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Applied Materials Inc

NASDAQ: AMAT Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
$409.29
▼ $20.72 (−4.82%) today
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AMAT at a Glance

Valuation
Market cap
$324.8B
P/E ratio
35.3
Dividend yield
0.46%
Profitability
Revenue (TTM)
$30.8B
Profit margin
30.0%
EPS (TTM)
$11.59
Price
52-week range
$202 – $739
24/7 target
$521.65
Street target
$627.83
Earnings
Next report
Nov 12, 2026
Q3 2026 EPS
$3.50
vs. $3.39 est.
+3.1%

Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA Fiscal year ends October NASDAQ: AMAT appliedmaterials.com

About Applied Materials

Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) provides materials engineering solutions used in the manufacture of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display. The company operates through three reportable segments: Semiconductor Systems, which designs, manufactures, and sells equipment for wafer fabrication across deposition, etch, chemical mechanical planarization, metrology, and inspection; Applied Global Services, which provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance including spares, upgrades, services, and 200mm equipment; and a Display and Other segment. Applied's technology enables advances in AI computing, advanced packaging (including high bandwidth memory), leading-edge foundry-logic nodes, and next-generation display systems. The company's EPIC Center serves as a collaborative R&D hub with chipmakers, universities, and innovation partners to accelerate commercialization of breakthrough semiconductor technologies. Applied is also expanding into augmented reality and smart eyewear through its SENZ platform and a joint development agreement with EssilorLuxottica. Updated

Revenue by Segment · Q3 2026
  1. Semiconductor Systems77%
  2. Applied Global Services20%
  3. Other (including Display)3%

Latest Activity

Reddit Pulser/stocks
Best "Buy the Dip" Stocks This Week?

Everyone post their bags, quickly.

Retail's dip list is almost entirely the AI semi complex, yet the thread's top-voted replies are sitting on their hands until the midterms. When 216 comments can't agree whether a selloff is a sale or a top, position sizing is what decides the outcome.

Biggest movers · At the close
  • NVTSNavitas Semiconductor$10.52+5.3%
  • VLOValero Energy$457.04+4.8%
  • ORCLOracle$143.28+4.3%
  • MPCMarathon Petroleum$476.94+4.0%
  • BPBP$48.57+3.9%
  • CIFRCipher Digital$11.29-13.1%
  • AMATApplied Materials$462.77-7.0%
  • SSentinelOne$24.05-6.3%
  • FNFabrinet$427.9-6.2%
  • GTLBGitLab$52.7-5.9%

Cipher Digital's 13.1% drop was the deepest cut in a 385-name priority list at the close. Refiners and Oracle took the other side.

Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/5/26

  • Cramer flags a broken pattern: oil fell while the 30-year yield climbed to 5.66%, near 6%
  • Nasdaq's record close carried by Microsoft on Copilot, Meta's small-business ad shift, and Nvidia's all-time high
  • Saudis discounting crude $5 below the Oman/Dubai benchmark is market share defense, not a fading war premium
  • Caller questions on Intuitive Surgical as a broken stock, plus KLA, Domino's and SoFi

Cramer's warning: strip out Microsoft, Nvidia and Meta and the safety names were hit, meaning three stocks are carrying the index. He says the bond market tells the truth longer term, and the 30-year at 5.66% caps any broad rally. Owning the hyperscalers has been the only trade that worked.

Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/2/26

  • 29,000 September jobs eased rate-hike fears; G7 releasing 100 million barrels capped oil's rally
  • PepsiCo called uninvestable into Thursday earnings: down 12% this year while Coca-Cola is up 22.5%
  • Nvidia compute scarcity framed as the real money-maker behind data center and Starlink demand
  • Caller verdicts on Applied Materials, Simon Property Group, Goldman Sachs and Duke Energy at a 3.8% yield

A 4.7% PepsiCo yield loses to the 10-year, so any bounce off Thursday's earnings report is just a trade. Cramer stays long AI compute while telling snack and beer holders the consumer shift is structural.

Biggest movers · At the close
  • BEBloom Energy$292.34+11.2%
  • RCLRoyal Caribbean Cruises$260.42+7.3%
  • LITELumentum$972.47+5.5%
  • DUOLDuolingo$141.67+5.5%
  • AMATApplied Materials$512.29+5.2%
  • AMCAMC Entertainment$3.05-7.5%
  • DKNGDraftKings$19.62-7.3%
  • ASANAsana$8.28-4.2%
  • FUBOfuboTV$9.1-3.7%
  • SLBSchlumberger$49.63-3.6%

Bloom Energy closed up 11.21% at $292.34, the only double-digit gain in a 383-name priority list. The other end was just as loud: AMC and DraftKings both gave up more than 7%.

Biggest movers · On the open
  • BEBloom Energy$283.36+7.8%
  • RCLRoyal Caribbean Cruises$257.13+6.0%
  • AMATApplied Materials$506.36+4.0%
  • VRTVertiv$251.75+3.2%
  • GLWCorning$156.24+3.1%
  • IQiQIYI$0.98-4.8%
  • BUDAnheuser-Busch InBev$74.09-3.9%
  • SLBSchlumberger$50.02-2.9%
  • EQNREquinor$41.1-2.8%
  • BTIBritish American Tobacco$54.65-2.5%

Bloom Energy opened 7.79% higher, the widest move in a 383-stock board where nothing else on either side cleared 6%. Energy names sit on the losing end, with iQIYI the weakest at -4.81% and still under a dollar.

  • AMATApplied Materials, Inc. - Common Stock (AMAT)Buy$1K – $15KAug 6
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  • MSFTMicrosoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT)Sell$250K – $500KAug 14
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  • CommonBuy$1K – $15KAug 6
  • QSRRestaurant Brands International Inc. Common Shares (QSR)Buy$1K – $15KAug 6
Made public 39 days after the earliest trade

Four paired Microsoft option legs on a single day, each reported in ranges as large as $1 million, dwarf everything else in this filing and point to a structured position rather than a casual buy. The small AMAT and Restaurant Brands purchases are rounding errors next to it. Disclosure came 39 days after the trades, so the setup has already had a month to work.

Biggest dividend payouts · Aug 20
MSFTMicrosoft
$6.8B$0.91 per share
  • 2AMATApplied Materials$0.53/sh$421M
  • 3MARMarriott International$0.73/sh$190M
  • 4SBACSBA Communications$1.25/sh$133M
  • 5LKQLKQ$0.30/sh$75.9M

Microsoft is sending shareholders about $6.76 billion, 91 cents a share, with the money arriving September 10. Applied Materials, Marriott, SBA Communications and LKQ are paying too, but nothing else today comes close.

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Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) provides materials engineering solutions used in the manufacture of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display.

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