KLA Corporation KLAC

What the company does

KLA Corporation is a large-cap company in the Technology sector (Semiconductor Equipment & Materials), with a market value of $190.0B, based in the USA.

It employs about 17,000 people and has been listed since Oct 08, 1980.

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.

Cheap or expensive? priced in line with its group

Its price-to-earnings (P/E) is 40.3 versus 38.7 for the median of the Technology sector in our universe (65 companies) — priced in line with its group.

Revenue is growing 15% versus the same quarter last year.

On analysts' next-year forecasts the multiple drops to 34.8 — they expect higher earnings.

The average analyst price target is 232.38, 60% above the current price (their view, not ours).

The stock sits at 19% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).

The risks

• • The stock is more volatile than average (beta 1.4) — big daily moves both ways.
• • The stock is 53% below its one-year high.
• • Quarterly report in 3 days (2026-10-28) — a day the stock can move a lot.

Strengths

• ✅ Profitable — 37 of every 100 dollars of revenue stays as profit.
• ✅ Generates free cash flow — profit becomes cash in the bank.
• ✅ Most analysts rate it buy (20 vs 0).
• ✅ Revenue is growing 15% a year.
• ✅ Pays a dividend (0.5% a year).

What changed this week

Over the past week the stock fell 12.2% (for comparison: S&P 500 -0.4%, sector ETF XLK -0.1%).

This week's news

• 3 market-beating stocks to target this week finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-23
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• The Trouble for Lam Research, Applied Materials, and KLA Stock Could Be Just Getting Started finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-23
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  Lam Research, Applied Materials, and KLA are all under pressure. Citi believes there’s even more downside potential after the three stocks have booked big declines as of late. Continue Reading source ↗

• Should KLAC Stock Be in Your Portfolio Pre-Q1 Earnings Results? finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-23
  What the article says

  KLA KLAC is set to report its first-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Oct. 28. For the to-be-reported quarter, KLAC expects revenues of $4 billion, plus/minus $200 million. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $4.05 billion, indicating an increase of 26.09% from the year-ago quarter's reported figure.… source ↗

• Analysts Estimate Alps Alpine Co Ltd. - Unsponsored ADR (APELY) to Report a Decline in Earnings: What to Look Out for finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-23
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  Wall Street expects a year-over-year decline in earnings on lower revenues when Alps Alpine Co Ltd. - Unsponsored ADR (APELY) reports results for the quarter ended September 2026. While this widely-known consensus outlook is important in gauging the company's earnings picture, a powerful factor that could impact its… source ↗

• Down 21.0% in 4 Weeks, Here's Why KLA (KLAC) Looks Ripe for a Turnaround finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-23
  What the article says

  KLA (KLAC) has been beaten down lately with too much selling pressure. While the stock has lost 21% over the past four weeks, there is light at the end of the tunnel as it is now in oversold territory and Wall Street analysts expect the company to report better earnings than they predicted earlier. We use Relative… source ↗

What changed since last week

• New risk flag: high volatility.

• The price fell 18.6% since the last summary.