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Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc (KLIC) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on KLIC

What this diary said about Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

  • “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: Step One: Trimming the Infra-AI Side · 27 Jun 2026

What we hold

BookPositionSinceResult
AI Buildout 100 shares · average entry $121.88 — −22.1%

Model books as of 7 Oct 2026; wikifolio positions from the official wikifolio data, entries in euros. Results are unrealised, before any exit. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

Signals for this name

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

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 Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-10-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
KLIC−0.8%+4.5%+20.0%−6.1%
Advanced Packaging & Bonding+0.1%+5.1%+8.9%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+0.8%+7.0%+11.0%—

Against the index: 2.5 pts behind on the week, 9.0 pts ahead on the month; against its Advanced Packaging & Bonding sleeve 11.1 pts ahead on the month.

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

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

Mentioned on Closelooknet

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.
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 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sector × region Technology in US: +3.9% week · +8.0% month · +11.5% quarter · +49.8% 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 → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
How it trades on rate days beta 1.03 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How KLIC has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 1.03 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc moved 1.03% on average · correlation 0.17 · higher than 88% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.27 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.56% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −2.62% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

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 Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc

KLIC in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet 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
Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet tracks it
It is a constituent of the Rubin Build-Out 100. It carries a Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet company score reads 53/100 composite (momentum 54, quality 40, valuation 30) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.84%, quarterly · buybacks 97 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What KLIC pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.82 USD per share · a 0.84% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year 0.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.82 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.21 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-17
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.20 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.81 USD · 2025: 0.82 USD · 2026: 0.62 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-20
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 54 m USD 32% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 97 m USD 1.9% of today's market value
  • Share count −4.4% in FY2025 29 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 151 m USD · 157% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

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 Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is KLIC in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-10-07.

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

53 out of 100, with momentum 54, quality 40 and valuation 30 sub-scores, as of 2026-10-07. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does KLIC trade against its moving averages?

Stochastic turned down: Its stochastic crossed down from overbought (%K 93.4 under %D 94.9) today — momentum is cooling. As of 2026-10-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is KLIC doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc is +20.0% against +11.0% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 9.0 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-10-06. Its Advanced Packaging & Bonding sleeve is +8.9% 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.

How does Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Rubin Build-Out 100 · Advanced Packaging & Bonding), Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc (KLIC) sits 27.3% below its 52-week high, 12.2% above its 50-day average; Nordson Corporation (NDSN) is 1.4% below, Hanmi Semicon (042700.KS) is 34.7% below, BE Semiconductor Industries NV (BESI.AS) is 38.2% below. Put any of them next to KLIC in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc had a beta of 1.03 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 88% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.56% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc appears in 1 Closelooknet piece, most recently Daily Pulse: Step One: Trimming the Infra-AI Side (2026-06-27). What Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

Does Closelooknet hold Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc?

Yes — AI Buildout: 100 shares · average entry $121.88, -22.1% unrealised. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

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. Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet 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.

Does Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc pay a dividend?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc has paid 0.82 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.84% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.21 USD on 2026-09-17. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 54 m USD in dividends and bought back 97 m USD of its own shares, 157% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 4.4% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

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

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Semiconductor Equipment & Materials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.