Stock Evaluator: KLA Corporation (KLAC)

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KLA Corporation KLAC

$182.82 2.49 1.38%
July 31, 2026 4:00:00 PM EST November 10, 2021 Volume: 13,503,499
After Hours: $120.37   0.15  |  0.12% November 10, 2021 7:59 PM EST Volume: 72,713
USD NASD | DELAYED PRICE
SECTOR INDUSTRY
Information Technology Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

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COMPANY SUMMARY
KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. It offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticle inspection and metrology systems; wafer inspection and metrology systems; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. The company also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, it offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Commentary & Analysis


Financial Summary

Share Statistics KLAC Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Market Cap (Mil) $238,813.2 $4,624.7 99%
Shares Out (Mil) 1,317.5 56.2 96%
Institutional Ownership 99.9% 94.3% 96%
Float (Mil) 1,303.2 76.5 93%
Beta 1.41 1.68 80%
Avg Daily Volume (000s) 13,028 1,052 97%
Price Change
(52-week)
97.7% 61.3% 91%
Growth KLAC Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Sales (5yr) 15.9% 8.7% 74%
Net Income (5yr) 27.3% (4.4%) 82%
EPS (5yr) 31.6% 5.1% 82
Dividends (5yr) 15.4% 0.0% 74%
Cash Flow (5yr) (10.6%) (12.4%) 58%
Estimates Qtrly Current
Fiscal
Year
Next
Fiscal
Year
# of Estimates 22 23 22
Current EPS $1.179 $5.449 $6.538
Month Ago EPS $1.130 $5.114 $6.105
# Rev Up 0 1 0
# Rev Down 1 0 1
Three Months Ago EPS $1.120 $4.994 $5.793
Year/Year Chg 29.3% 79.4% 151.7%
Financials KLAC Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Sales (TTM) (Mil) $13,097 $870 87%
Net Income (TTM) (Mil) $4,671 $23 97%
EPS (TTM) $3.552 $0.200 81%
Operating Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) $4,402 $138 94%
Net Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) ($71) $20 16%
Long-Term Debt (Q1) (Mil) $6,094 $81 87%
Enterprise Value (Q1) (Mil) $194,186 $4,557 98%
Valuation KLAC Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
P/B 40.99 5.03 98%
P/E 51.7 56.6 84%
Dividend Yield 0.5% 0.0% 62%
PEG (5yr hist) 1.6 2.4 61%
Ratios KLAC Industry
Median
Percentile
(All Stocks)
Gross Margin 61.3% 44.5% 74%
Net Margin 35.6% 6.8% 93%
ROA 29.1% 2.7% 98%
ROE 95.0% 5.0% 96%
Liabilities to Assets 65.4% 32.1% 60%
F-Score 8 5 94%

KLA Corporation did not pass any screens on 7/31/2026.

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