KLA-Tencor

The past year gave good returns for KLA-Tencor investors

Over the last 12 months (from December 2015 till December 2016), that were profitable period for the investors in KLA-Tencor, the stock gained around 18 percent. KLA-Tencor' stock rose the past 5 years at around 111 percent. KLA-Tencor's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively steady and moved between 3,17 billion dollars and 2,81 billion dollars. The net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and fluctuated between 794,49 million dollars and 366,16 million dollars.

The head office of KLA-Tencor is situated in Milpitas. KLA-Tencor is mostly active in the semiconductor sector. Richard P. Wallace is operating by ' CEO. Bren Higgins leads the company as CFO. Between 2006 and 2016 the global semiconductor companies gained around 58 percent. Since 2011 the sector is 20 percent higher and over the past year minus 58 percent.

Over the past 5 years the American company paid out dividends. Over the past 5 years KLA-Tencor's dividend yield was at around 7,8 percent per year.

At the end of 2015 the company had around 5880 thousand people employed.

KLA-Tencor financed with a quite low debt position

At the end of 2015 the American company's balance sheet was worth 4,83 billion dollars. 4,4 billion dollars (91,27 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. At the end of 2015 the semiconductor company's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 23. So the stock' value was 23 times the 2015' earnings per share. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the semiconductor company equaled around 10,79 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 157,85 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

All KLA-Tencor's annual reports can be found here. More information about KLA-Tencor can be found it's website. .