In the last trading session, 8.09 million shares of the Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) were traded, and its beta was 1.70. Most recently the company’s share price was $194.99, and it changed around $4.21 or 2.21% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $156.48B. AMAT currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $255.89, offering almost -31.23% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $123.74, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 36.54% since then. We note from Applied Materials Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 6.98 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 7.70 million.
Applied Materials Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.78. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 40 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 6 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 12 recommended AMAT as a Hold, whereas 21 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Applied Materials Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 2.35 for the current quarter.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) trade information
Instantly AMAT has showed a green trend with a performance of 2.21% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 196.30 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.67%. The company’s shares are currently down -19.86% year-to-date, but still up 6.51% over the last five days. On the other hand, Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) is 18.76% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 16.59 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.21 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $195, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 0.01% from its current value. Analyst projections state that AMAT is forecast to be at a low of $162 and a high of $220.
Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 5.90%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 24 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 7.21B in revenue for the current quarter. 24 analysts expect Applied Materials Inc to make 7.3B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 6.78B and 7.04B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 6.37%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 3.65%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 24.62%. Applied Materials Inc earnings are expected to increase by 9.82% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 8.54% per year for the next five years.
AMAT Dividends
Applied Materials Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-May-15. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.85 percent and its annual dividend per share was 1.66. It is important to note, however, that the 0.85% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 0.86 per year.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.27% of Applied Materials Inc shares, and 83.33% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 83.56%. Applied Materials Inc stock is held by 2924.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.5775% of the shares, which is about 79.11 million shares worth $18.67 billion.
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 9.2157% or 76.12 million shares worth $17.96 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 25.66 shares worth $5.0 billion, making up 3.20% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 22.58 shares worth around $4.4 billion, which represents about 2.81% of the total shares outstanding.
