In last trading session, Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) saw 9.4 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.69. Company’s recent per share price level of $194.81 trading at -$4.48 or -2.25% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $156.33B. That closing price of AMAT’s stock is at a discount of -27.06% from its 52-week high price of $247.52 and is indicating a premium of 36.48% from its 52-week low price of $123.74. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 6.08 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 7.07 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Applied Materials Inc (AMAT), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.76. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 25 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 6 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 19 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -2.25%, in the last five days AMAT remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 07/15/25 when the stock touched $194.81 price level, adding 3.13% to its value on the day. Applied Materials Inc’s shares saw a change of -19.96% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.30% in past 5-day. Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) showed a performance of 14.20% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 16.59 million shares which calculate 2.21 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 195 to the stock, which implies a rise of 0.1% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 162 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 220. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 16.84% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 16.84% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 24.62% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 9.91% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 8.61%.
AMAT Dividends
Applied Materials Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-15 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 0.85%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.66 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.86%.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.27% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 83.33 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 83.56%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 83.33% institutions for Applied Materials Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at AMAT for having 79.11 million shares of worth $18.67 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.5775 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 76.12 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.2157 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $17.96 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 25.66 shares of worth $5.0 billion or 3.20% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 22.58 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $4.4 billion in the company or a holder of 2.81% of company’s stock.
