Kulicke and Soffa Industries designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment and tools used to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits, light-emitting diodes, and power modules. In addition, Co. has a portfolio of equipment that is used to assemble components onto electronic circuit boards. Co. also services, maintains, repairs and upgrades its equipment, and sells consumable aftermarket tools for its and its peer companies' equipment. Co.'s customers primarily consist of semiconductor device manufacturers, integrated device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, other electronics manufacturers and automotive electronics suppliers. The KLIC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the KLIC YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether KLIC YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the KLIC YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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