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$216.86+4.46%as of 12:10 PM ET

KLAC — KLA Corporation

Process control and metrology equipment company; inspection and measurement tools potentially relevant to qubit wafer quality control and Josephson junction yield improvement.

Coiled

1

52w range compression, breakout-adjusted

Watched

100

7-day news volume + tape quietness

Sound

90

Margins, growth, FCF composite

Critical

77

Supply-chain concentration × demand

Pressure

61

Pricing Power

61.5%

Filling fast

Numbers on the wire.

Market cap

$271.2B

P/E (TTM)

58.48

P/S (TTM)

20.86

EV / EBITDA

69.10

Gross margin

61.45%

Op margin

41.68%

Net margin

35.66%

FCF margin

—

Rev growth YoY

13.39%

EPS growth YoY

28.39%

ROE

89.07%

ROA

28.32%

Debt / Equity

1.01

Current ratio

3.03

Price / Book

33.10

Beta

1.46

Layer Presence.

KLA's process control metrology (wafer inspection, CD-SEM, overlay measurement) is used in semiconductor fabs that serve mainstream semiconductor processes; quantum role is inferred from process-flow logic, not publicly confirmed. As qubit yields become commercially critical, KLA-style in-process metrology becomes essential for JJ defect detection. Quantum is negligible to KLA's ~$10B revenue. Low-confidence supply-chain inclusion — flagged as inferred, not disclosed.

From the EDGAR wire.

From the tape.