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Nova Ltd.

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “publicly traded company”. Today it says “publicly traded company that provides advanced metrology solutions for semiconductor manufacturing”.
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Nova Ltd. , formerly known as Nova Measuring Instruments , is a publicly traded company, headquartered in Israel, a provider of metrology devices for advanced process control used in semiconductor manufacturing . Shares of the company are traded on the NASDAQ Global Market and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange .

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publicly traded company

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publicly traded company that provides advanced metrology solutions for semiconductor manufacturing

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