MKSI MKS Inc.
MKS Inc. (MKSI) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Technology. Listed on NASDAQ. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (Theil–Sen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
Broken down below, rising on both timeframes
Price has closed below the channel. Support has failed — treat the buy target with caution.
The next few months are read from the last 9 months, the stretch whose swings the lines actually follow, because the last 12 months alone do not contain enough turns to fit reliably (41% against 77%). The last 12 months stay as context: rising, more than +100% a year. The target of US$455.06 is below the nearest ceiling (US$602.43), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$280.27 — the floor of the channel being read — after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 9 months read from
- US$280.27 – US$721.86 Rising channel, more than +100% a year
- 12 months
- US$290.89 – US$602.43 Rising channel, more than +100% a year
- Position in that channel
- -10% below the floor of it — 0% is the floor, 100% the ceiling
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -48% from US$444.7630 June 2026 → 15 Sept 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company2 of 6 Hardware, Equipment & Parts peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 0%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 75% of 10 comparable falls came back, typically in 110 days measured on its own peer group
The trend broke in June 2026: price fell 48% from 444.76 to 231.41 by September 2026, and has regained 0% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: “MKS Invests $25M To Expand Its Atotech Equipment Production Facility In Guangzhou, China”. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 48% here have come back to the old high 75% of the time (10 comparable falls), typically in 110 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it. Priced from that: 455.06 within 109 days, reached 75% of the time in 10 comparable falls — about 0.89% a day held.
The buy and sell prices below are priced off this recovery rather than off the channel: it is the better expected return per day held once each is charged for the odds of working.
Reported at the time: MKS Invests $25M To Expand Its Atotech Equipment Production Facility In Guangzhou, China — 25 June 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (9 months)
- Lower trend line (9 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$231.41
level as at 16 Sept 2026
Our target
US$455.06
by 3 Jan 2027
Projected move
96.7%
gross, before costs
Price sits between our buy level and our target.
The trend broke in June 2026: price fell 48% from 444.76 to 231.41 by September 2026, and has regained 0% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: “MKS Invests $25M To Expand Its Atotech Equipment Production Facility In Guangzhou, China”. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 48% here have come back to the old high 75% of the time (10 comparable falls), typically in 110 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it. Priced from that: 455.06 within 109 days, reached 75% of the time in 10 comparable falls — about 0.89% a day held. The entry is today's price, not a dip level: the fall is behind it and the evidence measured is what these recoveries paid from here, so waiting for a lower entry would be waiting for something the record does not say is coming. Of 10 comparable falls in Hardware, Equipment & Parts, 75% were back at the old high within 110 days of the low, and the ones that got there gave up about 15% along the way — so expect to be underwater before it works. The target is the median level they regained, which is short of the old high of 444.76 because not all of them saw it again. It is a prediction and it is revised the same way any other is: if price loses its 50-day trend and stays below it, the recovery is treated as failed rather than delayed.
- Upper line touches
- 2
- Lower line touches
- 3
- Fit confidence
- 77%
- Fitted
- 16 Sept 2026
About MKS Inc.
MKS Inc. (MKSI) functions as a worldwide supplier of sophisticated instruments, integrated systems, specialized components, and advanced process control solutions. The company's products are engineered to precisely measure, observe, deliver, evaluate, energize, and regulate essential operational factors within diverse manufacturing environments across the globe. Its offerings are categorized into three primary divisions: 1. Vacuum & Analysis: This segment provides cutting-edge solutions for managing pressure and vacuum, featuring both direct and indirect pressure sensing devices. It also offers material handling technologies, including flow and valve systems, alongside integrated pressure measurement and control subsystems designed for meticulous process regulation. Furthermore, it supplies power delivery apparatus such as microwave, radio frequency matching networks, and metrology tools, which are crucial for supplying energy to etching, stripping, and deposition procedures. Plasma and reactive gas products also fall under this division. 2. Light & Motion: Concentrating on light-based technologies, this unit features a broad spectrum of laser products, encompassing continuous wave, pulsed nanosecond, diode, diode-pumped solid-state, and fiber lasers. Its photonics portfolio includes motion control systems, optical tables with vibration isolation platforms, a variety of photonic instruments, precision optics and optical assemblies, opto-mechanical parts, temperature sensing devices vital for wafer fabrication, and laser/LED measurement equipment like power/energy meters, beam profilers, and optical/photonic subsystems. 3. Equipment & Solutions: This division specializes in laser-driven systems for printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing. Its offerings cover flexible interconnect PCB processing and high-density interconnect solutions for rigid PCB production and substrate preparation. Additionally, it provides test systems for multi-layer ceramic capacitors. MKS Inc. serves a wide array of sectors, including semiconductor manufacturing, industrial technologies, life and health sciences, academic research, and defense. The company distributes its products and services through its internal sales team, independent distributors, sales representatives, and directly via its online platforms and product catalogs. Founded in 1961, MKS Inc. maintains its corporate headquarters in Andover, Massachusetts.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Hardware, Equipment & Parts
- CEO
- Tseng Chung Lee
- Employees
- 10,200
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings — that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$17.31B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 2.00
- Avg volume
- 1.38M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
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- 52-week range
- 97.5-447.62
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
Key ratios
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Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.