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KLA Corporation

Semiconductor Equipment · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

$183.97+3.94%
66/100
Overall
MARKET CAP246.05B
FORWARD P/E32.79
PEG RATIO1.692
REVENUE GROWTH15.2%
OPERATING MARGIN42.5%
52W RANGE$97.75$301.37
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INTERACTIVE PRICE CHART

Trend and moving averages

RELATIVE PERFORMANCE

KLAC versus SPY and SMH

Indexed to 100
LIVE MODEL SCORE

Cross-sectional ranking

Momentum57
Technicals53
Fundamentals67
Thematic Fit92

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YOUNG BULL THESIS

Semiconductor Equipment

Process-control intensity rises with complexity.

MODEL READ

Overall score: 66.2. Last ranked 2026-09-22.

QUARTERLY FUNDAMENTALS

Revenue and earnings power

TRAILING P/E48.36
PRICE / SALES17.03
EV / EBITDA37.0
BOOK VALUE4.858
GROSS MARGIN61.3%
PROFIT MARGIN35.6%
RETURN ON EQUITY87.5%
FREE CASH FLOW2.62B
COMPANY SNAPSHOT

What it does

KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers, reticles/masks, chemicals/materials, integrated circuits (ICs), packaged ICs, and printed circuit boards. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned 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; semiconductor software solutions; KLA Pro systems; and specialty semiconductor manufacturing, benchtop metrology, surface characterization, material strength characterization, and electrical property measurement products. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition and other wafer processing technologies and solutions; direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet, and additive printing, as well as computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions; and components. In addition, the company offers service programs. It serves semiconductor, and semiconductor-related and electronic device manufacturers. The company operates in China, Taiwan, Korea, North America, Japan, Europe, Israel, and rest of Asia. 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.

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