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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000056978-25-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KLIC"
cik: "0000056978"
company_name: "KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T15:10:36.828874+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kulicke & Soffa reports Q2 net loss $84.5M; plans to exit Electronics Assembly business

## Summary
- Q2 net revenue $162.0M, GAAP net loss $84.5M ($1.59 diluted EPS), non-GAAP net loss $27.9M ($0.52 diluted EPS).
- Board approved cessation of Electronics Assembly equipment business; pre-tax charges of ~$86.6M recorded in Q2.
- Gross margin 24.9% vs 9.6% year ago; operating loss $84.7M (operating margin -52.3%).
- Non-GAAP operating loss $27.4M; revenue down 5.9% YoY and 2.5% sequentially.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000056978-25-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KLIC
- cik: 0000056978
- company_name: KULICKE & SOFFA INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697825000054/0000056978-25-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56978/000005697825000054/klic-20250506.htm

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