Onto Innovation Jumps 6% Tuesday Following Camtek Earnings and NVIDIA’s $500 Billion Partnership

Onto Innovation Jumps 6% Tuesday Following Camtek Earnings and NVIDIA’s $500 Billion Partnership

Eric Bleeker

Tue, August 11, 2026 at 7:48 PM GMT+3 4 min read

Quick Read

• Onto Innovation surged 6% Tuesday and is up 85% year to date, riding AI-driven demand for its HBM and advanced packaging inspection tools.

• Camtek's record $133 million quarter and $600 million in YTD bookings, plus NVIDIA's $500 billion AI infrastructure financing deal, confirm accelerating demand across the semiconductor supply chain.

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Shares of Onto Innovation (NYSE:ONTO) are trading higher midday Tuesday, up 5.9% to $308.51 from Monday's close of $291.35. The semiconductor process control name is riding a positive AI supply chain read-through from peer Camtek's blowout quarter and a broader bid across the group.

Peer Camtek's Record Quarter Lights the Rally

The primary catalyst is a direct read-through from Camtek (NASDAQ:CAMT), which reported Q2 2026 results on August 10, 2026. Camtek posted record revenue of $133.24 million, topping the $130.19 million consensus, with non-GAAP EPS of $0.78 versus the $0.76 estimate.

The bigger tell for Onto investors was the order book. CEO Rafi Amit disclosed that year-to-date bookings have crossed $600 million, with deliveries stretching into 2027. Camtek guided Q3 revenue to $158 million to $160 million, roughly 20% sequential growth, and flagged Advanced Packaging revenue growing approximately 70% between Q1 and Q4 2026. Amit noted the surge is driven by AI-linked HBM memory and chiplet architectures. That is the same tailwind powering Onto's Dragonfly and Atlas platforms.

Onto's Own Setup Was Already Bullish

Camtek is running into strength that Onto had already flagged in its own May 5, 2026 Q1 FY2026 8-K filing. Onto delivered record revenue of $291.95 million, up 9.5% year over year, and non-GAAP EPS of $1.42, in line with estimates. Advanced nodes revenue climbed 13% sequentially.

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Management guided Q2 FY2026 revenue to $320 million to $330 million, with non-GAAP EPS of $1.65 to $1.73 and non-GAAP operating margin of 28% to 28.6%. The advanced nodes segment is positioned for roughly 25% full-year growth. CEO Mike Plisinski pointed to the Dragonfly G5 inspection system landing qualifications at both a 2.5D logic customer and an HBM customer, alongside a second logic win for the Atlas G6 metrology system in gate-all-around. Those are the exact process nodes where AI capacity is being built.

NVIDIA's AI Financing Announcement Adds Fuel

Sentiment across the AI supply chain also benefited from reports Tuesday that NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, and other Wall Street firms on a financing platform reportedly aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure. Wells Fargo maintained an Overweight rating with a $315 price target, and analysts described the move as reinforcing NVIDIA's position and turning compute into an investable asset class. If that capital flows through into more data center buildouts, the metrology and inspection tools that qualify HBM stacks and 2.5D logic packages, Onto's core business, sit directly in the path.

Momentum Context

Onto's move today extends what has already been a strong run. Shares are up roughly 85% year to date and roughly 183% over the past year through Monday's close. The market cap sits near $15.14 billion. Camtek, for its part, is up roughly 49% year to date and jumped 13.1% over the past week heading into today. Other stocks in the semiconductor and advanced packaging space are also rallying today. Cohu (Nasdaq: COHU) is up 4.8%. The company offers optical inspection and metrology, which gets a read-through from Camtek's results.

What to Watch

The next major data point is Onto's Q2 FY2026 earnings report, where investors will be looking for confirmation of the $320 million to $330 million revenue guide and any commentary on advanced packaging order flow that would echo Camtek's $600 million YTD bookings tally. Between now and then, keep an eye on whether today's gains hold into the close and whether the stock reclaims its recent highs.

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