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KLA Corporation

Semiconductor Equipment · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

$195.45+6.95%
73/100
Overall
MARKET CAP255.31B
52W HIGH$301.71
52W LOW$84.03
VOLUME12.67M
FORWARD P/E29.84
REVENUE GROWTH15.2%
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PRICE ACTION

One-year history

COMPANY SNAPSHOT

What it does

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.

Exchange
NMS
Country
United States
Employees
N/A
Website
https://www.kla.com
YOUNG BULL SCORE

Model breakdown

Momentum58
Technicals83
Fundamentals63
Thematic Fit92

Current v1 weighting: 25% momentum, 25% technicals, 30% fundamentals and 20% thematic fit.

INVESTMENT THESIS

Semiconductor Equipment

Process-control intensity rises with complexity.

WHY NOW

Score changes, earnings revisions and theme-level catalysts will populate this section as the data model expands.

KEY RISK

Valuation compression, execution risk and a breakdown in the underlying thematic demand signal.

FUNDAMENTAL OUTPUT

Financial quality and growth

TRAILING P/E53.40
FORWARD P/E29.84
PRICE / SALES18.80
EV / EBITDA39.60
REVENUE GROWTH15.2%
EARNINGS GROWTH14.7%
GROSS MARGIN61.3%
OPERATING MARGIN42.5%
PROFIT MARGIN35.6%
RETURN ON EQUITY87.5%
FREE CASH FLOWN/A
TOTAL DEBT5.89B
TECHNICAL OUTPUT

Trend structure

20-day return
-9.7%
60-day return
11.0%
200-day return
80.6%
Distance from 52W high
-35.2%
50-day moving average
$221.46
200-day moving average
$163.14
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