Applied Materials is a semiconductor equipment & materials business based in the US. Applied Materials shares (AMAT) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $143.58 – an increase of 4.45% over the previous week. Applied Materials employs 36,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $27.6 billion.
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| Latest market close | $143.58 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $123.74 - $254.22 |
| 50-day moving average | $155.56 |
| 200-day moving average | $181.97 |
| Wall St. target price | $203.68 |
| PE ratio | 17.9452 |
| Dividend yield | $1.6 (1.34%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $7.66 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $138.3 from 2025-04-22
| 1 week (2025-04-17) | 0.61% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-03-24) | -10.75% |
| 3 months (2025-01-24) | -25.94% |
| 6 months (2024-10-24) | -24.73% |
| 1 year (2024-04-24) | -29.46% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-04-24) | 23.82% |
| 3 years (2022-04-22) | 25.93% |
| 5 years (2020-04-24) | 179.85% |
Valuing Applied Materials stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Applied Materials's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Applied Materials's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 18x. In other words, Applied Materials shares trade at around 18x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Applied Materials's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.5617. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Applied Materials's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Applied Materials's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $8.5 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Applied Materials's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $27.6 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 30.35% |
| Gross profit TTM | $13.2 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 15.56% |
| Return on equity TTM | 35.19% |
| Profit margin | 22.95% |
| Book value | $22.93 |
| Market Capitalization | $111.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 17.96% of net profits
Recently Applied Materials has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Applied Materials shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Applied Materials's case, that would currently equate to about $1.6 per share.
While Applied Materials's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Applied Materials is investing more in its future growth.
Applied Materials's most recent dividend payout was on 11 June 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 21 May 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Applied Materials's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 16 April 2002 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Applied Materials shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Applied Materials shares which in turn could have impacted Applied Materials's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Applied Materials's shares have ranged in value from as little as $123.7365 up to $254.2158. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Applied Materials's is 1.603. This would suggest that Applied Materials's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor capital equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, and other equipment and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices and solar energy cells. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and internationally.
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