{"id":997968,"date":"2026-03-13T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997968"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:02:10","slug":"chipmaking-tool-provider-kla-unveils-additional-7-billion-share-buyback-dividend-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/chipmaking-tool-provider-kla-unveils-additional-7-billion-share-buyback-dividend-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipmaking tool provider KLA unveils additional $7 billion share buyback, dividend increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chipmaking tool provider KLA Corp on Thursday announced a new $7 billion stock buyback program and a 21% increase in its quarterly dividend, while reaffirming its forecast for the current quarter.<\/p>\n<p>This buyback, with no specified timeframe, is \u200cin \u2060addition to the \u2060company&#8217;s existing share repurchase authorization, which stood at $3.94 billion as of December 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>KLA&#8217;s shares have risen more than 20% this year, after a nearly 93% jump last year, driven by relentless investment in data center infrastructure for artificial intelligence tech and the chips that \u2060power it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chipmaking tool provider KLA Corp on Thursday announced a new $7 billion stock buyback program and a 21% increase in its quarterly dividend, while reaffirming its forecast for the current quarter. This buyback, with no specified timeframe, is \u200cin \u2060addition to the \u2060company&#8217;s existing share repurchase authorization, which stood at $3.94 billion as of December 31, 2025. KLA&#8217;s shares have risen more than 20% this year, after a nearly 93% jump last year, driven by relentless investment in data center infrastructure for artificial intelligence tech and the chips that \u2060power it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}