KLA (1KLAC) Stock Price & Analysis
1KLAC Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 142.44 - EUR 144.56
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 18.00 - EUR 263.00
- Previous Close
- EUR 143.16
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 82
- Market Cap
- EUR 183.96B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 256.82B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 4.74B
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 5.99B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 38.1
- Beta
- 1.03
- Next Earnings
- Feb 04, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 1.29
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 0.52%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
High-margin Cash Generation
KLA converts a high proportion of earnings into free cash flow while maintaining exceptional margins. This supports internal funding for capacity, research, and shareholder returns, and gives the company resilience to semiconductor cycles without relying solely on external financing.
Advanced Packaging Growth
Rapid growth in advanced packaging process control gives KLA an expanding opportunity beyond traditional wafer inspection. Increasing sensitivity requirements, hybrid bonding, and logic content can raise inspection intensity and support durable demand for KLA’s specialized portfolio.
Backlog Visibility
Growing backlog and visibility into 2027 improve planning confidence and reduce dependence on short-cycle order timing. Broad customer fab investments and multiple new projects suggest demand is supported by a multiyear capacity buildout rather than a single temporary spending event.
Bears Say
Semiconductor Cyclicality
KLA remains exposed to semiconductor capital-spending cycles, as shown by the 2024 revenue decline before later recovery. A future downturn could reduce customer equipment orders, create earnings volatility, and temporarily weaken cash generation even with strong long-term technology demand.
Memory-cost Margin Pressure
Higher memory costs directly pressure KLA’s equipment economics and can delay the return toward its stated gross-margin target. If elevated pricing persists, it may limit operating leverage and make margin expansion less durable despite strong revenue growth.
Customer Facility Delays
Customer-site readiness issues can defer installations, revenue recognition, and utilization of KLA systems even when underlying demand remains strong. Prolonged construction or power delays could therefore stretch the timing of capacity additions and make quarterly execution less predictable.
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Company Description
KLA
KLA Corporation specializes in creating, manufacturing, and distributing advanced solutions vital for process control, process optimization, and yield enhancement throughout the global semiconductor and broader electronics industries. The company organizes its business into four main segments: Semiconductor Process Control, Specialty Semiconductor Process, PCB, Display and Component Inspection, and an 'Other' category. For integrated circuit (IC) fabrication, KLA offers a comprehensive range of products. These include systems for wafer inspection, review, and metrology; defect inspection and metrology for both wafers/substrates and reticles; chemical and materials quality analysis tools; and real-time process management and wafer handling diagnostics essential for IC and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) production. Furthermore, the company develops software for live process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification. KLA also supplies refurbished and remanufactured equipment. Beyond IC manufacturing, KLA supports specialty semiconductor production. This includes benchtop metrology, surface characterization, and electrical property measurement services suitable for general-purpose and laboratory use. They also provide technologies and solutions for etching, plasma dicing, deposition, and various other wafer processing tasks within the semiconductor and microelectronics sectors. Within the printed circuit board (PCB) market, KLA delivers solutions such as direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, additive printing, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering. For the display industry, their offerings encompass inspection and electrical testing systems to pinpoint and categorize defects, as well as equipment for defect repair. KLA also supplies inspection and metrology systems designed to improve quality control and yield in both advanced and conventional semiconductor packaging markets. Established in 1975, the company was initially known as KLA-Tencor Corporation before rebranding as KLA Corporation in July 2019. Its corporate headquarters are situated in Milpitas, California.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- CEO
- Richard Wallace
- Employees
- 17,100
- Website
- www.kla.com
- Address
- One Technology Drive, Milpitas, CA, 95035, US
KLA (1KLAC) Earnings & Revenues
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1KLAC Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was strongly positive. KLA reported record revenue, record operating margins, substantial free cash flow, strong December-quarter guidance, growing backlog, and improving visibility into 2027. Demand is being driven by AI infrastructure, leading-edge logic, DRAM, HBM, and advanced packaging, while the company is expanding supply-chain and manufacturing capacity. The principal challenges were supply constraints, elevated memory costs, slower China growth, lower legacy-node intensity, and customer facility delays, but management expressed confidence in addressing these issues and sustaining growth.
View all IT:1KLAC earnings summaries1KLAC Net sales Breakdown
- 48.83% Wafer Inspection
- 19.93% Patterning
- 3.70% Specialty Semiconductor Process
- 3.39% PCB, Display and Component Inspection
- 23.02% Services
- 1.13% Other
1KLAC Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| Technical Analysis | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Moving Averages | 1 | 0 | 11 |
