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This document and related discussions contain statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements with respect to plans, strategies, expected trends, including trends in the semiconductor industry and end markets, expected trends in product mix and geography, and business environment trends, expected growth in the semiconductor industry by 2030, statements with respect to AI including goals for use of AI in our portfolio and the expected impact of AI demand on our business, industry and results, statements with respect to EUV adoption, our expectation that lithography will remain at the heart of customer innovation, expected increase in critical lithography exposures, statements with respect to our product portfolio, our expectation that customer fundamentals remain strong, expected reduction in level of business uncertainty, expected demand, shipments, bookings, outlook of market segments, outlook and expected financial results including outlook and expected results for Q4 2025, including net sales, Installed Base Management sales, gross margin, R&D costs, SG&A costs, outlook and expected financial results for full year 2025, including expected full year 2025 total net sales and growth, gross margin, and estimated annualized effective tax rate and expected IBM sales, expectation of a very strong fourth quarter, and expectations with respect to EUV and DUV sales in 2026, expectations with respect to total 2026 net sales, statements made at our 2024 Investor Day, including modelled revenue and gross margin opportunity for 2030, our expectation to continue to return significant amounts of cash to shareholders through growing dividends and share buybacks, expectations with respect to our 2022-2025 share buyback program and plan to announce a new share buyback program in January 2026, and statements with respect to dividends, statements with respect to expected performance and capabilities of our systems and customer plans, statements with respect to our ESG strategy and commitments and other non-historical statements. You can generally identify these statements by the use of words like “may”, “expect”, “will”, “could”, “should”, “project”, “believe”, “anticipate”, “expect”, “plan”, “estimate”, “forecast”, “potential”, “intend”, “continue”, “target”, “future”, “progress”, “goal”, “model”, “opportunity”, “commitment” and variations of these words or comparable words. These statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions, plans and projections about our business and our future financial results and readers should not place undue reliance on them. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance and involve a number of substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks relating to customer demand, semiconductor equipment industry capacity, worldwide demand for semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing capacity, lithography tool utilization and semiconductor inventory levels, general trends and consumer confidence in the semiconductor industry, the impact of general economic conditions, including the impact of the current macroeconomic and geopolitical environment on the semiconductor industry, semiconductor market conditions, the ultimate impact of AI on our industry and business and semiconductor demand, the impact of inflation, interest rates, wars and geopolitical developments, the impact of pandemics, the performance of our systems, the success of technology advances and the pace of new product development and customer acceptance of and demand for new technologies and products, our production capacity and ability to adjust capacity to meet demand, supply chain capacity, timely availability of parts and components, raw materials, critical manufacturing equipment and qualified employees, our ability to produce systems to meet demand, the number and timing of systems ordered, shipped and recognized in revenue, risks relating to fluctuations in net bookings and our ability to convert bookings into sales, the risk of order cancellation, delays or push outs and restrictions on shipments of systems, including ordered systems, under export controls, risks relating to the trade environment, import/export and national security regulations and orders and their impact on us, including the impact of recent and future changes in export regulations and the impact of such regulations on our ability to obtain necessary licenses and to sell our systems and provide services to certain customers, the impact of the tariff announcements, exchange rate fluctuations, changes in tax rates, available liquidity and free cash flow and liquidity requirements, our ability to refinance our indebtedness, available cash and distributable reserves for, and other factors impacting, dividend payments and share repurchases, the number of shares that we repurchase under our share repurchase program, our ability to enforce patents and protect intellectual property rights and the outcome of intellectual property disputes and litigation, our ability to meet ESG goals and commitments and execute our ESG strategy, other factors that may impact ASML’s business or financial results, and other risks indicated in the risk factors included in ASML’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2024 and other filings with and submissions to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this document. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements after the date of this report or to conform such statements to actual results or revised expectations, except as required by law.