$4.68 -0.05 (-1.06%)
11/6/2009 4:00 PM

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (KLIC)

CAPS Rating: 3 out of 5

The Company designs, manufactures & markets capital equipment & packaging materials as well as service, maintain, repair & upgrade equipment, all used to assemble semiconductor devices. Currently supplies semiconductor wire bonding assembly equipment.

Current Price $4.68 Mkt Cap $286.91M
Open $4.64 P/E Ratio 55.67
Prev. Close $4.73 Div. (Yield) N/A (N/A)
Daily Range $4.58 - $4.98 Volume 490,962
52-Wk Range $1.11 - $6.68 Avg. Daily Vol. 644,000

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Lordrobot (96.43)
Submitted July 14, 2008

K&S has several new innovations. 1) wire bonders now can be switched from gold to copper. 2) new machines are vastly more superior. 3) complex chips need wirebonder packaging. 4) Ramp up is very fast so this company will lead the four year semi… More

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Member Avatar SemiChamp (< 20) Submitted: 8/24/2009 12:53:56 PM : Outperform Start Price: $5.40 KLIC Score: -17.42

This company is driven by chip units and factory utilization - both are headed up as industry emerges from recession. Classic early warning sign. Company has hired back 500 direct labor in last quarter to increase capacity to meet increasing demand.

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Member Avatar johnnyb39 (67.26) Submitted: 5/2/2009 3:16:56 AM : Outperform Start Price: $3.87 KLIC Score: -1.32

Very impressed with performance and I expect it's trend to continue. Buy.

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Member Avatar Lordrobot (96.43) Submitted: 7/14/2008 4:05:26 AM : Outperform Start Price: $6.41 KLIC Score: -15.15

K&S has several new innovations. 1) wire bonders now can be switched from gold to copper. 2) new machines are vastly more superior. 3) complex chips need wirebonder packaging. 4) Ramp up is very fast so this company will lead the four year semi cycle. 5) Company has 95% of the market and has channels for dicers. 6) Large Asian footprint. 7) oversold 8) grossly undervalued.

Everything in the marketplace is reacting to oil speculation and the press over financials. This is completely misplaced. The gov can't allow Fanny or Freddy to fail. Yet housing must lose the entire bubble value and return tot he eighty year line of roughly 1980s. Bubbles in real property are damaging to all businesses due to the wage price inflation. We are only backed down to the year 2005 in housing prices. So the markets have a lot more to go but the decline is orderly. In order to soften the blow, it will be necessary for the Feds to bail out the mortgages. I don't like the idea but it will nevertheless prevent a capitulation.

As for oil, the speculators in the commodities are in real danger of a collapse in the oil markets. Do not believe in demand or in peak oil. this is propaganda. To prove it we have had no shortages, we have decreased use of oil by 4% and we have produced more oil not less as peak oil believers would imply. The fed must clamp down on the speculators use of leverage and margin in a step wise fashion. If they don't, and oil folds then some big players including pension funds will be on the dire side of the trade and will cause huge damage to the economy.

Thus, when the fed finally acts to curtail the speculation and the Treasury and the Congress bails out the mortgage biz, the economy will be restored to sanity. Understand however that housing prices will fall dramatically but this will be good for manufacturing because it reduces the cost of labor. Companies with big Asian footprints will be immune from most of the crazy speculation in housing and commodities especially since KLIC has untethered itself from gold.

Expect to see KLIC start to rise at the end of August in earnest and soar to 24 by December.

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translator999 (99.97) Score: +155.04

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nbtoro < 20 10/27/2008 Outperform 1Y $2.56 +82.81% +27.07% +55.74
icu2uqt 37.91 11/24/2006 Underperform 3W $8.20 -42.93% -18.92% +24.01
yiluwuyu 64.40 8/6/2007 Underperform NS $8.62 -45.71% -21.80% +23.91
mdjuranovic < 20 10/10/2008 Outperform NS $3.13 +49.52% +26.69% +22.84
SSPX911 99.50 5/14/2009 Outperform NS $3.25 +44.00% +22.01% +21.99
PBuffett 49.32 8/15/2007 Underperform 1Y $8.04 -41.79% -20.33% +21.46
drivenbyhks < 20 10/8/2008 Outperform NS $3.50 +33.71% +12.89% +20.82
gbacon102358 69.86 4/1/2008 Outperform 3M $4.83 -3.11% -16.89% +13.79
BrokeToBroker 99.09 7/7/2009 Outperform 5Y $3.52 +32.95% +19.99% +12.96
foolishfun4me < 20 5/11/2009 Outperform 1Y $3.58 +30.73% +18.04% +12.68

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TrackJefferies 75.83 8/20/2009 Outperform NS $5.09 -8.06% +9.49% -17.54
TrackBroadpoint.AmTech 73.02 6/16/2008 Outperform NS $6.83 -31.48% -18.49% -12.99
TrackOppenheimer 26.63 4/8/2008 Outperform NS $5.55 -15.68% -18.45% +2.78
TrackMerriman < 20 2/11/2008 Outperform NS $5.45 -0.92% +0.49% -1.41 2/11/2008 @ $5.40
TrackMatrix 89.45 2/20/2007 Underperform NS $9.76 -52.05% -21.88% +30.17
TrackBroadpoint.AmTech 73.02 2/6/2007 Outperform NS $9.50 -36.63% +0.10% -36.73 1/8/2008 @ $6.02
TrackJimCramer < 20 3/16/2006 Outperform 3W $8.99 -47.94% -12.24% -35.70

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