KLA-Tencor was formed through the merger of KLA Instruments (KLA) and Tencor Instruments (Tencor), two long-time leaders in the semiconductor equipment and yield management software system industry. Prior to the merger, both businesses served a segment of the inspection and metrology area; with KLA focused on defect inspection solutions and Tencor placing its emphasis on metrology solutions. Merging together in a one-to-one stock swap valued at $1.3 billion, KLA-Tencor became the most important process control player in the industry, bringing to market a complete line of yield management products and services from a single company.
Industry sector: Computer and Technology
Sector classification: Optical instruments & lenses
Deep Learning based analysis and prediction model for KLA-Tencor Corp. (KLAC) stock is a 2nd Generation Non-linear Autoregressive (NAR) model based on the LSTM/GRU Recurrent Neural Network architecture.
Model is in the production pipeline since Oct. 22, 2015.
Market data for KLAC model training are being downloaded from the
Quandl premium datasets on a daily basis.
Risks related to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the virus named “SARS-CoV-2” are
accounted for in this model in the form of the historical data coincided with outbreaks and other
global events in the past used to train ML prediction model for KLAC.
Model is being retrained on a regular basis.
Float | 156M |
P/E | 13.75 |
Shares Outstanding | 156M |
% Held by Insiders | 0.20% |
% Held by Institutions | 92.09% |
EPS (last reported FY) | $5.94 |
EPS (last reported Q) | $2.02 |
EPS, estimated (last reported Q) | $1.98 |
Total revenues | $3 B |
Net income | $1 B |