1
LOW0
Disclosed concentrations

Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).

HIGHBuilt-inGeographic
85%

non-U.S. customers

10-K Item 1A: 'Our percentage revenue from the sale of products and the provision of services to non-U.S. customers was 85% for fiscal year 2025'
SEC 10-K · filed Feb 2026
MEDIUMOutside partyCustomer

principal customers

10-K Item 1: 'We rely on certain principal customers for a significant portion of our sales'
SEC 10-K · filed Feb 2026
TrendMatrix Research · concentration synthesis

What these concentrations mean together

updated 2026-06-24

The company's concentration profile combines a high-share geographic exposure and a medium-share customer dependency that together define the demand risk surface for its advanced deposition equipment. Non-U.S. customers accounted for 85% of revenues from products and services for fiscal year 2025, a high-share structural concentration reflecting that semiconductor, LED, and compound semiconductor manufacturing — the primary end markets for the company's equipment — are geographically concentrated in Asia-Pacific manufacturing hubs. This is structural in character: the customer geography follows where global wafer and chip production capacity is built rather than where individual bilateral contracts happen to concentrate. The customer dimension adds a medium-share dependency layer. The company relies on certain principal customers for a significant portion of sales, though no specific percentage is cited in the source quote, indicating a qualitative but material dependency on a focused set of OEM and fab customers. In capital equipment businesses, these relationships tend to be program-specific and long-cycle, meaning that winning or losing a major fab expansion or technology transition program has outsized revenue impact. Together the geographic and customer concentrations are mutually reinforcing: the same Asia-Pacific customers that define the geographic tilt are the principal accounts driving the customer dependency. The key watch variables for this business are semiconductor capital expenditure cycles in Asia-Pacific, particularly in LED, power, and advanced logic fabs, and the company's design-win trajectory with its principal customers.

For the engine’s reasoning on VECO’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.

Industry peers · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

Peer concentration profile

SymbolNameHIGHMEDIUMLOWTotal
ACLSAxcelis Technologies, Inc.3104
ACMRACM Research, Inc.3003
AMBAAmbarella, Inc.3003
AMATApplied Materials, Inc.2024
AMKRAmkor Technology, Inc.1203
VECOVeeco Instruments Inc.1102

Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.

Concentration disclosures are extracted verbatim from SEC 10-K filings; the disclosed-size classification and the synthesis above are engine-derived. Size reflects how large each exposure is against fixed share thresholds (HIGH >50%, MEDIUM 25–50%, LOW <25% or an explicit diversification statement), not a judgment of how dangerous it is, and is not a buy/sell rating, a price target, or a view on the stock. Not a complete list of risk factors — see the full filing.

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