KLA Corporation (KLAC)Technology | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Milpitas, United States | NasdaqGS
1,791.44 USD
+56.59
(3.262%)
⇧
(April 17, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 1,793.85 +2.41 (0.135%) ⇧ (April 17, 2026, 7:59 p.m. EDT) Short-term: ★★★★☆ | Long-term: ★★★★☆ | Dividends: ★★★★☆ |
Hot Take | April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m. EDT
KLAC is currently showing strong short-term momentum with recent price increases and positive analyst sentiment. The stock has a solid dividend yield and a history of increasing dividends, making it an attractive option for income-focused investors. The options data suggests a potential for both bullish and bearish movements, but the overall positive sentiment and strong fundamentals make it a compelling short-term and long-term investment. Investors should consider the recent price action and analyst recommendations while being mindful of the volatility and potential for price swings. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| MSTL ✓ | 0.080711 |
| AutoETS | 0.083457 |
| AutoTheta | 0.124134 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.208028 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 80% |
| H-stat | 0.53 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.174 |
| Excess Kurtosis | 0.09 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Ex Dividend Date | 2026-02-16 |
| Last Dividend Date | 2026-02-16 |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 111.778 |
| Revenue per Share | 96.606 |
| Market Cap | 235,381,473,280 |
| Trailing P/E | 52.08 |
| Forward P/E | 37.20 |
| Beta | 1.44 |
| Profit Margins | 35.76% |
| Website | https://www.kla.com |
As of April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m. EDT: The options data indicates a mixed sentiment with elevated implied volatility (IV) across multiple expirations, suggesting uncertainty or anticipation of significant price movements. There is a notable concentration of open interest (OI) and volume around strikes near the current price, indicating potential for short-term price movements. The presence of major OI walls and volume spikes at various strikes suggests that traders are positioning for both bullish and bearish scenarios. The recent news and analyst upgrades indicate positive sentiment, which could support a bullish outlook in the short term. However, the presence of put options with high IV and OI suggests some caution or hedging against potential downside.
| Last Yield | 1yr Yield | 3yr Avg | 5yr Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.13% | 0.76% | 0.92% | 1.07% |
| Date | Dividend | Yield % |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-17 | 1.90 | 0.129235 |
| 2025-11-17 | 1.90 | 0.167811 |
| 2025-08-18 | 1.90 | 0.215721 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.90 | 0.242666 |
| 2025-02-24 | 1.70 | 0.232234 |
| 2024-11-18 | 1.70 | 0.276780 |
| 2024-08-15 | 1.45 | 0.175601 |
| 2024-05-14 | 1.45 | 0.201535 |
| 2024-02-15 | 1.45 | 0.225947 |
| 2023-11-14 | 1.45 | 0.270848 |
| 2023-08-14 | 1.30 | 0.270556 |
| 2023-05-12 | 1.30 | 0.344147 |
| 2023-02-10 | 1.30 | 0.337707 |
| 2022-11-14 | 1.30 | 0.354729 |
| 2022-08-12 | 1.30 | 0.352874 |
| 2022-05-13 | 1.05 | 0.324082 |
| 2022-02-11 | 1.05 | 0.296269 |
| 2021-11-12 | 1.05 | 0.265406 |
| 2021-08-13 | 1.05 | 0.335387 |
| 2021-05-14 | 0.90 | 0.309270 |
| 2021-02-18 | 0.90 | 0.291694 |
| 2020-11-13 | 0.90 | 0.402822 |
| 2020-08-14 | 0.90 | 0.451395 |
| 2020-05-15 | 0.85 | 0.540875 |
| 2020-02-20 | 0.85 | 0.543910 |
| 2019-11-15 | 0.85 | 0.514144 |
| 2019-08-14 | 0.75 | 0.618393 |
| 2019-05-14 | 0.75 | 0.744088 |
| 2019-02-14 | 0.75 | 0.766245 |
| 2018-11-15 | 0.75 | 0.875373 |
| 2018-08-14 | 0.75 | 0.722748 |
| 2018-05-14 | 0.75 | 0.744159 |
| 2018-02-14 | 0.59 | 0.618231 |
| 2017-11-14 | 0.59 | 0.654133 |
| 2017-08-11 | 0.59 | 0.743952 |
| 2017-05-11 | 0.54 | 0.617670 |
| 2017-02-13 | 0.54 | 0.713841 |
| 2016-11-10 | 0.54 | 0.840850 |
| 2016-08-11 | 0.52 | 0.900103 |
| 2016-05-12 | 0.52 | 0.889628 |
| 2016-02-11 | 0.52 | 0.980986 |
| 2015-11-12 | 0.52 | 0.944256 |
| 2015-08-13 | 0.52 | 1.216534 |
| 2015-05-14 | 0.50 | 1.025429 |
