Nasdaq 100

KLAC

KLA Corporation, Technology

$157.91

−5.69% on the day

Close of Fri, Oct 30, 2026

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47 long, 53 short

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47 long, 53 short

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Guy Spier93/100AskLong: #8 of 100 on Guy Spier's long-minus-short score (0.63).
Brad Gerstner91/100AskLong: #10 of 100 on Brad Gerstner's long-minus-short score (0.26).
Peter Thiel91/100AskLong: #10 of 100 on Peter Thiel's long-minus-short score (0.689).

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Bill Ruane87/100AskLong: #14 of 100 on Bill Ruane's long-minus-short score (0.416).
Chuck Akre85/100AskLong: #16 of 100 on Chuck Akre's long-minus-short score (0.412).
Josh Brown82/100AskLong: #19 of 100 on Josh Brown's long-minus-short score (0.4).
Li Lu82/100AskLong: #19 of 100 on Li Lu's long-minus-short score (0.3).
Philip Fisher81/100AskLong: #20 of 100 on Philip Fisher's long-minus-short score (0.3).
Gerald Loeb80/100AskLong: #21 of 100 on Gerald Loeb's long-minus-short score (0.383).
Charlie Munger79/100AskLong: #22 of 100 on Charlie Munger's long-minus-short score (0.3).
Jim Cramer79/100AskLong: #22 of 100 on Jim Cramer's long-minus-short score (0.29).
Nancy Pelosi (household)79/100AskLong: #22 of 100 on Nancy Pelosi (household)'s long-minus-short score (0.344).
T. Rowe Price79/100AskLong: #22 of 100 on T. Rowe Price's long-minus-short score (0.217).
Terry Smith78/100AskLong: #23 of 100 on Terry Smith's long-minus-short score (0.351).
Warren Buffett77/100AskLong: #24 of 100 on Warren Buffett's long-minus-short score (0.236).
Ed Seykota74/100AskLong: #27 of 100 on Ed Seykota's long-minus-short score (0.373).
William O'Neil74/100AskLong: #27 of 100 on William O'Neil's long-minus-short score (0.178).
Gerald Tsai73/100AskLong: #28 of 100 on Gerald Tsai's long-minus-short score (0.237).
Nicolas Darvas73/100AskLong: #28 of 100 on Nicolas Darvas's long-minus-short score (0.202).
Will Danoff73/100AskLong: #28 of 100 on Will Danoff's long-minus-short score (0.295).
Mark Minervini72/100AskLong: #29 of 100 on Mark Minervini's long-minus-short score (0.15).
Chase Coleman71/100AskLong: #30 of 100 on Chase Coleman's long-minus-short score (0.195).
Linda Raschke71/100AskLong: #30 of 100 on Linda Raschke's long-minus-short score (0.105).
Stanley Druckenmiller70/100AskLong: #31 of 100 on Stanley Druckenmiller's long-minus-short score (0.212).
Jack Bogle69/100AskLong: #32 of 100 on Jack Bogle's long-minus-short score (0.367).
Jeff Ubben69/100AskLong: #32 of 100 on Jeff Ubben's long-minus-short score (0.195).
Dave Portnoy64/100AskLong: #37 of 100 on Dave Portnoy's long-minus-short score (0.107).
Julian Robertson64/100AskLong: #37 of 100 on Julian Robertson's long-minus-short score (0.131).
Ron Baron64/100AskLong: #37 of 100 on Ron Baron's long-minus-short score (0.139).
Mark Cuban63/100AskLong: #38 of 100 on Mark Cuban's long-minus-short score (0.071).
Jeremy Siegel62/100AskLong: #39 of 100 on Jeremy Siegel's long-minus-short score (0.128).
Bill Ackman61/100AskLong: #40 of 100 on Bill Ackman's long-minus-short score (0.086).
Fred Alger61/100AskLong: #40 of 100 on Fred Alger's long-minus-short score (0.052).
Martin Zweig61/100AskLong: #40 of 100 on Martin Zweig's long-minus-short score (0.041).
Philippe Laffont61/100AskLong: #40 of 100 on Philippe Laffont's long-minus-short score (0.112).
George Soros60/100AskLong: #41 of 100 on George Soros's long-minus-short score (0.133).
Joel Greenblatt60/100AskLong: #41 of 100 on Joel Greenblatt's long-minus-short score (0.143).
Tom Gayner60/100AskLong: #41 of 100 on Tom Gayner's long-minus-short score (0.319).
Jesse Livermore56/100AskLong: #45 of 100 on Jesse Livermore's long-minus-short score (0.078).
Cliff Asness53/100AskLong: #48 of 100 on Cliff Asness's long-minus-short score (0.059).
Josh Peters53/100AskLong: #48 of 100 on Josh Peters's long-minus-short score (0.075).
Kevin O'Leary53/100AskLong: #48 of 100 on Kevin O'Leary's long-minus-short score (0.056).
Carson Block52/100AskLong: #49 of 100 on Carson Block's long-minus-short score (0.104).
Whitney Tilson51/100AskLong: #50 of 100 on Whitney Tilson's long-minus-short score (0.032).
Ken Fisher48/100AskShort: #48 of 50 shorts on Ken Fisher's long-minus-short score (0.011).
Jim Chanos44/100AskShort: #45 of 50 shorts on Jim Chanos's long-minus-short score (-0.032).
Aswath Damodaran43/100AskShort: #44 of 50 shorts on Aswath Damodaran's long-minus-short score (-0.025).

