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CompanyCurrent Price50-Day Moving Average52-Week RangeMarket CapBetaAvg. VolumeToday's Volume
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
$224.99
-1.2%
$186.80
$123.74
$232.07
$179.24B1.829.95 million shs5.27 million shs
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
$1,106.66
+0.7%
$980.52
$551.33
$1,155.00
$145.73B1.51.05 million shs879,136 shs
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
$38.86
-2.2%
$39.04
$26.63
$52.08
$2.03B1.57442,203 shs627,443 shs
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Thanks to a pivotal economic catalyst, specific tech stocks will skyrocket just like they did during the "dot com" boom in the 1990s.

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  2. The second pick presents an affordable avenue to bolster EVs and AI development…. Analysts are calling this stock a “buy” right now and predict a high price target of $19.20, substantially more than its current $6 trading price.
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Compare Price Performance

Company1-Day Performance7-Day Performance30-Day Performance90-Day Performance1-Year Performance
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
0.00%+7.16%+18.57%+18.14%+21.89%
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
0.00%+12.61%+5.73%+18.85%+62.13%
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
0.00%+1.78%-9.69%+9.71%-12.75%
CompanyCurrent Price50-Day Moving Average52-Week RangeMarket CapBetaAvg. VolumeToday's Volume
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
$224.99
-1.2%
$186.80
$123.74
$232.07
$179.24B1.829.95 million shs5.27 million shs
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
$1,106.66
+0.7%
$980.52
$551.33
$1,155.00
$145.73B1.51.05 million shs879,136 shs
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
$38.86
-2.2%
$39.04
$26.63
$52.08
$2.03B1.57442,203 shs627,443 shs
7 Stocks to Ride The A.I. Megaboom Cover


We are about to experience the greatest A.I. boom in stock market history...

Thanks to a pivotal economic catalyst, specific tech stocks will skyrocket just like they did during the "dot com" boom in the 1990s.

That’s why, we’ve hand-selected 7 tiny tech disruptor stocks positioned to surge.

  1. The first pick is a tiny under-the-radar A.I. stock that's trading for just $3.00. This company already has 98 registered patents for cutting-edge voice and sound recognition technology... And has lined up major partnerships with some of the biggest names in the auto, tech, and music industry... plus many more.
  2. The second pick presents an affordable avenue to bolster EVs and AI development…. Analysts are calling this stock a “buy” right now and predict a high price target of $19.20, substantially more than its current $6 trading price.
  3. Our final and favorite pick is generating a brand-new kind of AI. It's believed this tech will be bigger than the current well-known leader in this industry… Analysts predict this innovative tech is gearing up to create a tidal wave of new wealth, fueling a $15.7 TRILLION market boom.

Right now, we’re staring down the barrel of a true once-in-a-lifetime moment. As an investment opportunity, this kind of breakthrough doesn't come along every day.

And the window to get in on the ground-floor — maximizing profit potential from this expected market surge — is closing quickly...

Simply enter your email below to get the names and tickers of the 7 small stocks with potential to make investors very, very happy.

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Compare Price Performance

Company1-Day Performance7-Day Performance30-Day Performance90-Day Performance1-Year Performance
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
0.00%+7.16%+18.57%+18.14%+21.89%
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
0.00%+12.61%+5.73%+18.85%+62.13%
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
0.00%+1.78%-9.69%+9.71%-12.75%
CompanyConsensus Rating ScoreConsensus RatingConsensus Price Target% Upside from Current Price
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
2.55
Moderate Buy$206.08-8.41% Downside
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
2.41
Hold$1,009.40-8.79% Downside
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
2.40
Hold$42.008.08% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest KLIC, KLAC, and AMAT Analyst Ratings

DateCompanyBrokerageActionRatingPrice TargetDetails
10/16/2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
Mizuho
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Boost Price TargetNeutral$175.00 ➝ $215.00
10/13/2025
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
Stifel Nicolaus
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Boost Price TargetBuy$922.00 ➝ $1,050.00
10/13/2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
Stifel Nicolaus
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Boost Price TargetBuy$180.00 ➝ $215.00
10/13/2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
Bank of America
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UpgradeNeutralBuy$180.00 ➝ $250.00
10/13/2025
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
Needham & Company LLC
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Boost Price TargetBuy$1,000.00 ➝ $1,100.00
10/13/2025
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
Bank of America
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Boost Price TargetBuy$1,000.00 ➝ $1,300.00
10/10/2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
KeyCorp
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Boost Price TargetOverweight$220.00 ➝ $240.00
10/10/2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
B. Riley
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Boost Price TargetBuy$200.00 ➝ $265.00
10/10/2025
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
B. Riley
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Boost Price TargetNeutral$30.00 ➝ $35.00
10/9/2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
The Goldman Sachs Group
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Boost Price TargetBuy$215.00 ➝ $250.00
10/9/2025
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
Wolfe Research
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Boost Price TargetOutperform$1,075.00 ➝ $1,250.00
(Data available from 10/19/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)
CompanyAnnual RevenuePrice/SalesCashflowPrice/CashBook ValuePrice/Book
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
$28.61B6.26$9.22 per share24.40$23.05 per share9.76
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
$12.16B11.99$38.53 per share28.72$35.56 per share31.12
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
$706.23M2.87$0.91 per share42.77$17.32 per share2.24
CompanyNet IncomeEPSTrailing P/E RatioForward P/E RatioP/E GrowthNet MarginsReturn on Equity (ROE)Return on Assets (ROA)Next Earnings Date
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
$7.18B$8.3926.8222.342.8123.88%40.96%22.99%11/13/2025 (Estimated)
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
$4.06B$30.3936.4234.493.1933.41%112.41%28.75%10/29/2025 (Estimated)
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
-$69.01M$0.08485.7522.46N/A0.90%-1.06%-0.81%11/12/2025 (Estimated)

