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Issuer:     KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC (KLIC)
CIK:        0000056978
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000056978-22-000030
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

K&S declares $0.17 quarterly dividend, ups buyback by $400M to $800M
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- Board declared quarterly dividend of $0.17 per share, payable April 11, 2022 to holders of record March 24, 2022.
- Share repurchase authorization increased by $400M to $800M; program extended to August 1, 2025.
- Remaining authorization of $492.2M; $24.4M deployed in Q2 FY2022 to repurchase 459.7K shares.
- Since June 2018, company has paid ~$121M in dividends; quarterly dividend increased 42% from $0.12 to $0.17.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697822000030/0000056978-22-000030-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697822000030/klic-20220303.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000056978-22-000030

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