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Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. KLIC

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
3 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$654.1M
▼ 7.4% YoY
$213,000
$96.4M
▲ 547.2% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Kulicke and Soffa designs, develops, manufactures and sells capital equipment and consumables, and provides services used to assemble semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits, power discretes, light-emitting diodes and sensors, and it services, maintains, repairs and upgrades its equipment and sells consumable aftermarket solutions and services. Its customers primarily consist of integrated device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, foundry service providers, and other electronics manufacturers and automotive electronics suppliers. As of October 4, 2025, it had 2,551 full-time employees and 41 temporary workers worldwide. Approximately 90.5% of its net revenue for fiscal 2025 was for shipments to customer locations outside of the U.S., primarily in the Asia/Pacific region, including approximately 53.5% for shipments to customers headquartered in China. It has Ball Bonding Equipment, Wedge Bonding Equipment, Advanced Solutions and Aftermarket Products and Services reportable segments, along with remaining operating segments in an "All Others" category. K&S was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1956.

Written from the business description in KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 654.1M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 0.7 · Net income 0.0
0.8B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
−24.2%
+1.0%
+2.0%
−1.0%
−92.1%
−66.7%
−42.3%
−35.2%
−91.7%
−65.6%
−40.3%
−33.7%
+69.0%
+11.3%
−32.8%
+2.8%
+2.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +1.0% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
0 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -0.5% · Net 0.0%
10%20%30%-10%-20%-30%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 0.0%
20%40%-10%-20%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 0 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 97.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 96.4
200M-20M-40M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 97.1
200MDividendsNet buybacks20122014201620182020202220242025

USD 97.1M in buybacks — 45589% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 1.1B
EquityUSD 821.5M
CashUSD 215.7M
Current ratio4.79×

Equity funds 74% of total assets.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.70.70.71.51.50.60.50.90.80.60.50.60.50.80.80.80.2
Operating income $B−0.0−0.10.00.50.40.10.00.20.10.10.00.10.10.20.20.1−0.1
EBITDA $B0.0−0.10.10.50.40.10.00.20.10.10.10.10.10.20.20.2·
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.1−0.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0
Net income $B0.0−0.10.10.40.40.10.00.10.10.00.10.10.10.20.10.1−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.00.10.40.30.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.20.20.1−0.1
EPS, diluted $0.00−1.240.997.095.780.830.180.801.750.680.690.810.782.131.731.92−0.67
Dividend / sh $0.820.800.190.170.560.480.480.240.000.00·······
Payout %·−647499582711400·······
ROE %0.0−6.54.837.939.66.81.46.314.76.26.88.48.728.832.257.6−24.4
Shares out B0.050.050.060.060.060.060.060.070.070.070.070.080.080.070.070.07·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivitySemiconductors & Related Devices
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inPennsylvania
Fiscal year endsOctober 3
Data on record since2009

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