KLAC · Nasdaq

KLA Corporation

Semiconductor Materials & Equipment · Milpitas, California · founded 1975/1977 (1997)

Board members
9
CEO
Richard P. Wallace
Insider buys, 12 mo
$0
Insider sales, 12 mo
$112.3M

Board of directors (9)

Directors with a Section 16 filing in the last 13 months. “Since” is the first filing as a director; SEC data sets start in 2016.

Robert Calderoni
Directorsince Nov 2016+1 S&P board
Kevin Kennedy
Directorsince Nov 2016+1 S&P board
Victor Peng
Directorsince Feb 2019+1 S&P board
Jeneanne Michelle Hanley
Directorsince Jun 2019
Michael R. McMullen
Directorsince Jul 2023+1 S&P board
Jamie Samath
Directorsince May 2025
Susan J.S Taylor
Directorsince May 2025+1 S&P board
Tracy A. Embree
Directorsince Nov 2025+1 S&P board
Jason Conley
Directorsince Nov 2025

Executive officers (6)

Richard P. Wallace
President and CEOsince Aug 2016
Bren D. Higgins
EVP & Chief Financial Officersince 2016 or earlier
Virendra A. Kirloskar
SVP & Chief Accounting Officersince 2016 or earlier
Ahmad A. Khan
President, Semi. Prod. & Cust.since 2016 or earlier
Brian Lorig
EVP, KLA Global Servicessince Feb 2017
Mary Beth Wilkinson
EVP, CLO and Secretarysince Sep 2020

Company facts

Chair
—
In S&P 500 since
Sep 1997
Incorporated in
DE
Fiscal year ends
June
SEC industry
Optical Instruments & Lenses
SEC filings
EDGAR

Connections to other S&P 500 companies

Current directors and officers who also hold a role at another S&P 500 company.

Major holders (5% or more)

Latest Schedule 13D/13G filing per holder. Holders that reported falling below 5% are not shown. Index funds usually report once a year.

No 5% holder filings parsed yet for this company.

Insider trades

Open-market purchases and sales reported on Form 4. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are excluded.

Buys, 12 mo
$0
0 trades · 0 insiders
Sales, 12 mo
$112.3M
22 trades · 7 insiders
Net, 12 mo
-$112.3M
Data through
Sep 15, 2026
latest trade shown
DateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue
Sep 15, 2026Richard P. Wallace
President and CEO
Sale72,019$171.88$12.4M
Aug 13, 2026Brian Lorig
EVP, KLA Global Services
Sale59,586$208.13$12.4M
Aug 12, 2026Bren D. Higgins
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Sale31,500$209.87$6.6M
Aug 11, 2026Ahmad A. Khan
President, Semi. Prod. & Cust.
Sale33,180$198.95$6.6M
Aug 11, 2026Richard P. Wallace
President and CEO
Sale87,568$198.95$17.4M
Aug 10, 2026Virendra A. Kirloskar
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Sale529$204.56$108K
Aug 10, 2026Mary Beth Wilkinson
EVP, CLO and Secretary
Sale1,661$204.56$340K
Aug 7, 2026Mary Beth Wilkinson
EVP, CLO and Secretary
Sale21,831$197.57$4.3M
Aug 7, 2026Virendra A. Kirloskar
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Sale2,405$197.57$475K
Aug 5, 2026Mary Beth Wilkinson
EVP, CLO and Secretary
Sale13,802$195.50$2.7M
Aug 5, 2026Virendra A. Kirloskar
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Sale4,504$195.50$881K
Aug 4, 2026Mary Beth Wilkinson
EVP, CLO and Secretary
Sale4,295$191.59$823K
Aug 4, 2026Virendra A. Kirloskar
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Sale1,565$191.59$300K
Jul 2, 2026Bren D. Higgins
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Sale27,701$265.69$7.4M
Jul 2, 2026Virendra A. Kirloskar
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Sale196$265.69$52K
Jul 1, 2026Mary Beth Wilkinson
EVP, CLO and Secretary
Sale14,392$285.30$4.1M
Jun 11, 2026Richard P. Wallace
President and CEO
Sale4,512$2,213.37$10.0M
May 12, 2026Richard P. Wallace
President and CEO
Sale4,512$1,794.00$8.1M
May 11, 2026Virendra A. Kirloskar
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Sale297$1,879.02$558K
May 11, 2026Jeneanne Michelle Hanley
Director
Sale550$1,874.71$1.0M
Dec 16, 2025Bren D. Higgins
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Sale2,254$1,237.01$2.8M
Nov 11, 2025Richard P. Wallace
President and CEO
Sale10,803$1,203.10$13.0M
Sep 5, 2025Ahmad A. Khan
President, Semi. Prod. & Cust.
Sale4,564$900.00$4.1M
Aug 29, 2025Ahmad A. Khan
President, Semi. Prod. & Cust.
Sale13,716$881.50$12.1M
Aug 20, 2025Bren D. Higgins
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Sale2,301$878.53$2.0M