| 2015-02-12 | 0.50 | 0.961022 |
| 2014-11-26 | 16.50 | 30.321029 |
| 2014-11-13 | 0.50 | 0.968608 |
| 2014-08-14 | 0.50 | 1.060128 |
| 2014-05-15 | 0.45 | 1.124874 |
| 2014-02-13 | 0.45 | 1.096750 |
| 2013-11-14 | 0.45 | 1.136463 |
| 2013-08-14 | 0.45 | 1.219691 |
| 2013-05-09 | 0.40 | 1.184566 |
| 2013-02-14 | 0.40 | 1.152877 |
| 2012-11-15 | 0.40 | 1.481388 |
| 2012-08-09 | 0.40 | 1.238582 |
| 2012-05-10 | 0.35 | 1.158846 |
| 2012-02-16 | 0.35 | 1.151352 |
| 2011-11-09 | 0.35 | 1.291877 |
| 2011-08-11 | 0.35 | 1.641277 |
| 2011-05-12 | 0.25 | 0.951416 |
| 2011-02-17 | 0.25 | 0.867181 |
| 2010-11-10 | 0.25 | 1.154964 |
| 2010-08-12 | 0.25 | 1.492545 |
| 2010-05-13 | 0.15 | 0.818759 |
| 2010-02-11 | 0.15 | 0.896127 |
| 2009-11-12 | 0.15 | 0.805191 |
| 2009-08-13 | 0.15 | 0.842785 |
| 2009-05-13 | 0.15 | 1.079050 |
| 2009-02-26 | 0.15 | 1.535500 |
| 2008-11-20 | 0.15 | 1.790033 |
| 2008-08-14 | 0.15 | 0.691884 |
| 2008-05-15 | 0.15 | 0.595754 |
| 2008-02-21 | 0.15 | 0.643914 |
| 2007-11-15 | 0.15 | 0.565150 |
| 2007-08-16 | 0.15 | 0.482041 |
| 2007-05-11 | 0.12 | 0.402398 |
| 2007-02-13 | 0.12 | 0.452990 |
| 2006-11-13 | 0.12 | 0.454364 |
| 2006-08-11 | 0.12 | 0.553607 |
| 2006-05-11 | 0.12 | 0.479234 |
| 2006-02-13 | 0.12 | 0.427472 |
| 2005-11-10 | 0.12 | 0.449253 |
| 2005-08-11 | 0.12 | 0.464141 |
| 2005-04-28 | 0.12 | 0.569006 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 1.7945392 |
| Address1 | One Technology Drive |
| All Time High | 1,798.0 |
| All Time Low | 0.604167 |
| Ask | 1,791.94 |
| Ask Size | 2 |
| Audit Risk | 3 |
| Average Analyst Rating | 2.0 - Buy |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 794,420 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 1,080,901 |
| Average Volume | 1,080,901 |
| Average Volume10Days | 794,420 |
| Beta | 1.435 |
| Bid | 1,787.85 |
| Bid Size | 1 |
| Board Risk | 3 |
| Book Value | 41.678 |
| City | Milpitas |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 4 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 1,791.44 |
| Current Ratio | 2.828 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,774,915,200 |
| Day High | 1,791.75 |
| Day Low | 1,744.29 |
| Debt To Equity | 111.778 |
| Display Name | KLA |
| Dividend Date | 1,772,496,000 |
| Dividend Rate | 7.6 |
| Dividend Yield | 0.42 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,777,496,400 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,777,496,400 |
| Earnings Growth | 0.409 |
| Earnings Quarterly Growth | 0.39 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,777,492,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,777,492,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,777,492,800 |
| Ebitda | 5,742,102,016 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.45055 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 41.051 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 18.495 |
| Enterprise Value | 235,717,902,336 |
| Eps Current Year | 36.7375 |
| Eps Forward | 48.1593 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | 34.4 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Ex Dividend Date | 1,771,286,400 |
| Exchange | NMS |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | 408 875 4875 |
| Fifty Day Average | 1,506.9464 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 284.49353 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.18878809 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 179.45392 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 1,798.0 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -6.5600586 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.003648531 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 607.7 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 1,183.74 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 1.9479018 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 607.7 - 1798.0 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 339,859,800,000 |
| Five Year Avg Dividend Yield | 0.97 |
| Float Shares | 130,768,581 |
| Forward Eps | 48.1593 |
| Forward P E | 37.19821 |
| Free Cashflow | 3,222,999,808 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGS |
