KLA Corporation (KLAC)

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KLA Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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KLA Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.5 billion in fiscal 2017 to $14 billion in fiscal 2026, up 16.3% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 7% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-06-30, KLA Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 77% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 22 sales (20 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-06-30, KLA Corporation earned about 76 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 46 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 65 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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KLA Corporation's standing among 23 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $14 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 11% by size; a net margin of 35.6% ranks in the top 2%; revenue growth of 9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 41% (its annual reports).

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KLA Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Wallace, Richard P (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-02-21, 20.7 years (top 9% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.8 years (top 15%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 34%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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KLA Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $1.6 billion against debt of $5.9 billion leaves -23.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 12% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 27.7% of revenue (top 11%); a gross margin of 61.3% (top 2%); research spending of 11.3% of revenue (top 22%) (its annual report).

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KLA Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 9% a year over the last three filed years against 16.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 20% of its family); the newest year grew 11.7% (top 37%); research spending grew 5.7% a year (top 39%); capital spending grew 3.2% a year (top 41%) (its annual reports). KLA Corporation reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2026: Wafer Inspection at $6.6 billion (49%), Service at $3.1 billion (23%), Patterning at $2.7 billion (20%), and 3 more; 4 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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KLA Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $14 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 3.8% above the $13 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 48% of its family); net income of $4.8 billion against a prior three-year average of $3.4 billion (top 34%); a net margin of 35.6% against 31.3% before (top 39%) (its annual reports).