Board and executive changes

Every 8-K with Item 5.02 (departure, election or appointment of directors and officers). The text is the first paragraph of the item.

  1. Aug 7, 2025

    On August 7, 2025, Gary Moore and Emiko Higashi notified the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of KLA Corporation (the “Company”) of their respective decision to retire from the Board and the applicable committees of the Board, effective at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). Each of Mr. Moore’s and Ms. Higashi’s retirements is not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the operations, policies or practices of the Company. The Board expects to nominate Tracy Embree and Jason Conley as directors for the Board, to be elected at the Annual Meeting. If elected, Ms. Embree will serve on the Compensation and Talent Committee (the “Compensation Committee”) and Mr. Conley will serve on the Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board. Ms.

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  2. May 8, 2025

    On May 8, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of KLA Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Susan J.S. Taylor to the Board and the Audit Committee of the Board, effective immediately. Ms. Taylor served as Chief Accounting Officer of Meta Platforms, Inc., a social media and technology company, from April 2017 until June 2023. From 2012 to 2017, Ms. Taylor served as Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer of LinkedIn Corporation, a professional social networking company. From 2009 to 2012, Ms. Taylor served as the Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer of Silver Spring Networks, Inc., a provider of networking solutions. From 2008 to 2009, Ms. Taylor served as the Senior Director, Accounting Policy of Yahoo! Inc. Prior to Yahoo!, Ms.

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  3. May 1, 2025

    On April 30, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of KLA Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Jamie E. Samath to the Board, effective immediately. Mr. Samath has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Technology, since January 1, 2025, at Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (“Intuitive”), a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery. In his over 12 years with Intuitive, Mr. Samath’s scope and responsibilities have expanded across Intuitive’s financial and business functions. Mr. Samath assumed the role of Intuitive’s Chief Financial Officer in 2022 and became Head of Business Technology in 2024, which includes oversight of information technology, real estate and workplace services, and purchasing. The Board also appointed Mr. Samath to the Audit Committee of the Board, effective immediately. Mr.

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  4. Nov 15, 2024

    On November 15, 2024, KLA Corporation (the “Company”) and Oreste Donzella, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, agreed that Mr. Donzella will transition to the role of part-time senior advisor to the Company beginning on April 14, 2025 (the “Effective Date”) and ending on August 16, 2026 (the “Advisor Period”). Mr. Donzella will remain as the Company’s Chief Strategy Officer until April 13, 2025, during which time, Mr. Donzella will assist the Company with transitioning his current duties and responsibilities. Prior to the Effective Date, there will be no changes to Mr. Donzella’s employment terms, including his compensation or other benefits. Senior Advisor Agreement In connection with his transition, on November 15, 2024, the Company and Mr.

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  5. Sep 20, 2024

    On September 16, 2024, Marie Myers, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of KLA Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company that she will not stand for reelection to the Board at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”), and therefore her term as a director will end at the Annual Meeting. Ms. Myers has confirmed that her decision to not stand for reelection is not due to a disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices.

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  6. Jul 25, 2024

    On July 25, 2024, KLA Corporation (“KLA”) announced that KLA is merging the Electronics, Packaging and Components, KLA Instruments and Semiconductor Process Control groups into a single product and customer organization under Ahmad Khan, effective immediately. As part of this internal reorganization, on July 19, 2024, KLA determined that Oreste Donzella will assume the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for key strategic initiatives at KLA, and will cease serving in his role as Executive Vice President, Electronics, Packaging and Components, effective July 25, 2024.

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  7. Nov 3, 2023

    As noted below under Item 5.07, at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of KLA Corporation (the “Company”) held on November 1, 2023, the Company’s stockholders approved the KLA Corporation 2023 Incentive Award Plan (the “2023 Plan”) and the 2023 Plan became effective. The 2023 Plan was adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) on August 3, 2023, subject to stockholder approval. Following stockholder approval of the 2023 Plan, no further awards will be made under the Company’s 2004 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended and restated, the “2004 Plan”). The 2023 Plan provides for the grant of stock options, stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted stock, restricted stock units, dividend equivalents, and other stock and cash based awards.

