ONTO earnings

Onto Innovation reported Q2 FY2026. EPS came in at $1.93 against a $1.69 consensus, beat by 14.2%. Revenue was $343.1M versus $325.3M expected, beat by 5.5%. Gross margin was 53.4%, up 330 bps from last quarter.

Onto Innovation Onto Innovation reported in-line Q1 FY2026 results, with revenue and EPS matching street estimates. The company's guidance for Q2 FY2026, however, indicates a significant acceleration in growth, driven by strong demand across advanced nodes and specialty devices.

Onto Innovation missed Q4 Street EPS by -1.6% and revenue by -0.2%, but the variant perception is that investors are over-weighting a messy margin quarter and under-weighting a forward demand signal: 2.5D packaging orders more than doubled, advanced nodes grew sequentially by slightly over 30%, and management put Q2 revenue above $300 million. The debate should shift from whether Q4 was clean, because it was not, to whether ONTO is entering a higher-growth mix cycle in advanced packaging, HBM4 DRAM, and gate-all-around that offsets a stated power semi decline around 10%.

Onto Innovation missed revenue by -0.9% against the Street, but the print argues that investors should focus on mix, packaging tool demand, and a Q4 profit guide that reframes Q3 as a trough rather than a new run-rate. The variant view is that the market may be over-penalizing the $218.2 million revenue shortfall while underpricing the explicit “nearly double” Q4 packaging rebound, the $1.18 to $1.33 EPS guide, and the capacity signal of “as much as 20% more tools” from packaging customers.

Onto Innovation cleared the revenue bar by +14.5%, but the variant read is that investors should not capitalize the beat as a clean upcycle: EPS missed by -1.6%, Q3 revenue guidance steps down to $210 million to $225 million, and the real bull case is a fourth-quarter AI logic packaging snapback. The market may be mispricing this as a broad process-control acceleration when the print says something narrower: near-term mix and tariff pressure cap earnings power, while advanced packaging and new gate-all-around wins set up a measurable recovery if orders convert on schedule.