| Full Time Employees | 15,000 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,775,001,600 |
| Gross Margins | 0.61574 |
| Gross Profits | 7,847,356,928 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.00102 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.94488 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 131,392,338 |
| Industry | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials |
| Industry Disp | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials |
| Industry Key | semiconductor-equipment-materials |
| Ir Website | http://ir.kla-tencor.com/ |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Dividend Date | 1,771,286,400 |
| Last Dividend Value | 1.9 |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,751,241,600 |
| Last Split Date | 948,240,000 |
| Last Split Factor | 2:1 |
| Long Business Summary | 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. |
| Long Name | KLA Corporation |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 235,381,473,280 |
| Market State | POSTPOST |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_282225 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,767,139,200 |
| Net Income To Common | 4,557,986,816 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,782,777,600 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 227,398,258,593 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 29 |
| Open | 1,771.26 |
| Operating Cashflow | 4,766,347,776 |
| Operating Margins | 0.41313 |
| Overall Risk | 5 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.21540001 |
| Peg Ratio | 1.92 |
| Phone | 408 875 3000 |
| Post Market Change | 2.4100342 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.13453056 |
| Post Market Price | 1,793.85 |
| Post Market Time | 1,776,470,395 |
| Previous Close | 1,734.85 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 48.763252 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 42.982864 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 18.469097 |
| Profit Margins | 0.35764 |
| Quick Ratio | 1.852 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | buy |
| Recommendation Mean | 1.96774 |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 56.59 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 3.26195 |
| Regular Market Day High | 1,791.75 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 1,744.29 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 1,744.29 - 1791.75 |
| Regular Market Open | 1,771.26 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 1,734.85 |
| Regular Market Price | 1,791.44 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,776,456,001 |
| Regular Market Volume | 717,500 |
| Return On Assets | 0.21087 |
| Return On Equity | 1.00726 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.072 |
| Revenue Per Share | 96.606 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.36506534 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 8 |
| Shares Outstanding | 131,076,611 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.0242 |
| Shares Short | 3,176,233 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,772,150,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 2,947,691 |
| Short Name | KLA Corporation |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.027 |
| Short Ratio | 3.19 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | KLAC |
| Target High Price | 2,000.0 |
| Target Low Price | 1,350.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 1,700.3103 |
| Target Median Price | 1,700.0 |
| Total Cash | 5,207,463,936 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 39.728 |
| Total Debt | 6,109,477,888 |
| Total Revenue | 12,744,611,840 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 7.4 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0042654984 |
| Trailing Eps | 34.4 |
| Trailing P E | 52.07674 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | 1.9235 |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 1,211.6447 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 579.7953 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.47851926 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 717,500 |
| Website | https://www.kla.com |
| Zip | 95,035 |