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Paul Singer6/100AskShort: #7 of 50 shorts on Paul Singer's long-minus-short score (-0.433).
Jeff Smith7/100AskShort: #8 of 50 shorts on Jeff Smith's long-minus-short score (-0.557).
Michael Price7/100AskShort: #8 of 50 shorts on Michael Price's long-minus-short score (-0.522).

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Keith Gill8/100AskShort: #9 of 50 shorts on Keith Gill's long-minus-short score (-0.457).
Seth Klarman9/100AskShort: #10 of 50 shorts on Seth Klarman's long-minus-short score (-0.405).
Bill Miller11/100AskShort: #12 of 50 shorts on Bill Miller's long-minus-short score (-0.316).
John Paulson11/100AskShort: #12 of 50 shorts on John Paulson's long-minus-short score (-0.309).
Walter Schloss11/100AskShort: #12 of 50 shorts on Walter Schloss's long-minus-short score (-0.555).
Paul Tudor Jones13/100AskShort: #14 of 50 shorts on Paul Tudor Jones's long-minus-short score (-0.441).
Dan Loeb16/100AskShort: #17 of 50 shorts on Dan Loeb's long-minus-short score (-0.338).
Ray Dalio16/100AskShort: #17 of 50 shorts on Ray Dalio's long-minus-short score (-0.308).
Jim Rogers17/100AskShort: #18 of 50 shorts on Jim Rogers's long-minus-short score (-0.284).
Harry Markowitz18/100AskShort: #19 of 50 shorts on Harry Markowitz's long-minus-short score (-0.435).
Steve Kuhn18/100AskShort: #19 of 50 shorts on Steve Kuhn's long-minus-short score (-0.377).
David Dreman19/100AskShort: #20 of 50 shorts on David Dreman's long-minus-short score (-0.409).
Nick Sleep19/100AskShort: #20 of 50 shorts on Nick Sleep's long-minus-short score (-0.159).
Rob Arnott19/100AskShort: #20 of 50 shorts on Rob Arnott's long-minus-short score (-0.354).
Carl Icahn20/100AskShort: #21 of 50 shorts on Carl Icahn's long-minus-short score (-0.316).
David Einhorn20/100AskShort: #21 of 50 shorts on David Einhorn's long-minus-short score (-0.355).
John Templeton20/100AskShort: #21 of 50 shorts on John Templeton's long-minus-short score (-0.365).
Bill Fleckenstein21/100AskShort: #22 of 50 shorts on Bill Fleckenstein's long-minus-short score (-0.443).
Michael Burry21/100AskShort: #22 of 50 shorts on Michael Burry's long-minus-short score (-0.324).
Benjamin Graham23/100AskShort: #24 of 50 shorts on Benjamin Graham's long-minus-short score (-0.251).
Nate Anderson23/100AskShort: #24 of 50 shorts on Nate Anderson's long-minus-short score (-0.193).
James O'Shaughnessy24/100AskShort: #25 of 50 shorts on James O'Shaughnessy's long-minus-short score (-0.219).
Mohnish Pabrai24/100AskShort: #25 of 50 shorts on Mohnish Pabrai's long-minus-short score (-0.352).
John Maynard Keynes26/100AskShort: #27 of 50 shorts on John Maynard Keynes's long-minus-short score (-0.33).
Richard Dennis26/100AskShort: #27 of 50 shorts on Richard Dennis's long-minus-short score (-0.169).
Ed Thorp27/100AskShort: #28 of 50 shorts on Ed Thorp's long-minus-short score (-0.229).
Mario Gabelli27/100AskShort: #28 of 50 shorts on Mario Gabelli's long-minus-short score (-0.244).
Martin Shkreli28/100AskShort: #29 of 50 shorts on Martin Shkreli's long-minus-short score (-0.171).
Fama and French29/100AskShort: #30 of 50 shorts on Fama and French's long-minus-short score (-0.188).
Kyle Bass29/100AskShort: #30 of 50 shorts on Kyle Bass's long-minus-short score (-0.117).
David Shaw30/100AskShort: #31 of 50 shorts on David Shaw's long-minus-short score (-0.093).
Nelson Peltz30/100AskShort: #31 of 50 shorts on Nelson Peltz's long-minus-short score (-0.176).
Ken Griffin32/100AskShort: #33 of 50 shorts on Ken Griffin's long-minus-short score (-0.079).
Steve Cohen32/100AskShort: #33 of 50 shorts on Steve Cohen's long-minus-short score (-0.112).
Jeremy Grantham33/100AskShort: #34 of 50 shorts on Jeremy Grantham's long-minus-short score (-0.067).
Louis Bacon33/100AskShort: #34 of 50 shorts on Louis Bacon's long-minus-short score (-0.07).
Richard Driehaus34/100AskShort: #35 of 50 shorts on Richard Driehaus's long-minus-short score (-0.131).
Howard Marks36/100AskShort: #37 of 50 shorts on Howard Marks's long-minus-short score (-0.097).
Geraldine Weiss40/100AskShort: #41 of 50 shorts on Geraldine Weiss's long-minus-short score (-0.135).
John Neff40/100AskShort: #41 of 50 shorts on John Neff's long-minus-short score (-0.072).
Chamath Palihapitiya43/100AskShort: #44 of 50 shorts on Chamath Palihapitiya's long-minus-short score (-0.074).
Jim Simons44/100AskShort: #45 of 50 shorts on Jim Simons's long-minus-short score (-0.026).
Marc Cohodes46/100AskShort: #46 of 50 shorts on Marc Cohodes's long-minus-short score (0.005).
Thomas Russo46/100AskShort: #46 of 50 shorts on Thomas Russo's long-minus-short score (-0.086).
Cathie Wood48/100AskShort: #48 of 50 shorts on Cathie Wood's long-minus-short score (-0.011).
Dennis Lynch48/100AskShort: #48 of 50 shorts on Dennis Lynch's long-minus-short score (0.041).
Lowell Miller48/100AskShort: #48 of 50 shorts on Lowell Miller's long-minus-short score (-0.016).
Michael Steinhardt49/100AskShort: #49 of 50 shorts on Michael Steinhardt's long-minus-short score (-0.013).
Peter Lynch49/100AskShort: #49 of 50 shorts on Peter Lynch's long-minus-short score (-0.014).
Bruce Kovner52/100AskLong: #49 of 100 on Bruce Kovner's long-minus-short score (0.057).

