KLAC KLA Corporation
Trend channel, buy level and 3-month target. Information only, not financial advice.
Below the channel · 12-month channel rising
Closed below support (US$174.48). Treat the buy level with caution.
- 12-month channel
- US$174.71 – US$205.14 · rising, +79% a year
- Price in channel
- −54% (0% = floor, 100% = ceiling)
- Ceiling overhead
- US$205.14
- Published levels
- Buy and target are not from this channel — see below.
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -52% from US$301.1530 June 2026 → 23 Oct 2026
- Whose problem it was
- Its sector16 of 31 Semiconductors peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 8%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 76% of 60 comparable falls came back, typically in 187 days measured on its own peer group
Fell -52% (30 June 2026 → 23 Oct 2026); regained 8% so far; sector-wide.
Reported at the time: Cantor Fitzgerald Maintains Overweight on KLA, Raises Price Target to $325 — 29 June 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
Updated 4:05 PM ET (44 h ago)
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (12 months)
- Lower trend line (12 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$157.83
level as at 1 Nov 2026
Our target
US$173.61
by 30 Nov 2026
Projected move
10.0%
gross, before costs
Price is at or below our buy.
Target: KLAC's usual move size (10.0%), the best return per day on this path.
This move size: reached in 69% of 13 past stretches, typically in 29 days. (0.34% per day)
- Upper line touches
- 2
- Lower line touches
- 4
- Fit confidence
- 31%
- Fitted
- 1 Nov 2026
Company information
About KLA Corporation
KLA Corporation specializes in creating, manufacturing, and distributing advanced solutions vital for process control, process optimization, and yield enhancement throughout the global semiconductor and broader electronics industries. The company organizes its business into four main segments: Semiconductor Process Control, Specialty Semiconductor Process, PCB, Display and Component Inspection, and an 'Other' category. For integrated circuit (IC) fabrication, KLA offers a comprehensive range of products. These include systems for wafer inspection, review, and metrology; defect inspection and metrology for both wafers/substrates and reticles; chemical and materials quality analysis tools; and real-time process management and wafer handling diagnostics essential for IC and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) production. Furthermore, the company develops software for live process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification. KLA also supplies refurbished and remanufactured equipment. Beyond IC manufacturing, KLA supports specialty semiconductor production. This includes benchtop metrology, surface characterization, and electrical property measurement services suitable for general-purpose and laboratory use. They also provide technologies and solutions for etching, plasma dicing, deposition, and various other wafer processing tasks within the semiconductor and microelectronics sectors. Within the printed circuit board (PCB) market, KLA delivers solutions such as direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, additive printing, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering. For the display industry, their offerings encompass inspection and electrical testing systems to pinpoint and categorize defects, as well as equipment for defect repair. KLA also supplies inspection and metrology systems designed to improve quality control and yield in both advanced and conventional semiconductor packaging markets. Established in 1975, the company was initially known as KLA-Tencor Corporation before rebranding as KLA Corporation in July 2019. Its corporate headquarters are situated in Milpitas, California.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- CEO
- Richard Wallace
- Employees
- 17,100
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own scores from the fundamentals below (not Morningstar ratings).
- Valuation
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- Profitability
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- Financial health
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- Cash generation
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$255.47B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 1.45
- Avg volume
- 13.02M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
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- 52-week range
- 99.855-307.37
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
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- PEG
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- Price / sales
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- Price / book
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Gross margin
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- Operating margin
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- Net margin
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- Current ratio
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- Quick ratio
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- Debt / equity
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- Interest cover
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Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted to past swing highs and lows and may not continue. Information only, not financial advice.