How is KLA (KLAC) doing?
KLA is a company in the semiconductors industry, based in Milpitas, CA, worth $255.5B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
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KLA shares are up 84% over the past year, 59 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Distribution Top. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 96th percentile on market beat, the 99th on staying power and the 51st on business growth. It appears on 11 of our dashboards, including 5th on “Which companies are most exposed to China?”.
Compare with AMAT · LRCX · ASML · ONTO · ENTG · MKSI · TER
Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Distribution Top
A steady winner on a growing business, but volume shows more selling than buying: holders may be cashing in.
Distribution Top this month; Bellwether before that.
Also Distribution Top (24 in all): FIVE · CNC · ILMN · IRDM · FTI · ALB
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Semis & hardware, 54 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Chipmakers and the gear that builds them — the AI-cycle epicentre.
KLA is +84% over the past year, against +86% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 21st of 54 in Semis & hardware.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual KLA typically moves 4.0% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 86% of large US stocks.
KLAC on our dashboards
Every question where KLA appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with KLAC highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| How far are stocks from their highs? Market health | 51Steady | 54 of 60 | Below high −35% · Days since high 71 · 1Y change +84% |
| What moved this week? What’s leading | 54Typical | 52 of 60 | This week −5.5% · × normal week 0.7× · 1M +10% |
| Which companies are most exposed to China? The economy and rates | 88Heavy | 5 of 35 | Share of sales 29.8% · China sales $4.0B · 3-year change +2.5 pts |
| Which stocks are splitting, and what happens after? Events | –Split Jun 12 | 20 of 51 | Ratio 10-for-1 · Market value $255.5B · Year before +192% |
| Is the market rewarding earnings beats? Earnings | –Beat | 27 of 60 | Surprise +5% · Move vs S&P −15.0% · Reported 2026-07-28 |
| Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks | 79Strong | 30 of 60 | Pressure 40 · 1Y +84% |
| Which stocks keep winning? Leading stocks | 9733 of 52 wks | 14 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y +68 pts · Rank steadiness 99 · P3 score 79 |
| Who is beating its rivals? Leading stocks | 94Ahead | 31 of 60 | 3M −21 pts · 1Y +65 pts · Rivals AMAT, LRCX, ASML, ONTO |
| Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality | 93Excellent | 30 of 60 | Return on capital 40% · Gross margin 61% · Cash margin 28% |
| Which stocks are priced for perfection? Value | 92Priced for perfection | 23 of 60 | Forward P/E 28× · EV / sales 18.3× · Expected EPS growth +23% |
| Which dividends are growing fastest? Dividends and buybacks | 91Fast | 26 of 60 | 5Y +16% a yr · Yield 0.4% |
Go deeper on Stox
KLAC’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see KLAC’s full profile on Stox.
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