According to TechFlow, on October 15, ASML, the world's leading lithography system manufacturer, released its third-quarter financial report for fiscal year 2024 and lowered its performance expectations for 2025, which aroused investors' concerns and caused its U.S. stocks to plummet by more than 10% during intraday trading.

Affected by this, the Nasdaq Composite Index fell more than 1%, and the stock price of semiconductor leader NVIDIA widened its decline to 5.7%, marking the largest single-day drop since September 6, 2024.

ASML's gross profit margin in the third quarter was 50.8%, slightly higher than the market expectation of 50.7%. New orders in the third quarter were only 2.63 billion euros, far lower than the 5.39 billion euros expected by analysts.

ASML expects net sales in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 to be between 8.8 billion euros and 9.2 billion euros, with full-year net sales forecast maintained at 28 billion euros.

ASML lowered its performance guidance for fiscal year 2025, expecting net sales to be between 30 billion euros and 35 billion euros, lower than the market's previous expectation of 35.94 billion euros. At the same time, the gross profit margin forecast for fiscal year 2025 was lowered to the range of 51% to 53%.