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Issuer:     KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC (KLIC)
CIK:        0000056978
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000056978-23-000167
Event type: dividend
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Kulicke & Soffa raises quarterly dividend to $0.20/share, 4th straight annual increase
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- Dividend increased by $0.01 to $0.20 per share; payable Jan 9, 2024 to holders of record Dec 21, 2023.
- Fourth consecutive annual dividend raise, consistent with shareholder return strategy.
- In FY2023, K&S returned $111.2M via dividends and share repurchases; repurchased 1.5M shares (~2.6% of share count).
- President CEO cites execution in HPC, co-packaged optics, and heterogeneous integration as growth drivers.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697823000167/0000056978-23-000167-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697823000167/klic-20231115.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000056978-23-000167

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