Mks Inc
Mks Inc (MKSI) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Scientific & Technical Instruments, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Andover, United States and has 10,200 employees. The company is worth $13.26B and trades at 31.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $3.93B in fiscal 2025, up 9.6% from the year before. Net income was $295M. The share price is 56.2% below its 52-week high of $447.62. It pays a dividend yielding 0.51%. 8 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Steve Cohen (Point72 Asset Management), at $888.2M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 6 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +41.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,486.25▲ +48.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $159.80 | $104.39 | $102.87 | $84.73 | $174.17 | $150.45 | $110.01 | $64.61 | $94.50 | $59.40 | $36.00 | $36.60 | $29.92 | $25.78 | $27.82 | $24.50 | $17.40 | $14.79 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 20.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKAMAkamai Technologies Inc | $91.13 | 32.7x | 2.8x | 0.00% | 8.92% | $13.1B |
| HUBSHubspot Inc | $267.19 | 89.4x | 8.0x | 0.00% | 7.89% | $13.68B |
| CACICACI International Inc | $619.22 | 25.6x | 3.1x | 0.00% | 12.82% | $13.68B |
| FIGFigma, Inc. | $24.10 |
| P/E | 20.7x | 36.6x | 37.1x | — | 15.2x | 17.6x | 23.8x | 43.1x | 9.0x | 15.3x | 30.6x | 15.8x | 16.9x | 44.7x | 28.6x | 11.4x | 8.8x | — | 25.1x |
| P/S | 2.3x | 2.7x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 1.6x | 3.3x | 3.6x | 3.2x | 1.7x | 2.7x | 2.5x | 2.4x | 2.5x | 2.4x | 2.1x | 1.8x | 1.5x | 2.2x | 1.2x |
| P/B | 1.8x | 4.0x | 3.0x | 2.8x | 1.3x | 3.3x | 3.5x | 3.0x | 1.9x | 3.2x | 2.6x | 1.7x | 1.8x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.5x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 0.8x |
| EPS | $4.37 | $2.81 | -$27.54 | $5.56 | $9.90 | $6.33 | $2.55 | $7.14 | $6.16 | $1.94 | $2.28 | $2.16 | $0.67 | $0.90 | $2.45 | $2.80 | -$4.31 | $0.59 |
| Dividend yield | 1.04% | 0.55% | 0.84% | 0.86% | 1.04% | 0.49% | 0.53% | 0.73% | 1.21% | 0.75% | 1.14% | 1.88% | 1.79% | 2.14% | 2.40% | 2.16% | — | — | — |
| Payout | 27.05% | 20.14% | 31.32% | — | 15.83% | 8.69% | 12.64% | 31.37% | 10.92% | 11.44% | 35.05% | 29.61% | 30.32% | 95.52% | 68.89% | 24.49% | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 8.74% | 7.50% | 5.30% | -50.83% | 9.39% | 18.68% | 15.02% | 7.39% | 18.93% | 17.70% | 8.09% | 15.03% | 14.83% | 5.34% | 7.46% | 15.77% | 16.71% | -54.15% | 4.85% |
| ROE | 9.49% | 10.85% | 8.18% | -74.47% | 7.43% | 19.09% | 14.83% | 6.94% | 20.97% | 21.34% | 8.44% | 10.53% | 10.70% | 3.50% | 4.75% | 13.10% | 16.83% | -31.05% | 3.40% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-45.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 8.7x |
| 0.00% |
| -108.64% |
| $12.85B |
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