---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000056978-24-000167"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KLIC"
cik: "0000056978"
company_name: "KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-12-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T12:19:26.695378+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kulicke & Soffa completes $800M buyback, launches new $300M program

## Summary
- Completed $800M repurchase program initiated in FY2017; repurchased ~22.7M shares at avg $35.25/share.
- New $300M share repurchase program authorized; timing and amount depend on market conditions, cash availability.
- Since 2014, cumulative $900M deployed to repurchase 30.9M shares at avg $29.12/share.
- As of fiscal Q4 2024 end, K&S held $577.1M cash & short-term investments; ~54.9M weighted avg shares outstanding.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000056978-24-000167
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KLIC
- cik: 0000056978
- company_name: KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-12-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697824000167/0000056978-24-000167-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697824000167/klic-20241202.htm

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