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  8. Jul 24, 2023

    On July 24, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of KLA Corporation (the “Company”) elected Michael McMullen to the Board, effective immediately. Mr. McMullen has served as the President, since 2014, and Chief Executive Officer, since 2015, of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (“Agilent”), a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, providing application focused solutions that include instruments, software, services and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow. In his thirty-year career at Agilent, Mr. McMullen held various leadership positions. The Board also appointed Mr. McMullen to the Compensation and Talent Committee of the Board, effective immediately. Mr.

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  9. Aug 5, 2022

    On August 4, 2022, the Compensation Committee (the “Compensation Committee”) of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of KLA Corporation (the “Company”) approved the grant of performance-based restricted stock units (“PSUs”) under the Company’s 2004 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, the “Plan”) to certain of the Company’s named executive officers identified below (collectively, the “executives”). The following is a brief description of the material terms and conditions of the PSUs. General . Each award of PSUs (each, an “PSU Award”) is comprised of three tranches (each, a “Tranche”), with each Tranche covering approximately one-third of the total target number of PSUs underlying the PSU Award.

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  10. Feb 13, 2020

    On February 10, 2020, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of KLA Corporation (the "Company") appointed Marie Myers to the Company's Board, and the Audit Committee of the Board. Ms. Myers was most recently the CFO of UiPath, a robotics process automation software company, and prior to that she served as the global controller of Hewlett Packard ("HP"), where she was responsible for HP's financial statements and global financial operations. In her twenty-year career at HP and Compaq, Ms. Myers held various leadership positions in finance. Ms. Myers will receive a prorated grant of restricted stock units for her service on the Board through the next annual meeting of stockholders and will be entitled to receive a prorated portion of the annual cash retainer paid by the Company to independent members of the Board for their service.

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  11. Aug 21, 2019

    On August 16, 2019, KLA Corporation (the "Company") announced internally that Brian Trafas would be retiring from his position as Executive Vice President, Global Customer Organization effective on December 31, 2019. Following his retirement, it is expected that he will continue to serve the Company in a senior advisor capacity. In connection with the transition, Ahmad Khan was named President, Semiconductor Process Control. The Company's Global Customer Organization will report into Mr. Khan effective January 1, 2020.

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  12. Aug 1, 2019

    On July 31, 2019, Ana Pinczuk informed the Corporate Secretary that she would not be standing for re-election as a member of the Board of Directors at the next annual meeting of stockholders. Her decision not to stand for re-election is not due to a disagreement with KLA Corporation.

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  13. Jun 10, 2019

    On June 10, 2019, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of KLA-Tencor Corporation (the "Company") appointed Jeneanne Hanley to the Company's Board. Ms. Hanley was most recently senior vice president and president, E-Systems for Lear Corporation, a global automotive technology leader in seating and electrical and electronic systems. Prior to that role, she held leadership positions in operational roles of increasing responsibility throughout her 25-year career at Lear. Ms. Hanley will receive a prorated grant of restricted stock units for her service on the Board through the next annual meeting of stockholders and will be entitled to receive a prorated portion of the annual cash retainer paid by the Company to independent members of the Board for their service. The text of the press release announcing her appointment is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report.

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  14. Feb 1, 2019

    On January 31, 2019, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of KLA-Tencor Corporation (the "Company") appointed Victor Peng to the Company's Board, and the Compensation Committee of the Board. Mr. Peng is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Xilinx, Inc. and serves on its board of directors. Mr. Peng has over 30 years of experience leading technology transformation, defining and bringing to market FPGAs, SoCs, GPUs, high performance microprocessors and chip sets, and microprocessor IP products. Mr. Peng will receive a prorated grant of restricted stock units for his service on the Board through the next annual meeting of stockholders and will be entitled to receive a prorated portion of the annual cash retainer paid by the Company to independent members of the Board for their service.

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  15. Jul 30, 2018

    On July 25, 2018, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of KLA-Tencor Corporation (the "Company") adopted a resolution appointing Ana G. Pinczuk to the Company's Board effective as of August 1, 2018. Ms. Pinczuk was most recently the President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Pointnext technology services organization, and has broad experience across a number of technology industries, including mobile, IP networking, software, data storage and security. As the former President and General Manager of a $7 billion services organization, the Company believes that her experience will be a tremendous resource to the Company's growing services business. Ms.

