{"id":15537,"date":"2026-04-30T04:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zoominfinancial.com\/?p=15537"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:17:53","slug":"kla-corporation-klac-q3-2026-earnings-call-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoominfinancial.com\/?p=15537","title":{"rendered":"KLA Corporation (KLAC) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<header class=\"flex flex-col items-start justify-between\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"relative mb-18 flex items-start justify-between\" data-test-id=\"author-brief\">\n<div class=\"relative z-0 mr-18 flex\">\n<div class=\"flex shrink-0 items-center justify-center relative size-36 rounded-full\" data-test-id=\"user-pic-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><button data-state-text=\"Following\" aria-label=\"Follow SA Transcripts\" class=\"ihjjQ py-8 px-18 ml-auto print:hidden relative inline-flex items-center justify-center select-none hover:no-underline transition-colors motion-reduce:transition-none border-black bg-black text-white hover:bg-black-70 disabled:border-transparent disabled:bg-black-20 dark:border-black-10 dark:bg-black-10 dark:text-black dark:hover:border-black-30 dark:hover:bg-black-30 dark:disabled:bg-black-30 min-h-36 border text-medium-b px-16 py-1 whitespace-nowrap break-words rounded-8 cursor-pointer\" data-test-id=\"follow-button\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wMAFB relative flex justify-center\" data-state-placeholder=\"Following\"><span class=\"absolute\">Follow<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"block bg-black-10 opacity-30 dark:bg-black-35 w-full h-30 mb-16\" data-test-id=\"loader\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"Qozfr w-full border-l-6 border-l-orange-60 bg-black-5 py-18 pl-18 pr-24 text-x-large-2-r dark:bg-black-95 print:break-inside-avoid mb-24 lg:mb-30\" data-test-id=\"transcript-player\">\n<h3 class=\"text-4x-large-b lg:text-2x-large-b mb-8\" data-test-id=\"transcript-title\">Q3: 2026-04-29 Earnings Summary<\/h3>\n<p>EPS of $9.40 <span class=\"text-teal\">beats by $0.23 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0|\u00a0<!-- -->Revenue of <!-- -->$3.42B<!-- --> (11.49% Y\/Y)<!-- --> <span class=\"text-teal\">beats by $36.81M<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"paywall-full-content R6FbO flex sa-text-content sa-media-content sa-table-content sa-content-helpers print:block mb-32\">\n<div class=\"w-0 grow print:w-auto\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"T2G6W\" data-test-id=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"transcript-headline\">\n<p data-eci=\"true\">KLA Corporation (<span class=\"ticker-hover-wrapper\">KLAC<\/span>) Q3 2026 Earnings Call April 29, 2026 5:00 PM EDT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"transcript-company-participants\">\n<p class=\"transcript-company-participants-title\"><strong>Company Participants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Kevin Kessel &#8211; Vice President of Investor Relations<\/span><br \/><span>Richard Wallace &#8211; President, CEO &amp; Executive Director<\/span><br \/><span>Bren Higgins &#8211; Executive VP &amp; CFO<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"transcript-other-participants\">\n<p class=\"transcript-other-participants-title\"><strong>Conference Call Participants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Christopher Muse &#8211; Cantor Fitzgerald &amp; Co., Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Stacy Rasgon &#8211; Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Harlan Sur &#8211; JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Sreekrishnan Sankarnarayanan &#8211; TD Cowen, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Joseph Quatrochi &#8211; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Timothy Arcuri &#8211; UBS Investment Bank, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>James Schneider &#8211; Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Yu Shi &#8211; Needham &amp; Company, LLC, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Srinivas Pajjuri &#8211; RBC Capital Markets, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Shane Brett &#8211; Morgan Stanley, Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Edward Yang &#8211; Oppenheimer &amp; Co. Inc., Research Division<\/span><br \/><span>Christopher Caso &#8211; Wolfe Research, LLC<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"transcript-presentation\">\n<p class=\"transcript-presentation-title\"><strong>Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"transcript-presentation-section\" seq=\"0\">\n<p class=\"transcript-presentation-section-title\"><span><strong>Operator<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Good afternoon. My name is Leo, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the KLA Corporation March Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]<\/p>\n<p>I will now turn the call over to Kevin Kessel, Vice President of Investor Relations and Market Analytics. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"transcript-presentation-section\" seq=\"1\">\n<p class=\"transcript-presentation-section-title\"><span><strong>Kevin Kessel<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span><i>Vice President of Investor Relations<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the March 2026 quarterly earnings call for KLA. I&#8217;m joined by our CEO, Rick Wallace; and CFO, Bren Higgins. We will discuss today&#8217;s results as well as our outlook, which we released after the market closed and is available on our website along with supplemental materials. <\/p>\n<p>We are presenting today&#8217;s discussion and metrics on a non-GAAP financial basis unless otherwise specified. We will not reference fiscal years in our discussion, all full year references we make refer to calendar years. <\/p>\n<p>The earnings material contain a detailed reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results. 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