For the quarter, total revenues were $2.569 billion, at the upper end of the guidance range of $2.5 billion +/- $125 million; For the quarter, GAAP diluted EPS attributable to KLA was $6.18 and non-GAAP diluted EPS attributable to KLA was $6.60, each finishing above the midpoints of the respective guidance ranges; Cash flow from operating activities for the quarter and fiscal year was $892.6 million and $3.31 billion, respectively, and free cash flow was $831.9 million and $3.03 billion, respectively; and C ...

Investors interested in Computer and Technology stocks should always be looking to find the best-performing companies in the group. Has KLA (KLAC) been one of those stocks this year? Let's take a closer look at the stock's year-to-date performance to find out. KLA is a member of the Computer and Technology sector. This group includes 617 individual stocks and currently holds a Zacks Sector Rank of #5. The Zacks Sector Rank includes 16 different groups and is listed in order from best to worst in terms of th ...

KLA Corp. Operations I believe the build-out of regional Al factories will drive demand for more advanced nodes as competition for speed and power consumption becomes more frece. Many of the hyperscalers, including Microsoft Azure (MSFT) and Amazon AWS (AMZN) are designing their own accelerators in order to provide more tailored services in relation to data consumption and power efficiency. Despite the drive to bring Al to the edge on smartphones and PCs, I do not anticipate as much eapacity to be catered t ...

When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important? Let's take a look at what these Wall Street heavyweights have to say about KLA (KLAC) before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage. KLA currently has an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 1.8 ...

About KLA: All earnings disclosures as well as the live earnings webcast will be available on the Investor Relations page of KLA's website at ir.kla.com. A replay of the webcast will be posted after the event. KLA Corporation ("KLA") develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging and printed circuit boards. In c ...

KLA (KLAC) closed at $830.03 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.27% move from the prior day. The stock's change was more than the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.23%. At the same time, the Dow lost 0.17%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 0.34%. Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection remained st ...

KLA Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC) NASDAQ Investor Conference Call June 11, 2024 6:15 AM ET Company Participants Oreste Donzella - Executive Vice President of Electronics, Packaging and Components Conference Call Participants Unidentified Analyst Join Jefferies for next up. Very happy to have Oreste Donzella from KLA, who runs their – they call their EPC Group, Electronics, Packaging and Components, very hot area within the capital equipment market. He is going to run through a deck, and then after, if we have s ...

Conference Call Participants Bren Higgins What -- I thought we could start with Bren is maybe at the high level, in '22, you had an Analyst Day where you laid out the target of 9% to 11% topline growth, right, getting to $14 billion in sales and $38 in earnings. I was just hoping that you could maybe take a step back and tell us where KLA is in that journey and what needs to happen from an industry perspective, what needs to happen from a KLA perspective to kind of make progress towards that goal? If you lo ...

KLA Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC) BofA Securities 2024 Global Technology Conference June 6, 2024 1:40 PM ET Company Participants Bren Higgins - EVP & CFO Conference Call Participants Vivek Arya - Bank of America Vivek Arya Alright. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this session. I'm Vivek Arya from BofA Semiconductor team. Really delighted to have Bren Higgins, Executive Vice President and CFO of KLA joined us, KLA is the most profitable company in semi-cap equipment and Bren will give us all the secrets as to ...

From a technical perspective, KLA (KLAC) is looking like an interesting pick, as it just reached a key level of support. KLAC recently overtook the 20- day moving average, and this suggests a short-term bullish trend. The 20-day simple moving average is a popular investing tool. Traders like this SMA because it offers a look back at a stock's price over a shorter period and helps smooth out price fluctuations. The 20-day can also show more trend reversal signals than longer-term moving averages. Similar to ...