Kulicke & Soffa Industries is a semiconductor equipment & materials business based in the US. Kulicke & Soffa Industries shares (KLIC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $33.22 – an increase of 3.55% over the previous week. Kulicke & Soffa Industries employs 2,702 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $701.2 million.
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| Latest market close | $33.22 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $26.63 - $52.92 |
| 50-day moving average | $35.07 |
| 200-day moving average | $42.74 |
| Wall St. target price | $49.00 |
| PE ratio | 293.8182 |
| Dividend yield | $0.805 (2.56%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.11 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $33.22 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 3.55% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 14.08% |
| 3 months (2025-02-04) | -23.46% |
| 6 months (2024-11-04) | -27.66% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | -29.32% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-03) | -27.17% |
| 3 years (2022-05-03) | 46.3949 |
| 5 years (2020-05-01) | 65.31% |
Valuing Kulicke & Soffa Industries stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Kulicke & Soffa Industries's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Kulicke & Soffa Industries's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 294x. In other words, Kulicke & Soffa Industries shares trade at around 294x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Kulicke & Soffa Industries's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.31. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Kulicke & Soffa Industries's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Kulicke & Soffa Industries's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $48.1 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Kulicke & Soffa Industries's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $701.2 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 6.42% |
| Gross profit TTM | $336.2 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.2% |
| Return on equity TTM | 0.31% |
| Profit margin | 0.48% |
| Book value | $18.17 |
| Market Capitalization | $1.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 7.36% of net profits
Recently Kulicke & Soffa Industries has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Kulicke & Soffa Industries shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Kulicke & Soffa Industries's case, that would currently equate to about $0.805 per share.
While Kulicke & Soffa Industries's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Kulicke & Soffa Industries is investing more in its future growth.
Kulicke & Soffa Industries's most recent dividend payout was on 7 April 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 19 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Kulicke & Soffa Industries's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 31 July 2000 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Kulicke & Soffa Industries shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Kulicke & Soffa Industries shares which in turn could have impacted Kulicke & Soffa Industries's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Kulicke & Soffa Industries's shares have ranged in value from as little as $26.625 up to $52.9236. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Kulicke & Soffa Industries's is 1.511. This would suggest that Kulicke & Soffa Industries's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of 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 integrated device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, other electronics 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.
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