The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

KLAC

Concerning the House

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.

United States · www.kla.com

The Long Run

FY 2011–2025 · 15 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$9.81B+14.2%
Gross profit$981.14M+19.1%
Operating income$187.98M+132.5%
Net income$4.06B+23.5%
Cash from ops$4.08B+12.1%
Quotation

$209.37

+1.12 (+0.5%)

52w hi$301.71
52w lo$84.03
Vol8.49M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.21

Short-0.19
Medium+0.48
Long+0.47

computed 2026-08-12

By the Numbers

KLA Corporation

Technology · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials

Market cap$273.55B
Enterprise value$273.34B
Trailing P/E57.05x
Forward P/E31.86x
EV / EBITDA45.14x
P / S (ttm)20.14x
Profit margin35.6%
Return on equity87.5%
Revenue growth+15.2%
Earnings growth+13.8%
Debt / equity96.88
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX2.07
Corr SPX0.64
Annual vol52.8%
Annual ret+65.2%
Sharpe1.24
Max DD-43.6%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.18
Sector+0.19
Technical-0.05
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-12

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$208.53$214.80$207.00$209.378.49M
Aug 12$210.10$210.27$205.22$208.2511.95M
Aug 11$198.67$203.15$195.00$200.478.10M
Aug 10$204.78$205.06$192.47$192.7410.32M
Aug 7$197.98$201.83$195.05$198.118.97M