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Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc is a United States-based company that is principally engaged in designing, manufacturing, and selling capital equipment and expendable tools that are used for assembling semiconductor devices. The company has four reportable segments which includes Ball Bonding Equipment, Wedge Bonding Equipment, Advanced Solutions, and Aftermarket Products and Services. Its Ball Bonding Equipment segment which generates the majority of the revenue for the company includes results of the company from the design, development, manufacture and sale of ball bonding equipment and wafer level bonding equipment. The majority of its customers are located in the Asia-pacific region.

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Shares of KLIC rose on Friday after the announcing an order from a major foundry. Analyst upgraded stock to Buy with $55 target price.

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TD Cowen analyst Krish Sankar maintains Kulicke &amp; Soffa Indus (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) with a Hold and raises the price target from $45 to $50.

TD Cowen Maintains Hold on Kulicke & Soffa Indus, Raises Price Target to $50

DA Davidson analyst Thomas Diffely maintains Kulicke &amp; Soffa Indus (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) with a Buy and lowers the price target from $65 to $60.

DA Davidson Maintains Buy on Kulicke & Soffa Indus, Lowers Price Target to $60

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) shares were rising in early trading on Friday, after <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/KLIC">shedding more than 5% this week</a>.
While reporting earnings, the company announced an order for fluxless TCB from "the world&#8217;s leading foundry," which could be chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/TSM#NYSE">TSM</a>), according to Needham.
<a href="https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-stock-ratings/analyst/60ed6112b473c600014bf1c9/charles-shi">Analyst </a><a href="https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-stock-ratings/analyst/60ed6112b473c600014bf1c9/charles-shi">Charles Shi</a> upgraded the rating for Kulicke and Soffa Industries from Hold to Buy, while establishing a price target of $55.
The Kulicke and Soffa Industries Thesis: Given in order, the company expects TCB revenues to grow by 40%-50% year-on-year in 2025, Shi said in the upgrade note.
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Kulicke and Soffa Industries is expected to generate TCB revenues of around $55 million in 2024, which could now reach as much as $80 million next year, "beating our $70MM estimate by about $10MM," he added.
Rival ASMPT is likely to have failed the TCB qualification at Taiwan Semiconductor and its management said during the third-quarter earnings call that TCB evaluation at the leading foundry "may take another year," the analyst stated.
"To us, the fact that KLIC is already qualified and shipping while ASMPT still has not closed the evaluation means that KLIC has won," he further wrote.
KLIC Price Action: Shares of Kulicke and Soffa Industries rose by 2% to $46.52 at the time of publication on Friday.
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Needham analyst Charles Shi upgrades Kulicke &amp; Soffa Indus (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) from Hold to Buy and announces $55 price target.

Needham Upgrades Kulicke & Soffa Indus to Buy, Announces $55 Price Target

First Quarter Fiscal 2025 Outlook
The Company currently expects net revenue in the first fiscal quarter of 2025, ending December 28, 2024, to be approximately $165.0 million, +/- $10 million, GAAP diluted EPS to be approximately $1.45 +/- 10%, and non-GAAP diluted EPS to be approximately $0.28, +/- 10%. This outlook includes favorable claim/proceeds relating to cessation of business due to the cancellation of Project W - which was disclosed on March 11, 2024.
A reconciliation between the GAAP and non-GAAP financial outlook is provided in the financial tables included at the end of this press release.

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Kulicke and Soffa Industries Sees Q1 Adj. EPS $0.28 +/- 10% Vs $0.33 Est.; Revenue $165M, +/- $10M Vs $179.47M Est.

&nbsp;<a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4301273-1&amp;h=3947322835&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kns.com%2F&amp;a=Kulicke+and+Soffa+Industries%2C+Inc.">Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.</a>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) ("Kulicke &amp; Soffa", "K&amp;S", "we" or the "Company"), in collaboration with ROHM Co., Ltd (TYO:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/TYO:6963#TYO">6963</a>) ("ROHM"), a producer of a wide-range of semiconductor devices, announces a new path to hybrid bonding leveraging Kulicke &amp; Soffa's leading Fluxless Thermo-Compression (FTC) process.
Kulicke &amp; Soffa's recently released APTURA&#x2122; FTC system, combined with technology innovations from ROHM, have successfully enhanced chip-to-wafer hybrid bonding with the innovative copper-first – CuFirst&#x2122;&nbsp;– hybrid solution. While existing die-to-wafer hybrid bonding capacity can enable significant I/O density – yield challenges, cost of ownership, and front-end processing requirements are limiting the adoption rate and market potential of existing hybrid solutions.
The CuFirst hybrid solution, utilizing the K&amp;S APTURA FTC platform, addresses these production limitations and challenges. With the emerging CuFirst process, the copper interconnect is bonded first – leveraging the APTURA platform's FTC capability – then the dielectric (SiOx) connection is made once the device returns to room temperature. This CuFirst process is expected to support higher yields, lower infrastructure costs and better cost of ownership compared to conventional die-to-wafer hybrid bonding. In addition to CuFirst hybrid, the APTURA FTC system also supports traditional flux- and fluxless-based thermo-compression bonding (TCB), including the direct bonding of copper-to-copper pillars – down to an 8µm pitch. This system can also accommodate die-to-die, die-to-substrate, or die-to-wafer configurations comprehensively addressing a broad range of material handling and end-application requirements.

