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 $231.78 — +11.3% versus the last price of $208.25. 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 14 sales ($55.5M) in the last 90 days, per SEC Form 4 filings. Most recent: Aug 11, 2026.

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.

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• P/E ratio (54.7) — 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 (0.46%) — the cash payout you'd earn per year as a % of the share price, on top of any price gains.