KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.KLIC

Technology · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
64.01USD
+6.99%
Nov 08, 2026
KLIC overview ready
Semiconductor-assembly capital equipment enabler for advanced packaging
Semiconductor-assembly capital-equipment enabler, with legacy wire-bonding exposure and a more direct growth option in thermo-compression bonding and other advanced-packaging process equipment.
Theme not measured
Advanced Packaging has no leadership state this session.
Price trend is broken
Longer-term context reads trend under pressure, with a near-term setup of distribution pressure.
The tactical setup reads distribution pressure, but the weekly structure is broken.
Attractive valuation
Current market expectations look undemanding relative to the strength of its balance sheet.
Unremarkable fundamentals
Primary risk
Execution risk on advanced packaging equipment growth.
Market Nov 6Filing Jul 4Price action Nov 7Research Sep 22

Conviction Level

Theme Momentum has no canonical measurement for this company — a research-profile dimension, not an input to this score.

PriceAction1.4BusinessPerformance9.0BusinessQuality6.4Valuation9.1ThemeMomentum—Accelerating — Revenue growth has accelerated across 4 consecutive quarters, rising from -2.1% to +123% year over year. Earnings turned positive: diluted EPS of $1.07 against a loss of -$0.06 a year earlier. — Accelerating describes growth momentum measured in recent filed quarters. It is not proof that the acceleration will continue.

Conviction uses Price Action, Business Performance, Business Quality, Valuation. Theme Momentum is research context, not an input.

Theme momentumPrimary theme · group context, not entry timing
Advanced Packaging — Advanced Packaging is tracked (3–4 priced members) — too few for a leadership state
Its economic family, Semiconductors, reads Lagging (−22.2pp vs SPY) — the family’s reading, not this theme’s.
Price
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Price Action

Price trend is broken
Longer-term context reads trend under pressure, with a near-term setup of distribution pressure.
The tactical setup reads distribution pressure, but the weekly structure is broken.
EntryDamaged / breakdown

The technical structure itself is broken across timeframes — the weakest entry profile.

Key Financials

Market Cap
$3.3B
Avg Volume (60D)
697.8K
60 sessions
Revenue Growth YoY
-7.4%
FY2025 vs FY2024
Gross Margin
+48.2%
Trailing twelve months
Operating Margin
+13.2%
Trailing twelve months
Free Cash Flow Yield
+1.2%
Distance from 200DMA
-25.9%
Next Earnings
2026-11-18
P/E
28.9x
Market metrics as of Nov 6, 2026
Financial results for the period ended Jul 4, 2026
Filed balance-sheet data as of Jul 4, 2026

Business Performance

Accelerating

Revenue growth has accelerated across 4 consecutive quarters, rising from -2.1% to +123% year over year. Earnings turned positive: diluted EPS of $1.07 against a loss of -$0.06 a year earlier.

Latest reported: Q3 FY2026, ended Jul 4
Revenue growthAccelerating
+123%
$330M in Q3 FY2026 · YoY
YoY growth, last 4 quarters
  1. -2.1%
  2. +20%
  3. +50%
  4. +123%
Earnings growthTurned profitable
$1.07
Diluted EPS $1.07 vs -$0.06 a year earlier · GAAP
Diluted EPS YoY (GAAP), last 4 quarters
  1. -46%
  2. -79%
  3. n/a
  4. n/a
Operating marginExpanding
20.7%
+24.8 pp YoY · gross margin 47.8% (+1.1 pp)
Profit is not fully converting to cash

Business Quality

6.4 / 10

How well the business earns on its assets, converts earnings to cash and funds itself — read from its SEC filings.

Fundamentals & Valuation

One of the two valuation perspectives says cheap; peers is the dissenting view.
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. has a Cheap valuation stance because current market expectations look undemanding relative to the strength of its balance sheet. It trades at a 1.2% free-cash-flow yield, which the underlying economics comfortably support.

Company Research

Thesis
Semiconductor-assembly capital-equipment enabler, with legacy wire-bonding exposure and a more direct growth option in thermo-compression bonding and other advanced-packaging process equipment. KLIC is a genuine advanced-packaging equipment participant rather than a generic semiconductor adjacency.
Opportunity
High opportunity
Chipmaker, foundry and OSAT investment in advanced assembly, high-density interconnect, heterogeneous integration and test capacity needed for AI, HBM and other complex semiconductor devices.
Key risk
Execution risk on advanced packaging equipment growth.

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Business & Markets

Technology · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
What they do

Kulicke and Soffa designs, manufactures, and sells capital equipment and consumables used to assemble semiconductor devices, operating globally through multiple segments including bonding equipment and aftermarket services.

How it earns

The company generates revenue primarily through transactional sales of equipment and consumables to semiconductor manufacturers and related customers.

Products & services
Ball Bonding Equipment
Wedge Bonding Equipment
Advanced Packaging Solutions
Aftermarket Products and Services
Customers & end markets
Semiconductor manufacturers
Foundries and OSATs
Advanced packaging service providers
Market position

A leading supplier in thermocompression and hybrid bonding equipment with legacy strength in wire bonding.

Demand drivers
High cyclicality

Semiconductor capital equipment demand is closely tied to cyclical chip industry investment and technology cycles.