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  1. Aug 15, 2017

    On August 14, 2017, KLA-Tencor Corporation (the “Company”) implemented certain organizational changes that affected the duties and responsibilities of one of its named executive officers, Bobby Bell, who has assumed the newly created role of Chief Strategy Officer. In this new role, Mr. Bell will continue to report to the Chief Executive Officer, Richard Wallace, and will be responsible for ensuring that the Company has a comprehensive strategic planning process that addresses both its current markets as well as initiatives in new markets . Prior to assuming the new role, Mr. Bell was the Executive Vice President for the Company’s Semiconductor Business Organization.

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  2. Dec 5, 2016

    On December 1, 2016, KLA-Tencor Corporation (the “Company”) implemented certain organizational changes that affected the duties and responsibilities of certain of its named executive officers. Michael Kirk will remain an Executive Vice President of the Company, and will assume the leadership role for the Company’s strategic business development, transitioning from his role overseeing the Company’s former Wafer Inspection Division. Bobby Bell will remain an Executive Vice President, moving from his role managing strategic projects for the Company to driving growth and execution of the newly created Semiconductor Business Organization - comprised of the Company’s Global Customer Solutions Group, the Global Customer Organization and the Global Products Group.

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  3. Oct 20, 2016

    Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangement of Certain Officers. On October 20, 2016, KLA-Tencor Corporation (the "Company") amended and restated its Executive Severance Plan (the “Severance Plan”). The amendment (1) removed the provision that provided for a tax gross-up related to excise taxes that may be imposed by Section 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), as the result of a participant receiving a payment that would constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Code Section 280G upon or in connection with a change of control of the Company and (2) replaced it with a new provision that provides that for any payment that a participant receives that would constitute a “parachute payment” and would therefore be subject to Code Section 4999 excise tax, that payment will be reduced to either (a) the largest port…

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  4. Mar 1, 2016

    Director or officer change (Item 5.02). Open the filing for details.

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Proxy statements (DEF 14A): 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021

Share price

$138.49+2023% since 2016 board/officer change filed
19.5413324620172019202120232025

Annual financials

From the company's 10-K XBRL data (SEC companyfacts).

Fiscal yearRevenueNet incomeMarginDiluted EPSTotal assets
FY2026$13.6B$4.8B35.6%$3.66$18.0B
FY2025$12.2B$4.1B33.4%$3.04$16.1B
FY2024$9.8B$2.8B28.1%$2.03$15.4B
FY2023$10.5B$3.4B32.3%$24.15$14.1B
FY2022$9.2B$3.3B36.1%$21.92$12.6B
FY2021$6.9B$2.1B30.0%$13.37$10.3B
FY2020$5.8B$1.2B21.0%$7.70$9.3B
FY2019$4.6B$1.2B25.7%$7.49$9.0B

Former directors and officers (16)

People who stopped filing as an insider of this company. “Last filing” is the last Form 3/4/5, an upper bound on when they left.

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Emiko Higashi
DirectorNov 2016 – Nov 2024
Gary B. Moore
DirectorNov 2016 – Nov 2024
Robert A. Rango
DirectorNov 2016 – Nov 2024
Oreste Donzella
Executive Vice PresidentFeb 2020 – Jul 2024
Marie Myers
DirectorFeb 2020 – Nov 2023
Kiran M. Patel
DirectorNov 2016 – Nov 2022
Edward W. Barnholt
DirectorNov 2016 – Aug 2022
Teri A. Little
EVP, CLO and SecretaryJul 2016 – Jun 2020
Brian M. Trafas
Executive Vice President2016 or earlier – Feb 2020
Amichai Steimberg
CEO - Orbotech Ltd.Mar 2019 – Jan 2020
John T. Dickson
DirectorNov 2016 – Nov 2019
Ana G. Pinczuk
DirectorAug 2018 – Nov 2019
Asher Levy
CEO - Orbotech Ltd.Feb 2019 – Feb 2019
David C. Wang
DirectorNov 2016 – Nov 2018
Bobby R. Bell
Chief Strategy Officer2016 or earlier – Feb 2018
Michael Kirk
Executive Vice President2016 or earlier – Feb 2017
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