#202USNASDAQ

KLAC

KLA Corporation

$217.56USD

Data as of 2026-07-21

Composite Score60.8Strong

≤−99

Margin of safety−443%Expensive

Fair value$40.08

Target$230.96

Loss chance64%Moderate-high

SizeMega cap

SectorInformation Technology

Dividend0.44%

TypeCommon stock

Price

Pillar breakdown

0–100 percentile rank against the current universe (sector-relative for Quality / Value / Growth / Profitability)

Information Technology median (n=189)

Quality
Profit margins & asset efficiency
80
Exceptional
Information Technology median (n=189) 50
Value
Price vs fundamentals
25
Weak
Information Technology median (n=189) 52
Growth
Revenue & earnings trajectory
65
Strong
Information Technology median (n=189) 51
Momentum
Recent price strength
77
Exceptional
Information Technology median (n=189) 66
Health
Balance sheet & solvency
69
Strong
Information Technology median (n=189) 65
Profitability
ROE, ROA, ROIC
77
Exceptional
Information Technology median (n=189) 49
Technical
Trend & volatility signals
31
Weak
Information Technology median (n=189) 47
Risk
Volatility & drawdown profile
58
Strong
Information Technology median (n=189) 40

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Exceptional (70+)Strong (55–70)Average (40–55)Weak (25–40)Poor (<25)

Pillars not shown: Sentiment, ML (Phase 5+).

Risk Summary

2 active

Rank gates

Sloan accruals — top decile[sloan_accruals_top_decile]Within-sector top decile of accruals / assets (Sloan 1996).
Net share issuance — top decile[net_issuance_top_decile]Top-decile net issuance over the trailing year (Pontiff-Woodgate 2008 / Daniel-Titman 2006).

These flags keep the raw composite rank (project Rule 16) but forfeit the entered_top5 badge. Two of them — altman_distress and data_quality_input_corruption — additionally force a cautious recommendation; the others act as Top-5 disqualifiers without dictating the buy/hold/sell label on their own.

Manipulation index

Moderate

20/100

Composite penalty: −2.00 pts (informational; rank uses raw composite)

Driven entirely by the rank-gate flag(s) above — no additional annotate-only components fired.

Rolls up Phase 4.5 earnings-manipulation defenses (Sloan · Beneish · Dechow · REM · restatement · late-filing · earnings- quality time-series) into a single 0-100 risk index. The soft composite penalty (max 10 pts) is informational only — the ranking uses the raw composite score per project Rule 16.

Fair price check

5 different valuation methods each estimate what KLACshould be worth, then we compare to today's price.

Heavily overvalued

Models suggest KLAC is far above estimated fair value

Today's price

$217.56

Median fair price

$40.08

-82% vs today's price

Of 2 methods:1 say fair1 say pricey(3 outliers excluded)

P/E multiplesFair
thinks it's fairly priced — estimates $230.96, about 6% above today
Residual IncomeOvervalued
thinks it's expensive — estimates $47.75, about 78% below today
Graham (defensive)Outlier
estimate looks unreliable — estimates $40.08 — likely unreliable
P/B multiplesOutlier
estimate looks unreliable — estimates $32.18 — likely unreliable
DCF (2-stage)Outlier
estimate looks unreliable — estimates $26.86 — likely unreliable

How to read this: “Cheap” = method's fair price is at least 20% above today. “Fair” = within ±10–20%. “Pricey” = at least 10% below today. Outliers (values more than 5× or less than 0.2× today's price) are excluded.

Fair price ensemble

Median fair: $40.08
Margin of safety(vs fair value): < −99%
Max (ex-outliers): $230.96
Tangible BVPS: $2.86

Extreme Graham estimate
Extreme P/B estimate
Extreme DCF estimate
Majority of methods extreme
Post-split share count adjusted

Median of all applicable methods (current price $217.56). Per-method estimates + each method’s cheap/fair/pricey read are in the Fair price check above. Outliers above 5× or below 0.2× current price are excluded from the max but kept in the median. See methodology for the 6-method ensemble + 7 defenses.

Defense layer. Flags mark elevated risk, never confirmed fraud. This model cannot catch every manipulation and decays after publication — weigh it against its stated error rates.

Supporting dataRaw fundamentals & data-quality provenance behind the scores above

Raw fundamentals (SEC EDGAR)

Metric	Value
Market cap	$284.19B
Revenue (TTM)	$13.10B
Net income (TTM)	$4.67B
Operating cash flow (TTM)	$4.40B
CapEx (TTM)	$387.06M
Free cash flow (TTM)CFO − CapEx	$4.01B
Total assets	$16.87B
Total liabilities	$11.04B
Stockholders' equity	$5.83B
Cash & equivalents	$1.79B
Shares outstanding	1.31B
EPS (basic)	$3.58
EPS (diluted)	$3.58
P/E ratio (TTM)	60.85

TTM = trailing twelve months. Balance sheet items are point-in-time (latest filing).

Data quality

Latest filed date: 2026-04-30
Latest period end: 2026-04-27
Filing lag: 82 days
Missing metrics: 3(gross_profit, operating_income, ebitda)