KLA-Tencor Corporation (KLAC) is a supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries. The Company's products are also used in various other industries, including the light emitting diode (LED) and data storage industries, as well as general materials research. KLA-Tencor's products and services are used by bare wafer, integrated circuit (IC), lithography reticle and disk manufacturers around the world. These customers turn to the Company for inline wafer and IC defect monitoring, review and classification; reticle defect inspection and metrology; packaging and interconnect inspection; critical dimension (CD) metrology; pattern overlay metrology; film thickness, surface topography and composition measurements; measurement of in-chamber process conditions, wafer shape and stress metrology; computational lithography tools, and overall yield and fab-wide data management and analysis systems.
Analyst Upgrade/Downgrade Update Brokerage firm: Needham Change: Coverage Reiterated/Price Target Changed Previous Rating: N/A Current Rating: Buy Previous Price Target: $84 Current Price Target: $86 Analyst Upgrade/Downgrade Update Brokerage firm: Cowen Change: Coverage Reiterated/Price Target Changed Previous Rating: N/A Current Rating: Outperform Previous Price Target: $80 Current Price Target: $85
