KLA-Tencor Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:KLAC)

KLA-Tencor trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "KLAC."

KLA-Tencor declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 15th will be given a dividend of $0.75 per share on Tuesday, September 3rd. This represents a $3.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.88%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 14th. View KLA-Tencor's Dividend History.

KLA-Tencor announced that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Tuesday, March 20th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

KLA-Tencor Corp (NASDAQ:KLAC) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, August, 5th. The semiconductor company reported $1.78 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.71 by $0.07. The semiconductor company had revenue of $1.26 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.26 billion. KLA-Tencor had a net margin of 25.73% and a return on equity of 60.86%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 17.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $2.22 EPS. View KLA-Tencor's Earnings History.

KLA-Tencor is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 4th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for KLA-Tencor.

KLA-Tencor issued an update on its first quarter earnings guidance on Tuesday, September, 17th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.04-2.34 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.20. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.31-1.39 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.35 billion.

14 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for KLA-Tencor's shares. Their predictions range from $123.00 to $180.00. On average, they anticipate KLA-Tencor's share price to reach $155.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for KLA-Tencor.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for KLA-Tencor in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for KLA-Tencor.

News stories about KLAC stock have been trending very negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. KLA-Tencor earned a news impact score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the semiconductor company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for KLA-Tencor.

KLA-Tencor saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,600,000 shares, an increase of 24.6% from the August 30th total of 2,890,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,600,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.3 days. Approximately 2.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View KLA-Tencor's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other KLA-Tencor investors own include Lam Research (LRCX), Applied Materials (AMAT), NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Adobe (ADBE), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Western Digital (WDC).

KLA-Tencor's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.13%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.04%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), PGGM Investments (0.04%), American National Bank (0.03%) and Decatur Capital Management Inc. (0.03%). Company insiders that own KLA-Tencor stock include Ahmad A Khan, Amichai Steimberg, Bobby R Bell, Bren D Higgins, Brian Lorig, Brian M Trafas, Edward W Barnholt, Emiko Higashi, Kevin Kennedy, Richard P Wallace, Teri A Little and Virendra A Kirloskar. View Institutional Ownership Trends for KLA-Tencor.

KLAC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, PGGM Investments, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Decatur Capital Management Inc., Lau Associates LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, OmniStar Financial Group Inc. and Delphi Management Inc. MA. Company insiders that have sold KLA-Tencor company stock in the last year include Ahmad A Khan, Amichai Steimberg, Bren D Higgins, Brian Lorig, Brian M Trafas, Emiko Higashi, Kevin Kennedy, Teri A Little and Virendra A Kirloskar. View Insider Buying and Selling for KLA-Tencor.

KLAC stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including American National Bank, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Intellectus Partners LLC, Sonora Investment Management LLC, Riverview Trust Co, Fulton Bank N.A., Rothschild Investment Corp IL and Navellier & Associates Inc. View Insider Buying and Selling for KLA-Tencor.

Shares of KLAC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of KLAC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $159.64.

KLA-Tencor has a market capitalization of $25.30 billion and generates $4.57 billion in revenue each year. The semiconductor company earns $1.18 billion in net income (profit) each year or $8.46 on an earnings per share basis. KLA-Tencor employs 10,020 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About KLA-Tencor.

The official website for KLA-Tencor is http://www.kla.com/.

KLA-Tencor's mailing address is ONE TECHNOLOGY DRIVE, MILPITAS CA, 95035. The semiconductor company can be reached via phone at 408-875-3000 or via email at [email protected]