Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLIC) to Issue Quarterly Dividend of $0.20

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLIC) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 27th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 17th will be paid a dividend of 0.205 per share by the semiconductor company on Wednesday, October 7th. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 17th.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries has raised its dividend by an average of 0.1%per year over the last three years and has raised its dividend annually for the last 7 consecutive years. Kulicke and Soffa Industries has a payout ratio of 53.6% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Research analysts expect Kulicke and Soffa Industries to earn $4.96 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $0.82 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 16.5%.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Price Performance

Shares of Kulicke and Soffa Industries stock traded down $0.21 on Thursday, hitting $84.67. 601,348 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 884,508. Kulicke and Soffa Industries has a one year low of $35.02 and a one year high of $135.80. The company has a fifty day moving average of $103.83 and a two-hundred day moving average of $90.34. The company has a market capitalization of $4.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 39.02 and a beta of 1.67.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries (NASDAQ:KLIC) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, August 5th. The semiconductor company reported $1.20 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.06 by $0.14. Kulicke and Soffa Industries had a return on equity of 14.39% and a net margin of 12.18%.The business had revenue of $330.41 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $308.50 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.07 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 122.6% on a year-over-year basis. Kulicke and Soffa Industries has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 1.278-1.562 EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that Kulicke and Soffa Industries will post 3.38 earnings per share for the current year.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Company Profile

Kulicke & Soffa Industries (NASDAQ:KLIC) is a global supplier of semiconductor and LED assembly equipment. The company specializes in the design, development and manufacture of advanced die bonding, wire bonding, flip-chip bumping and wafer-level packaging systems. Its solutions support a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, automotive, communications and other high-growth segments within the semiconductor and LED industries.

Key products include precision wire bonders for microelectronic packaging, die attach systems for chip placement, flip-chip bonders for advanced packaging architectures and LED packaging platforms that enable high-volume production of automotive and general-illumination LEDs.