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−19.0% over 1M

2026-09-302026-10-152026-10-30

Market cap$206.1B

Last close$157.91

Day move−5.69%

SectorTechnology

About

Semiconductor Equipment & Materials, 17,000 employees

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.

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KLAC Stock: How Export Controls Could Threaten $600M China OrdersDenver Stock Lab, Tue, Jun 16

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Earnings

Source: Nasdaq and Zacks consensus

Beat the forecast in 3 of the last 4 quarters.

Sep 2026, Oct 28Beat+3.4%EPS $1.22 vs $1.18 expectedStock +9.0% around it
Jun 2026, Jul 28Beat+5.0%EPS $1.05 vs $1.00 expectedStock −16.3% around it
Mar 2026, Apr 29Beat+2.2%EPS $0.94 vs $0.92 expectedStock −3.2% around it
Dec 2025, Jan 29In lineEPS $0.88 vs $0.88 expectedStock −12.2% around it

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Financials

Last 8 quarters

Quarter ending	Jun 2026*	Mar 2026	Dec 2025	Sep 2025	Jun 2025*	Mar 2025	Dec 2024	Sep 2024
Revenue	$3.7B	$3.4B	$3.3B	$3.2B	$3.2B	$3.1B	$3.1B	$2.8B
Gross margin	61.4%	61.1%	61.4%	61.3%	62.0%	61.6%	60.3%	59.6%
Operating margin	—

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CheapEarnings, book value, cash flow vs price24
GrowingRevenue and earnings growth59
QualityHigh return on equity, fat margins, little debt85
TrendPast year, skipping last month77
PayoutsDividends and buybacks55
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P/E42.7price ÷ last 12 months' earnings

EPS$3.70earnings a share, 12 months

Revenue growth+11.7%last fiscal year over the one before

Dividend yield0.54%paid over the past year, at today's price

52-week range$109.71–$301.71lowest to highest close

Beta2.12a year against the Nasdaq 100's average stock; 1 moves with it

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Measure	KLAC	Higher than
Earnings yield (earnings ÷ price)	2.3%	37%
Book yield (book value ÷ price)	3.1%	10%
Free cash flow yield	1.8%	31%
Buyback yield	1.1%	57%
Revenue growth, a year	11.7%	48%
EPS growth, a year	20.4%	56%
Return on equity	76.1%	94%
Return on assets	26.9%	91%
Net margin	35.6%	92%
Liabilities ÷ assets	64.6%	71%
Past year, skipping last month	63.0%	77%
Past 6 months, skipping last month	16.3%	69%
Volatility, a year's worth	51.3%	69%

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