KLACKLA Corporation
Is the business good?
The checks split: 7 of 9 health tests passed and elite returns on assets, but margins compressing.
High fundamental quality. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
High-quality, exceptional returns on the assets themselves, not leverage. ROE 81% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is KLAC?
KLA Corporation keeps 36% of every revenue dollar as profit after everything, against 12% for the median Semiconductor Equipment & Materials name.
Net margin · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 12% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- R&D as % of revenue
- 11%
R&D as % of revenue
- Gross margin
- 61%
Gross margin
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 61%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 36%
- Free cash flow margin
- 28%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 11%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $13.6B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.77B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $4.83B
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
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