KLA Corporation (KLAC) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of KLA Corporation (KLAC): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About KLA Corporation
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.
Sector: Technology · Industry: Semiconductor Equipment & Materials · United States · 17,000 employees · kla.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, KLA Corporation (KLAC) had a market capitalization of $242.50B, a trailing P/E of 47.2 (forward 27.7), a dividend yield of 0.53% and a beta of 1.44; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $90.67 – $307.37 (104.2% over the year).
- Market cap
- $242.50B
- Enterprise value
- $243.74B
- Trailing P/E
- 47.2
- Forward P/E
- 27.7
- PEG ratio
- 1.63
- Price / book
- 38.21
- EPS (trailing)
- $3.93
- EPS (forward)
- $6.69
- Dividend yield
- 0.53%
- Payout ratio
- 21.9%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-17
- 52-week range
- $90.67 – $307.37
- 52-week change
- 104.2%
- Beta
- 1.44
- Average volume
- 12.5M
- Shares outstanding
- 1.31B
- Short % of float
- 2.16%
- Profit margin
- 35.6%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, KLA Corporation (KLAC) last closed at $177.18 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 42 (neutral territory), price -4.4% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -7.5%, MACD histogram 1.04.
Sentiment inputs: 74% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 80% bullish; Reddit mentions 0% over 24 hours; analyst consensus score 71/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 47 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 2 buys and 1 sell of KLAC; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 12 sells (9 distinct filers, latest disclosure 2026-08-14). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Virendra A. Kirloskar (0B/4S), Mary Beth Wilkinson (0B/4S), Brian Lorig (0B/1S), Bren D. Higgins (0B/1S), Richard P. Wallace (0B/1S), Ahmad A. Khan (0B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
KLAC has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls KLA Corporation (KLAC) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell KLAC.
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