Ticker brief
VECO VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC
Technology · Semiconductors
last close
$44.30
1 day
-5.6%
14 days
-15.5%
mkt cap
$3.5B
signals 14d
5
authors 14d
3
crowd 14d
-0.4σ
Options inteloptions-surface reads · latest available day per source
| metric | reading | context |
|---|---|---|
| IV — ATM 30d | 76% | IV/HV 0.95× (as of 2026-08-19) |
| Skew — 25Δ RR 30d | +0.041 | 25Δ call IV − put IV |
| Net dealer OI (NDOI) | -0.16 thin | 5-session Δ +0.00 (as of 2026-07-16) |
| OI alarm | quiet | last alarm 2026-07-10 (z=2.0) |
Sentiment — last 14 days
daily mean sentiment, 2026-08-15 → 2026-08-19 · now +0.05 (−1 bearish … +1 bullish)
Who spoke3
| author | grade | trader score | signals | mean sent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @PepInvestStocks | B | -0.34 | 2 | +0.03 |
| @HunterAllen4 | C | -1.66 | 2 | +0.58 |
| @crux_capital_ | A | -1.81 | 1 | +0.25 |
Recent signals5of 5 in 14d — receipts included
| date (PT) | author | sent | what they said | since then | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | @PepInvestStocks | +0.05 | Long-form thesis favors ALRIB as a profitable semiconductor-equipment supplier with AI and quantum exposure. | -6.6% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-17 | @HunterAllen4 | +0.30 | Promotes a basket of overlooked stocks as candidates for future large runners. | -18.6% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-17 | @HunterAllen4 | +0.85 | Highly bullish breakout watch above $56 with upside objectives in the $70s and at $80. | -18.6% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-16 | @PepInvestStocks | +0.00 | Uses a €3B versus €200M peer comparison to argue ALRIB is substantially undervalued. | -15.5% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-15 | @crux_capital_ | +0.25 | Author likes a disclosed photonics portfolio and highlights SMTC as under-discussed. | -15.5% | tweet ↗ |
“Since then” = price move from the close on the signal's date (PT) to the latest close — what happened after they said it, not a backtest. A — means no trading session has closed since the signal yet. Sentiment is our extracted per-tweet score, −1…+1.