JPMorgan's European Technology analyst Sandeep Deshpande said the main impacts of the Brexit vote are currency impacts, possible tariffs and economic impacts, but noted that economic impacts are still hard to call at this point and that tariffs are likely to be less important for tech companies. Among the European tech companies he discusses, Deshpande noted that ARM Holdings (ARMH) will see a positive 1.5% impact to EPS for every 1% move in sterling. The analyst added that he does not expect ASML (ASML) to see any reportable impact from currency shifts and called out STMicroelectronics (STM) as having the greatest currency exposure among semiconductor names.

The company said, "We will now drive the Company based on a revised plan for FY24 revenues in the range of $14 billion to $15 billion. Within this plan, we expect a gross margin in the low 40's. We plan to maintain our Net Capex1 plan for FY24 at about $2.5 billion focusing on our strategic manufacturing initiatives."

Reports Q1 revenue $3.47B, consensus $3.61B. Jean-Marc Chery, ST President & CEO, commented: "Q1 net revenues and gross margin both came in below the midpoint of our business outlook range, driven by lower revenues in Automotive and Industrial, partially offset by higher revenues in Personal Electronics."

Berenberg upgraded STMicroelectronics to Buy from Hold with a price target of EUR 49, down from EUR 53. The semiconductors market us "not too far from recovery," the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm says the negative industry end market trend is now priced into shares and concerns about Chinese auto semiconductor localization are overdone. Also, auto semi content growth should continue, driven by vehicle digitization, contends Berenberg.