KLA (KLAC) Stock Overview

Provides process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers, reticles/masks, chemicals/materials, integrated circuits (ICs), packaged ICs, and printed circuit boards. More details

KLAC fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	0/6
Future Growth	3/6
Past Performance	5/6
Financial Health	6/6
Dividends	4/6

Rewards

Earnings are forecast to grow 19.03% per year

Earnings have grown 10.2% per year over the past 5 years

Risk Analysis

Shares are highly illiquid

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for KLA
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$8,345.00
52 Week High	US$9,450.00
52 Week Low	US$7,830.00
Beta	1.44
1 Month Change	n/a
3 Month Change	n/a
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	3.28%

Recent News & Updates

No updates

Recent updates

No updates

Shareholder Returns

	KLAC	AR Semiconductor	AR Market
7D	3.2%	0%	0%
1Y	n/a	0%	0%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how KLAC performed against the AR Semiconductor industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how KLAC performed against the AR Market.

Price Volatility

Is KLAC's price volatile compared to industry and market?
KLAC volatility
KLAC Average Weekly Movement	n/a
Semiconductor Industry Average Movement	0%
Market Average Movement	0%
10% most volatile stocks in AR Market	0%
10% least volatile stocks in AR Market	0%

Stable Share Price: KLAC's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months compared to the AR market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine KLAC's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1975	17,100	Rick Wallace	www.kla.com

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.

KLA Corporation Fundamentals Summary

How do KLA's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
KLAC fundamental statistics
Market cap	AR$361.51t
Earnings (TTM)	AR$7.31t
Revenue (TTM)	AR$20.54t

47.9x

P/E Ratio

17.0x

P/S Ratio

Is KLAC overvalued?

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
KLAC income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$13.58b
Cost of Revenue	US$5.26b
Gross Profit	US$8.32b
Other Expenses	US$3.49b
Earnings	US$4.83b

Last Reported Earnings

Jun 30, 2026

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	3.70
Gross Margin	61.30%
Net Profit Margin	35.57%
Debt/Equity Ratio	92.7%

How did KLAC perform over the long term?

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Dividends

0.5%

Current Dividend Yield

22%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/09/10 00:56
End of Day Share Price	2026/09/10 00:00
Earnings	2026/06/30
Annual Earnings	2026/06/30

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more.

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Industry and Sector Metrics

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Analyst Sources

KLA Corporation is covered by 46 analysts. 23 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
James Kelleher	Argus Research Company
Christopher Muse	Barclays
Thomas O'Malley	Barclays