AI Chip Concept Stocks Insight | ASMPT (00522.HK) down 1.57%, Q3 bookings hit record HKD 8.845 billion

NewTimeSpace News, on 28 October 2026, AI chip stocks traded actively while ASMPT (00522.HK) gave up early gains. As of 13:26, the company quoted HKD 119.300, down 1.57%.

On the news front, on 28 October 2026 ASMPT reported third-quarter results, with revenue of HKD 5.247 billion, up 6.3% quarter on quarter and 48.7% year on year; net profit of HKD 533.2 million, up 27.6% quarter on quarter and a turnaround from a loss a year earlier; and an adjusted gross margin of 42.9%, up 0.35 percentage points quarter on quarter and 5.17 percentage points year on year; adjusted net profit came to HKD 690 million, up 486.3% year on year.

In addition, group bookings reached a record HKD 8.845 billion in the third quarter, up 24.7% quarter on quarter and 137.9% year on year, lifting the book-to-bill ratio to 1.69, the highest since the first quarter of 2021; bookings at the SEMI segment rose 156.3% year on year to HKD 4.417 billion, while SMT bookings rose 122.1% to HKD 4.428 billion, a third consecutive quarterly record.

CITI noted that third-quarter bookings were a record, that bookings at both the SEMI and SMT segments rose, and that the mid-point of management's fourth-quarter revenue guidance was above market expectations, with advanced packaging demand still supported by order trends.

ASMPT (00522.HK) Engages in R&D and global sales of semiconductor assembly and packaging equipment, advanced packaging equipment, and surface mount technology. Its 2.5D/3D advanced packaging tools, such as thermo-compression bonding (TCB) machines, have been delivered to multiple leading OSATs, IDMs, and memory manufacturers worldwide for volume production of HBM and chiplet-based chips. The company has publicly disclosed multiple follow-on orders from AI-compute related customers.