KLA Corporation KLAC
Stock research in plain language · As of Oct 04, 2026 · updated once a week, after the trading week closes
What the company does
KLA Corporation is a mega-cap company in the Technology sector (Semiconductor Equipment & Materials), with a market value of $270.0B, 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 56.5 versus 41.5 for the median of the Technology sector in our universe (46 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 233.77, 13% above the current price (their view, not ours).
The stock sits at 52% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).
The risks
- • The stock is 33% below its one-year high.
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 (19 vs 0).
- ✅ Revenue is growing 15% a year.
- ✅ Pays a dividend (0.4% a year).
What changed this week
Over the past week the stock rose 10.1% (for comparison: S&P 500 -0.2%, sector ETF XLK +1.8%).
This week's news
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