Are you a shareholder of either (NASDAQ: AAPL) or ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML)? If so, congratulations: You recently became incrementally richer. As is their habit, both companies recently declared dividend raises. Still, while this means a bit more coin in the bank accounts of their investors, it doesn't necessarily mean either company is investment-worthy today.

So let's put Apple and ASML under the microscope and see if they pass inspection.

It's a little hard to imagine these days, but for the first few decades of its existence, Apple was basically a pure-play tech hardware company. It had a regularly refreshed lineup of personal computers that usually won praise for their quality and utility although the company never became a No. 1 producer of mass-market machines.

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