KLAC · Technology
What a holder would want to know before buying KLAC: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 99% above the lowest point of the past year and 35% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 79% of days and more expensive on 21%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 98% of days.
9% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 8 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 45%; the longest took 16 months to get back to its peak. 7 of 8 have recovered so far.
It is in one now: 35% below the Jun 2026 peak.
KLA Corporation · Technology · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials · a mega-cap worth $255.22B
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…
revenue profit
Sales of $13.58B in 2026, with $4.83B of profit. Sales grew in 2 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 36 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 2.3 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $53 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $29 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 0.47% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 17.
30 analysts: 20 say buy, 9 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $232.77 (range $175.00–$325.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 20 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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