KLAC · KLA Corp
Price
Snapshot
50 fields · last close| Market Cap | $270.0B |
| P/E | 55.89 |
| Float | 1.30B |
| Beta | 1.45 |
| Volatility | 36.4% |
| Exchange | NASDAQ |
| Sector | Semiconductors |
| Cap tier | Mega cap |
| Macro sensitivity | High |
| Clavix score | 45.6 |
| Price | 206.89 |
| Change | +0.00% |
| Prev Close | 206.89 |
| Open | 207.81 |
| Day Low | 204.06 |
| Day High | 208.68 |
| Avg Vol | 8 |
| Avg $ Vol | $1.70B |
| 52W High | 307.37 |
| 52W Low | 98.10 |
| 52W Pos | 52.0% |
| From High | −32.69% |
| From Low | +110.90% |
| Max DD 1Y | −44.53% |
| Spread | 0.10% |
| Liquidity | Deep |
| SMA 20 | +12.17% |
| SMA 50 | +10.51% |
| SMA 200 | +16.35% |
| RSI (14) | 67.2 |
| Vol 30D | 44.4% |
| Vol 90D | 75.0% |
| 1Y Range | 98–307 |
| Daily bars | 526 |
| Perf Week | +10.09% |
| Perf Month | +20.10% |
| Perf Quarter | −11.32% |
| Perf Half Y | +36.40% |
| Perf Year | +83.27% |
| Perf YTD | +62.33% |
| Prev Day | +0.00% |
| Clavix | D |
| Debt / Eq | 0.93 |
| Curr Ratio | 2.88 |
| Int Cover | 20.7× |
| FCF Margin | 27.7% |
| Rev Growth | +11.7% |
| Profit | Profitable |
| Leverage | Moderate |
| Sector rank | 20 / 52 |
What KLAC does
KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide.
The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection.
It offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for 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; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk.
The company also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry.
In addition, it offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets.
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.
Clavix risk grade
regraded every trading dayKLAC grades D, 45.6 of 100. Steadiest on News Sentiment (55), most exposed on Macro Resilience (29, weak). 4 of the 4 weighted dimensions sit above the Semiconductors median. Ranks 20 of 52 in Semiconductors by Clavix score.
How rough the ride is
| KLAC | Semiconductors median | |
|---|---|---|
| Betavs the overall market · lower is steadier | 1.45 | 1.89 |
| Volatilityannualized | 36.4% | 47.2% |
| Max drawdown, past yearworst peak-to-trough fall | −44.5% | — |
| Typical daily movemedian absolute daily change | 2.03% | — |
| Days beyond ±3%of the last 252 sessions | 90 (36%) | — |
How its days are spread
Daily returns over the last 252 sessions in 1% bins. Moves beyond ±6% land in the end bins.
52-week range
The bar runs from the lowest to the highest close of the last 252 sessions; the marker is the latest close.
Drawdown from the 1-year peak
Percent below the running high over the last 12 months. Zero is a fresh high.
Market sensitivity
| KLAC | Semiconductors median | |
|---|---|---|
| Beta to the markethow much it swings with the S&P 500 · lower is safer | 1.45 | 1.89 |
| Macro sensitivityrate, dollar and credit exposure bucket | High | Very High 62% of 52 |
Where it sits on the macro scale
Low means rates, the dollar and credit spreads barely move it. Very High means they drive a large share of its swings. The counts are how many Semiconductors names sit in each bucket.
Where it ranks in its sector
Rank by Clavix score within the sector. Right is the top of the sector.
Price performance
| KLAC | |
|---|---|
| 1 week | +10.1% |
| 1 month | +20.1% |
| Year to date | +62.3% |
| 1 year | +83.3% |
Context for the rank, not itself a risk measure.
Recent coverage, scored
| KLAC | |
|---|---|
| Articles scoredthe most recent scored coverage, up to 30 | 30 since 14 Aug |
| Average score0 most bearish, 100 most bullish | 63 |
| Bullish · bearisharticles above 60 · below 40 | 20 · 5 |
| Directionarticles whose tone is improving vs worsening | 20 ↑ 5 ↓ |
Where the article scores land
Each bar is a 10-point band of article scores. Below 40 reads bearish, above 60 bullish.
Balance sheet, against the sector
The shaded band is the middle half of the 52 Semiconductors names Clavix covers; the tick is the sector median.
Growth
| KLAC | |
|---|---|
| Revenue growthyear over year | +11.7% |
Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade. Why
0–100, higher is safer. The tick on each bar is the Semiconductors median. Click a dimension for the evidence behind it. Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade.
Recent news
most recent scored articles · the chip is the article’s score · click to openAn article compares three AI-benefiting companies, Lumentum, KLA, and NetApp, and how each achieved higher profit margins: Lumentum through factory efficiency, NetApp by passing on memory costs, and KLA through competitive moats. The article is cut off and provides no specific financial details or news about KLA.
The article discusses an expected $229 billion in spending on chipmaking equipment by chip companies before Nvidia ships its next GPU, but the body text provided is too short to establish any specific company development.
An analyst has reiterated a buy rating on KLA, saying the recent drop in the stock's price is a chance to buy. The note cites company targets of $26 billion in revenue by 2030, stable profit margins, and a plan to return more than 90% of free cash to shareholders through dividends and buybacks by 2030.
Singapore is expanding its semiconductor research and development partnerships with Applied Materials, KLA, GlobalFoundries, and others, focusing on advanced packaging and silicon photonics. The country has also launched 'SG Semiconductor' as a national brand for its chip industry.
KLA is highlighted in new research for its central role in semiconductor metrology, the measurement and inspection of chips during manufacturing. The article notes growing market opportunity as chip designs become more complex and advanced process nodes (smaller, more advanced chip-making technologies) spread, and says KLA is investing in R&D and partnerships to build AI-driven metrology and inspection tools that improve manufacturing precision and yield.
Nearest peers by size
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TXN | Texas Instruments Inc | B- | $268.3B | 44.33 | 1.42 | Compare |
| MRVL | Marvell Technology Inc | F | $238.8B | 90.45 | 2.28 | Compare |
| ADI | Analog Devices Inc | B- | $202.1B | 48.88 | 1.28 | Compare |
| QCOM | Qualcomm Inc | D+ | $194.2B | 20.97 | 1.77 | Compare |
| AMAT | Applied Materials Inc | D | $428.6B | 46.25 | 1.63 | Compare |
| LRCX | Lam Research Corp | D | $434.9B | 59.85 | 1.97 | Compare |
| INTC | Intel Corp | D- | $630.8B | — | 2.35 | Compare |
| MPWR | Monolithic Power Systems Inc | C- | $70.75B | 87.95 | 1.73 | Compare |
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