KLAC — KLA Corp

Technology · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials · Chip equipment & AI hardware

About KLA Corp

KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. It offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticl

Chip equipment & AI hardware

This layer sells the machines, materials and hardware that make and connect AI systems — semiconductor manufacturing equipment, networking, optics, memory and servers. It is a concentrated, “picks-and-shovels” business one level below the chipmakers. As AI pushes fabs to expand and data centers to scale, demand rises, though the equipment side is cyclical and heavily exposed to China export restrictions. KLA Corp is tracked in this sub-theme as a Semiconductor Equipment & Materials name — see the full Chip equipment & AI hardware list.

Key data · delayed ~15 min, as of 8 July 2026

Ticker	KLAC
Company	KLA Corp
Price	$233.31
Market cap	$309.0B
Sector / industry	Technology / Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Performance	1W -6.2% · 1M +9.8% · 1Y +157.3%
Analyst mean target	$214 (28 analysts, buy)

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What the price implies: a reverse-DCF on forward earnings ($5.08/sh) backs out roughly ~17%/yr earnings growth — moderate expectations. Run your own scenario in the fair-value calculator.

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