KLA Corp. (KLAC)
Technology · NASDAQ · US
Price as at 1 Sept 2026, 17:17 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
KLA Corp. trades at $169.34, which is 45% above the $92.75 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 94 out of 100, which is a wide moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 65.4 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
KLAC dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.650 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.740 | 4 |
| 2024 | $0.605 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.535 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.470 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.390 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.350 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.310 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.284 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.226 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.210 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
KLAC earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 29 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About KLA Corp.
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.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
KLAC passes 4 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
20 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Capital Research Global, Capital Research Global Investors$2.94B · 0.4% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$1.42B · 0.6% of book
- Parnassus Investments, PARNASSUS INVESTMENTS, LLC$1.33B · 3.5% of book
- Jeremy Grantham, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC$1.17B · 2.6% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$766.67M · 0.1% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is KLA Corp. (KLAC) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $92.75, KLAC at $169.34 is 45% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own KLAC?
20 of the institutions we track reported a position in KLAC in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is KLAC's P/E ratio?
KLAC trades at 65.4 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does KLA Corp. (KLAC) pay a dividend?
Yes. KLA Corp. yields 0.40% at the current share price. It has paid $0.840 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 21 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its KLAC data?
Fundamentals for KLAC come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NASDAQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Sept 2026, 17:17 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.