Headquartered in Milpitas, CA Fiscal year ends June NASDAQ: KLAC kla.com
KLA Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. The company provides advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, and printed circuit boards. KLA operates through three reportable segments: Semiconductor Process Control, which is the dominant revenue contributor providing inspection and metrology solutions for semiconductor manufacturing; Specialty Semiconductor Process, which serves specialty semiconductor markets; and PCB and Component Inspection, which provides inspection solutions for printed circuit boards and related components. The company collaborates closely with leading semiconductor manufacturers globally, with its expert teams of physicists, engineers, and data scientists designing solutions critical to advancing semiconductor technology. KLA is positioned on the critical path of AI infrastructure expansion, benefiting from increasing complexity in leading-edge foundry/logic and memory designs as well as growing demand in advanced packaging. Updated
Icahn Enterprises is the biggest payer today, sending shareholders about $355 million, or 50 cents a share, on September 23. KLA is close behind at roughly $300 million, with Carlyle Group, Gen Digital and Reynolds Consumer Products also paying out.
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KLA Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. The company provides advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, and printed circuit boards.
24/7 Wall St.'s 12-month price target for KLAC is $237.70, rated Buy. The Wall Street consensus target is $232.77. KLAC price prediction →
