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Company snapshot — Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc

KLIC in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Kulicke and Soffa builds the machines that assemble semiconductor devices once the wafer is finished: ball bonding equipment that wires a chip to its package, wedge bonding tools used mainly in power and automotive parts, and advanced systems for die-attach, thermocompression and display bonding. It also sells the spares, consumables and repair services that keep this equipment running over time. Its customers include integrated device manufacturers, outsourced assembly-and-test houses, foundry service providers and automotive electronics suppliers. The company is based in Singapore.
Where it sits in the stack
In our index, Kulicke and Soffa sits in Layer 3, Assembly & Test, within the Advanced Packaging & Bonding sleeve — the stage covering CoWoS, hybrid bonding and chiplet integration that the build-out thesis treats as a bottleneck. Its bonding and die-attach tools form part of the capacity that decides how many advanced packages can be assembled, so it is a supplier the packaging bottleneck depends on rather than a chip designer or a chipmaker.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group for this sleeve places it with Nordson, Hanmi Semicon, BE Semiconductor Industries, ASM Pacific Technology and LPKF Laser & Electronics, all tied to the same bonding and packaging step the sleeve tracks.
Why Closelook tracks it
It is a constituent of the Rubin Build-Out 100. It carries a Closelook score with momentum the strongest module and quality the weakest, and the diary named it in a Daily Pulse note as a selective add in the equipment and process-control layer even while trimming crowded large-caps.
What the diary watches
Whether demand for bonding and die-attach capacity keeps pace as advanced packaging volumes rise, and whether order flow at the equipment layer confirms or contradicts that build-out read.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc (KLIC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology, and sits in Layer 3 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelook company score reads 51/100 composite (momentum 43, quality 34, valuation 34) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for KLIC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Rubin Build-Out 100 · Advanced Packaging & Bonding · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Rubin Build-Out 100 · Advanced Packaging & Bonding

CoWoS, hybrid bonding, and chiplet integration. The packaging bottleneck the Rubin thesis is built around.

Compared against KLIC on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-09-16

DayWeekMonth3 months
KLIC+1.0%−5.0%−21.8%−32.2%
Advanced Packaging & Bonding+1.8%−6.4%−7.3%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+1.9%−5.3%−7.4%—

Against the index: 0.3 pts ahead on the week, 14.4 pts behind on the month; against its Advanced Packaging & Bonding sleeve 14.5 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 45/100 · S&P 500 fund at 42, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-16
  • Factor regime Momentum leadership cooling, still above trendMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 91th percentile of the window, -0.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-16
  • Sector × region Technology in US: −2.1% week · −3.4% month · −1.2% quarter · +32.1% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.17 · up 0.22 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-16

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-17

Quick answers

What is Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc (KLIC)?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc trades as KLIC on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-17.

Is KLIC in a Closelook index?

Yes — Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-09-17.

What is Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc's Closelook composite score?

51 out of 100, with momentum 43, quality 34 and valuation 34 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-17. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does KLIC trade against its moving averages?

Resizing — 41.4% off its high: 41.4% below its 52-week high, under its 200-day — a deeper resizing of the trend, not a shallow dip. As of 2026-09-16 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is KLIC doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc is −21.8% against −7.4% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 14.4 points behind its index, as of 2026-09-16. Its Advanced Packaging & Bonding sleeve is −7.3% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc do?

Kulicke and Soffa builds the machines that assemble semiconductor devices once the wafer is finished: ball bonding equipment that wires a chip to its package, wedge bonding tools used mainly in power and automotive parts, and advanced systems for die-attach, thermocompression and display bonding. It also sells the spares, consumables and repair services that keep this equipment running over time. Its customers include integrated device manufacturers, outsourced assembly-and-test houses, foundry service providers and automotive electronics suppliers. Closelook's peer group for this sleeve places it with Nordson, Hanmi Semicon, BE Semiconductor Industries, ASM Pacific Technology and LPKF Laser & Electronics, all tied to the same bonding and packaging step the sleeve tracks.

Where does Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc sit in the AI build-out?

In our index, Kulicke and Soffa sits in Layer 3, Assembly & Test, within the Advanced Packaging & Bonding sleeve — the stage covering CoWoS, hybrid bonding and chiplet integration that the build-out thesis treats as a bottleneck. Its bonding and die-attach tools form part of the capacity that decides how many advanced packages can be assembled, so it is a supplier the packaging bottleneck depends on rather than a chip designer or a chipmaker. It is a constituent of the Rubin Build-Out 100. It carries a Closelook score with momentum the strongest module and quality the weakest, and the diary named it in a Daily Pulse note as a selective add in the equipment and process-control layer even while trimming crowded large-caps.

Where has Closelook written about Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Daily Pulse: Step One: Trimming the Infra-AI Side (2026-06-27). What Closelook said most recently: We opened KLIC and MKSI in AI Build-Out — selective adds in the equipment and process-control layer, the part of the build-out we still want exposure to even as we trim the crowded large-caps. (Daily Pulse, 2026-06-27). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for KLIC, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Daily Pulse, “Step One: Trimming the Infra-AI Side” (2026-06-27)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where KLIC appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

  • Step One: Trimming the Infra-AI SideDaily Pulse · 27 Jun 2026We opened KLIC and MKSI in AI Build-Out — selective adds in the equipment and process-control layer, the part of the build-out we still want exposure to even as we trim the crowded large-caps.

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