Latest KLIC, KLAC, and AMAT Earnings

DateQuarterCompanyConsensus EstimateReported EPSBeat/MissGap EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueDetails
11/13/2025Q4 2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
$2.11N/AN/AN/A$6.68 billionN/A
11/12/2025Q4 2025
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
$0.22N/AN/AN/A$169.84 millionN/A
10/29/2025Q1 2026
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
$8.47N/AN/AN/A$3.17 billionN/A
8/14/2025Q3 2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
$2.36$2.48+$0.12$2.22$7.21 billion$7.30 billion
8/6/2025Q3 2025
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
$0.06$0.07+$0.01-$0.06$145.48 million$148.41 million
7/31/2025Q4 2025
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
$8.53$9.38+$0.85$9.06$3.08 billion$3.17 billion
CompanyAnnual PayoutDividend Yield3-Year Dividend GrowthPayout RatioYears of Consecutive Growth
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
$1.840.82%N/A21.93%8 Years
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
$7.600.69%N/A25.01%16 Years
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
$0.822.11%N/A1,025.00%7 Years

Latest KLIC, KLAC, and AMAT Dividends

AnnouncementCompanyPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable Date
9/11/2025
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
quarterly$0.461.08%11/20/202511/20/202512/11/2025
8/29/2025
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
quarterly$0.20501.91%9/18/20259/18/202510/7/2025
8/7/2025
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
quarterly$1.900.83%8/18/20258/18/20259/3/2025
(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)
CompanyDebt-to-Equity RatioCurrent RatioQuick Ratio
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
0.28
2.50
1.76
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
1.25
2.62
1.83
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
N/A
4.94
4.10

Institutional Ownership

CompanyInstitutional Ownership
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
80.56%
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
86.65%
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
98.22%

Insider Ownership

CompanyInsider Ownership
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
0.24%
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
91.48%
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
3.40%
CompanyEmployeesShares OutstandingFree FloatOptionable
Applied Materials, Inc. stock logo
AMAT
Applied Materials
35,700796.64 million794.73 millionOptionable
KLA Corporation stock logo
KLAC
KLA
15,200131.68 million11.22 millionOptionable
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. stock logo
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
2,74652.15 million50.37 millionOptionable

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Applied Materials stock logo

Applied Materials NASDAQ:AMAT

$224.99 -2.73 (-1.20%)
Closing price 10/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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$225.25 +0.26 (+0.11%)
As of 10/17/2025 08:00 PM Eastern
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Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment also offers various technologies, including epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation/nitridation, rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, electrochemical deposition, atomic layer deposition, etching, and selective deposition and removal, as well as metrology and inspection tools. The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. The company was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

KLA stock logo

KLA NASDAQ:KLAC

$1,106.66 +7.86 (+0.72%)
Closing price 10/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
Extended Trading
$1,108.34 +1.67 (+0.15%)
As of 10/17/2025 07:56 PM Eastern
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KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems that are used 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; reticle inspection and metrology systems; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries stock logo

Kulicke and Soffa Industries NASDAQ:KLIC

$38.86 -0.88 (-2.21%)
Closing price 10/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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$38.87 +0.01 (+0.03%)
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Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells capital equipment and tools used to assemble semiconductor devices. It operates through four segments: Ball Bonding Equipment, Wedge Bonding Equipment, Advanced Solutions, and Aftermarket Products and Services (APS). The company offers ball bonding equipment, wafer level bonding equipment, wedge bonding equipment; and advanced display, die-attach, and thermocompression systems and solutions, as well as tools, spares and services for equipment. It also services, maintains, repairs, and upgrades equipment. The company serves semiconductor device manufacturers, integrated device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, other electronics manufacturers, industrial manufacturers, foundry service providers, and automotive electronics suppliers primarily in the United States and the Asia/Pacific region. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.