KLA Corporation (KLAC)

Wall Street analysts covering KLA Corporation currently rate the stock a Buy on average, with a mean 12-month price target of $233.77 — +24.4% versus the last price of $187.92. Targets reflect analyst opinion, not a guarantee.

8 members of Congress have disclosed trading KLAC — 7 purchases and 4 sales worth an estimated $88,000. Most recent disclosure: Jul 1, 2026.

KLAC's own executives and directors have made 0 open-market purchases ($0) and 16 sales ($76.9M) in the last 90 days, per SEC Form 4 filings. Most recent: Sep 15, 2026.

KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers, reticles/masks, chemicals/materials, integrated circuits (ICs), packaged ICs, and printed circuit boards. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned 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; semiconductor software solutions; KLA Pro systems; and specialty semiconductor manufacturing, benchtop metrology, surface characterization, material strength characterization, and electrical property measurement products. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition and other wafer processing technologies and solutions; direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet, and additive printing, as well as computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions; and components. In addition, the company offers service programs. It serves semiconductor, and semiconductor-related and electronic device manufacturers. The company operates in China, Taiwan, Korea, North America, Japan, Europe, Israel, and rest of Asia. 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.

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• P/E ratio (51.3) — how many dollars you pay for each $1 of KLAC's yearly profit. That's high, so the market expects strong growth (and you're paying up for it).
• ROE (87.50%) — how efficiently the company turns shareholders' money into profit. Above ~20% is considered strong.
• Profit margin (35.57%) — of every $1 in sales, this is what's left as profit after all costs.
• Dividend yield (0.49%) — the cash payout you'd earn per year as a % of the share price, on top of any price gains.