KLAC · Nasdaq · Technology · Semiconductor Equipment and Materials
Next earnings: November 4, 2026
$187.92+0.4%Sep 25 close
KLA makes equipment and software that help manufacturers find defects and control quality while producing chips, packages and circuit boards.
Shares of revenue are estimates for quarter ended 2026-03-31, not figures from a filing.
Wafer and mask inspection systems
Machines such as Surfscan and Teron inspect silicon wafers and chip-making masks to find and examine defects.
Wafer measurement systems
Machines such as Archer and SpectraShape measure features including pattern dimensions, film thickness and alignment between layers on a wafer.
Process-control software and sensors
Klarity software analyzes manufacturing data to help identify defects and adjust processes; SensArray sensors collect information about conditions inside chip-making equipment.
Chemical process-control equipment
Equipment such as QualiSurf checks chemicals used in manufacturing and monitors their condition and use.
Specialty wafer-processing equipment
SPTS and Primaxx equipment uses processes such as etching and deposition to make specialized semiconductor devices.
Circuit-board and packaged-chip inspection equipment
Orbotech equipment inspects and measures printed circuit boards and chip packages, and can help create circuit patterns on boards and substrates.
Three ratings, each a percentile against the 30 companies we cover in Semiconductor Equipment and Materials. Deliberately kept apart rather than blended into one score — cheap, rising and well-run are three different facts, and a single number would hide which one is which.
Middle of its industry
The most recent month is left out on purpose: returns tend to persist over 7–12 months and the newest one tends to reverse. This describes what the price has done, and says nothing about what it will do.
Below most of its industry
Yields, so higher means cheaper — a loss-making company ranks last instead of dropping out. Cheap is not the same as good: a high yield is often a price that fell for a reason. All five measures available.
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What management does with the money — scored on whatever the filings answer, never as a share of the total.
A description of where this company sits among its competitors, not a recommendation. Ratings updated Sep 26, 2026.
KLA sells machines that inspect and measure silicon wafers, chip-making masks, packaged chips and circuit boards during manufacturing. Its software analyzes information from those machines to help customers identify defects and adjust production. KLA also sells chip-processing equipment and services that maintain and support its machines at customer sites.
Built from KLA Corp.’s own filings with the SEC. Figures are as reported, with per-share history restated onto today’s share basis. This describes a business — it is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
Is the business getting bigger, and does it generate real cash?
Showing 2 of 41 quarters of KLA Corp.’s grade history. The other 39 go back to September 2016.