KLA Corp. (KLAC) stock price, quote and key numbers
Updated 28 September 2026, 09:52 ET
KLA Corp. (KLAC) closed at $187.92 on 25 September 2026, up 0.4%. That leaves it up 6.2% over a week, up 2.2% over a month and up 76.6% over a year. That is 43% of the way up its 52 week range of $97.68 to $307.37. The median analyst price target of $238 sits 26.6% above the close.
The price
Changes compare dividend and split adjusted closes over trading sessions, so the one year figure is the last close against the close 252 sessions earlier. The 52 week range uses the daily highs and lows of the same window. Read the guide: How to read a stock quote.
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Trend and range
KLAC trades below both its 50 day average of $188.89 and its 200 day average of $1,081.53, the shape of a downtrend. The 50 day average sits below the 200 day average. Its beta against the S&P 500 over the last year is 2.73, a stock that moves a lot more than the market. It is 38.9% below its 52 week high and 92.4% above its 52 week low.
Moving averages smooth the closes of the last 50 and 200 sessions; being above or below them describes the trend, it does not predict it. Beta is how much the stock moved for each move in the S&P 500 over the year. Read the guide: Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta.
What analysts say
In the last 90 days 13 firms recorded 17 actions on KLAC: 17 kept a view. Price targets: 9 raised and 6 lowered. The most recent targets from 17 firms run from $180 to $325, with a median of $238, 26.6% above the last close.
| Date | Firm | Action | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 2026 | UBS | Maintains Neutral | $215.00 to $200.00 |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Stifel | Maintains Buy | $270.00 to $250.00 |
| 29 Jul 2026 | RBC Capital | Maintains Sector Perform | $170.00 to $180.00 |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Susquehanna | Maintains Neutral | $275.00 to $215.00 |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Wells Fargo | Maintains Overweight | $305.00 to $245.00 |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Cantor Fitzgerald | Reiterates Overweight | $325.00 |
A target is one firm's guess at the price a year out, and the average runs optimistic. The useful reading is the mood: high targets and a wall of buys mean high expectations. Read the guide: What analyst ratings and price targets tell you.
Earnings
The next report is on the calendar for 28 October 2026 for Q1 2027, with earnings per share expected at $1.18. The last report, on 28 July 2026 for Q4 2026, showed EPS of $1.05 against $1.00 expected, a beat of 5.0%, on revenue of $3.7 billion. KLA Corp. beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reported quarters.
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The numbers
Over the trailing twelve months KLA Corp. shows revenue growth of 11.71%, a gross margin of 61.30%, an operating margin of 43.38% and a return on equity of 87.50%.
| Measure | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, TTM | 11.7% | 65th |
| Net income growth, TTM | 18.9% | 57th |
| Gross margin | 61.3% | 74th |
| Operating margin | 43.4% | 94th |
| Free cash flow margin | 27.7% | 89th |
| Return on equity | 87.5% | 98th |
| Return on assets | 28.4% | 97th |
| Debt to equity | 0.93 | 74th |
| Current ratio | 2.88 | 78th |
| Effective tax rate | 13.8% | 56th |
The percentile ranks the company against every US company the data covers; a high percentile means most companies score lower.
Margins say how much of each dollar of sales becomes profit, returns say how hard the balance sheet works, and debt to equity says how much of it is borrowed. The valuation ratios, price to earnings and the rest, are in the app on the stock page. Read the guide: The valuation ratios on a stock page.
About KLA Corp.
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry
- Measuring And Control Equipment
- Headquarters
- Milpitas, California
- Chief executive
- Richard P. Wallace
- Employees
- 14,000
- Website
- kla.com
KLA Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets process control and yield management solutions for semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries. The company offers chip and wafer manufacturing products, including defect inspection and review systems, metrology solutions, in situ process monitoring products, computational lithography software, and data analytics systems.
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Learn
- How to read a stock quote
- Reading a price chart from one day to one year
- Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta
- What analyst ratings and price targets tell you
- The valuation ratios on a stock page
- Price alerts, targets and percent moves
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