The Latest Breaking News from KLAC

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on KLA (NASDAQ:KLAC). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bullish stance on KLA. Looking at options history for KLA (NASDAQ:KLAC) we detected 10 strange trades.

KLA (NASDAQ:KLAC) has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 9.73% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 20.42%. Currently, KLA has a market capitalization of $47.42 billion.

While the world is grappling with a continuing semiconductor chip shortage, semiconductor manufacturing companies are benefiting from high prices. In addition, rising government and private investments to address the supply crunch position the semiconductor industry for solid growth. So, semiconductor companies Applied Materials (AMAT) and KLA Corporation (KLAC) should benefit…

Continued Ukraine-Russia war, soaring inflation, and the anticipated aggressive interest rate hikes later this year have made the stock market extremely volatile lately. Amid these circumstances, it could be wise to invest in high-quality stocks KLA Corporation (KLAC), Mettler-Toledo (MTD), Dolby (DLB), and Waters (WAT), which are down more than…

Deutsche Bank has decided to maintain its Buy rating of KLA (NASDAQ:KLAC) and lower its price target from $475.00 to $425.00. Shares of KLA are trading up 1.74% over the last 24 hours, at $336.00 per share. A move to $425.00 would account for a 26.49% increase from the current share…

The stock market has been exhibiting immense volatility of late due to escalating economic sanctions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, inflationary pressures, and supply chain disruptions. However, some growth-focused companies should be able to capitalize on the steady economic recovery this year. Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL),…

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a well-established player in the industry, but the stock could face some headwinds in the near term. Therefore, quality semiconductor stocks Texas Instruments (TXN), Applied Materials (AMAT), and KLA Corporation (KLAC) could be better bets to capitalize on the industry tailwinds.

Piper Sandler analysts Weston Twigg and Harsh Kumar jointly noted that inSpectrum released its January monthly memory contract pricing data, which indicated DRAM 8Gb DDR4 fell 8% month-over-month and that NAND 256Gb TLC dropped 1% on a month-over-month basis.  The analysts, who monitor the three-month rolling average year-over-year change to better gauge trends,…