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Kulicke & Soffa And ROHM Semiconductor Develop New CuFirst Hybrid Bonding Process

&nbsp;<a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4301271-1&amp;h=3005998098&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kns.com%2F&amp;a=Kulicke+and+Soffa+Industries%2C+Inc.">Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.</a>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) ("Kulicke &amp; Soffa", "K&amp;S", "we" or the "Company"), has received an order from a leading foundry customer for multiple APTURA&#x2122;&nbsp;Fluxless TCB systems to support the broadening global adoption of advanced packaging capacity for leading-edge semiconductor production.
Kulicke &amp; Soffa continues to actively expand its customer base with APTURA&#x2122;&nbsp;– the most advanced Fluxless Thermo-Compression (FTC) system available, and the first to support FTC in a production environment. Today, Kulicke &amp; Soffa has delivered over 30 FTC systems supporting development and production activities across five separate end customers.
The Company's leading APTURA&#x2122;&nbsp;FTC system:
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<li>Is production-proven – K&amp;S is first to enable high-volume FTC in production environment.</li>
<li>Supports a wide range of material configurations – source wafer, reel, or tray; to a target wafer, interposer, die or substrate – capable of supporting all die-to-die, or die-to-wafer based applications, in production.</li>
<li>Extends pitch capabilities – APTURA&#x2122;&nbsp;FTC platform enables ultra-fine pitch direct Cu-to-Cu bonding down to 8µm, as well as capable of supporting CuFirst, which is expected to scale down towards 3µm pitch.</li>
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Prior to Kulicke &amp; Soffa's innovations in FTC, traditional thermo-compression solutions – requiring both flux and solder – are pitch limited down to approximately 30µm, which previously limited adoption in leading-edge logic devices. Today, the growing adoption of FTC across a broadening set of IDM, OSAT and now Foundry customers is a testament to the future potential of this innovative technology, and the Company's leadership through this exciting transition.
Strong ongoing demand for FTC development is directly related to the growing value of Advanced Packaging techniques throughout the semiconductor assembly market. These solutions provide a new level of industry value with the potential to lower design cost, reduce yield challenges and enable new levels of transistor density at the package level. During fiscal year 2025, K&amp;S anticipates its TCB business will grow by 40-50% sequentially, driven by broadening adoption in leading-edge compute, optical, communications and industrial markets.

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Kulicke & Soffa Has Received An Order From A Leading Foundry Customer For Multiple APTURA Fluxless TCB Systems To Support The Broadening Global Adoption Of Advanced Packaging Capacity For Leading-Edge Semiconductor Production; During Fiscal Year 2025, K&S Anticipates Its TCB Business Will Grow By 40-50% Sequentially

Fifth Consecutive Annual Dividend Raise; Quarterly Dividend Increased to $0.205&nbsp; New $300 Million Share Repurchase Program
SINGAPORE, Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) ("Kulicke &amp; Soffa," "K&amp;S" or the "Company"), announced today that its Board of Directors has declared and authorized a quarterly dividend of $0.205 per share of common stock, representing a $0.005 increase over its most recent dividend. This dividend raise highlights the Company's commitment to a consistent shareholder return strategy and will be included in the January 7, 2025 dividend payable to holders of record as of the close of business on December 19, 2024.
In addition to the quarterly dividend increase, K&amp;S expanded its shareholder return activities with a new $300 million share repurchase program authorized by its Board of Directors. This new program will begin after the completion of the Company's existing $800 million share repurchase program. At the completion of the 2024 fiscal year, the existing repurchase program – originally announced on August 15, 2017 – had $30.3 million of authorization remaining and is expected to be completed during the Company's fiscal first quarter 2025, ending December 28, 2024.

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Kulicke & Soffa Raises Quarterly Dividend From $0.20 To $0.205; Announces New $300M Share Repurchase Program

Kulicke &amp; Soffa Indus (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/KLIC#NASDAQ">KLIC</a>) reported quarterly earnings of $0.35 per share which met the analyst consensus estimate. This is a 31.37 percent decrease over earnings of $0.51 per share from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $181.32 million which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $180.01 million by 0.73 percent. This is a 10.38 percent decrease over sales of $202.32 million the same period last year.

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