Compare Stocks: LRCX, AMAT, AMD, and KLAC

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AMAT Applied Materials	$492.32 -0.8%	$562.67	$154.46 ▼ $739.67	$390.88B	1.61	8.05 million shs	5.53 million shs
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	$473.25 +0.8%	$511.40	$149.22 ▼ $584.73	$772.57B	2.48	27.19 million shs	14.29 million shs
KLAC KLA	$183.99 -1.0%	$220.05	$83.22 ▼ $307.37	$240.39B	1.45	11.81 million shs	8.91 million shs
LRCX Lam Research	$314.00 +1.1%	$337.47	$94.11 ▼ $438.50	$392.91B	1.84	10.75 million shs	5.94 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AMAT Applied Materials	-0.78%	-2.93%	-11.12%	+13.92%	+205.86%
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	+0.81%	-8.00%	-14.32%	+1.23%	+186.47%
KLAC KLA	-1.01%	-9.68%	-14.30%	-2.57%	+109.45%
LRCX Lam Research	+1.12%	-5.52%	-1.66%	+2.83%	+216.69%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AMAT Applied Materials	$492.32 -0.8%	$562.67	$154.46 ▼ $739.67	$390.88B	1.61	8.05 million shs	5.53 million shs
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	$473.25 +0.8%	$511.40	$149.22 ▼ $584.73	$772.57B	2.48	27.19 million shs	14.29 million shs
KLAC KLA	$183.99 -1.0%	$220.05	$83.22 ▼ $307.37	$240.39B	1.45	11.81 million shs	8.91 million shs
LRCX Lam Research	$314.00 +1.1%	$337.47	$94.11 ▼ $438.50	$392.91B	1.84	10.75 million shs	5.94 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AMAT Applied Materials	-0.78%	-2.93%	-11.12%	+13.92%	+205.86%
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	+0.81%	-8.00%	-14.32%	+1.23%	+186.47%
KLAC KLA	-1.01%	-9.68%	-14.30%	-2.57%	+109.45%
LRCX Lam Research	+1.12%	-5.52%	-1.66%	+2.83%	+216.69%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AMAT Applied Materials	2.88	Moderate Buy	$659.83	34.02% Upside
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	2.80	Moderate Buy	$546.95	15.57% Upside
KLAC KLA	2.72	Moderate Buy	$223.70	21.58% Upside
LRCX Lam Research	2.88	Moderate Buy	$358.47	14.16% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest LRCX, AMAT, AMD, and KLAC Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/20/2026	AMD Advanced Micro Devices	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Outperform	$550.00
8/20/2026	AMD Advanced Micro Devices	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Outperform
8/18/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	Argus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$600.00
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Buy	$705.00 ➝ $675.00
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	Craig Hallum Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$530.00 ➝ $585.00
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$605.00
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight	$646.00 ➝ $642.00
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$675.00 ➝ $700.00
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$720.00 ➝ $650.00
8/14/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$705.00 ➝ $675.00

(Data available from 8/22/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AMAT Applied Materials	$28.37B	13.78	$10.02 per share	49.15	$32.28 per share	15.25
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	$34.64B	22.30	$5.17 per share	91.62	$41.18 per share	11.49
KLAC KLA	$13.58B	17.70	$4.06 per share	45.35	$4.86 per share	37.86
LRCX Lam Research	$23.23B	16.91	$6.29 per share	49.95	$9.97 per share	31.49

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AMAT Applied Materials	$7.00B	$11.60	42.44	27.10	1.06	30.05%	38.02%	22.09%	N/A
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	$4.34B	$3.89	121.66	35.13	N/A	15.58%	12.30%	9.89%	11/3/2026 (Estimated)
KLAC KLA	$4.83B	$3.67	50.17	28.13	1.43	35.57%	87.66%	29.23%	10/28/2026 (Estimated)
LRCX Lam Research	$7.27B	$5.76	54.51	27.67	1.23	31.27%	67.60%	33.48%	10/21/2026 (Estimated)

Latest LRCX, AMAT, AMD, and KLAC Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/13/2026	Q3 2026	AMAT Applied Materials	$3.40	$3.50	+$0.10	$3.17	$8.99 billion	$9.12 billion
8/4/2026	Q2 2026	AMD Advanced Micro Devices	$1.62	$1.66	+$0.04	$1.38	$11.31 billion	$11.54 billion
7/29/2026	Q4 2026	LRCX Lam Research	$1.69	$1.82	+$0.13	$1.81	$6.66 billion	$6.72 billion
7/28/2026	Q4 2026	KLAC KLA	$1.00	$1.05	+$0.05	$1.04	$3.61 billion	$3.66 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AMAT Applied Materials	$2.12	0.43%	+14.87%	18.28%	8 Years
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KLAC KLA	$0.92	0.50%	+17.32%	25.07%	16 Years
LRCX Lam Research	$1.04	0.33%	+14.87%	18.06%	10 Years

Latest LRCX, AMAT, AMD, and KLAC Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
6/9/2026	AMAT Applied Materials	quarterly	$0.53	0.43%	8/20/2026	8/20/2026	9/10/2026
8/6/2026	KLAC KLA	quarterly	$0.23	0.45%	8/17/2026	8/17/2026	9/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AMAT Applied Materials	0.20	2.42	1.79
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	0.03	2.61	1.91
KLAC KLA	0.93	2.88	2.03
LRCX Lam Research	0.30	2.63	1.91

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Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AMAT Applied Materials	80.56%
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	71.34%
KLAC KLA	86.65%
LRCX Lam Research	84.61%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AMAT Applied Materials	0.30%
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	0.50%
KLAC KLA	91.48%
LRCX Lam Research	0.31%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AMAT Applied Materials	36,500	793.96 million	791.58 million	Optionable
AMD Advanced Micro Devices	31,000	1.63 billion	1.62 billion	Optionable
KLAC KLA	17,200	1.31 billion	111.32 million	Optionable
LRCX Lam Research	23,300	1.25 billion	1.25 billion	Optionable

LRCX, AMAT, AMD, and KLAC Headlines

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J. M. Brown & Associates Inc. Invests $1.49 Million in Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 22 at 4:47 AM | marketbeat.com

Nations Financial Group Inc. IA ADV Purchases 7,651 Shares of Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 22 at 4:39 AM | marketbeat.com

Exchange Traded Concepts LLC Acquires 79,850 Shares of Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 22 at 3:30 AM | marketbeat.com

Atlatl Advisers LLC Acquires 14,442 Shares of Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 22 at 3:11 AM | marketbeat.com

ABN Amro Investment Solutions Increases Stock Position in Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 22 at 3:07 AM | marketbeat.com

Lam Research (NASDAQ:LRCX) Trading Up 1.1% - Should You Buy?

August 21 at 5:39 PM | marketbeat.com

Is Lam Research (LRCX) Outperforming Other Computer and Technology Stocks This Year?

August 21 at 1:09 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Is Lam Research (LRCX) Outperforming Other Computer and Technology Stocks This Year?

August 21 at 10:40 AM | zacks.com

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. Has $645.77 Million Position in Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 21 at 4:47 AM | marketbeat.com

Lam Research Corporation $LRCX Shares Bought by E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd.

August 21 at 3:35 AM | marketbeat.com

Franchise GP Ltd Makes New Investment in Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 21 at 3:35 AM | marketbeat.com

Applied Materials (AMAT) Beat Estimates and Investors Sold Anyway. Lam Research Corporation (LRCX) Didn’t Have That Problem

August 20 at 9:50 PM | insidermonkey.com

Lam Research (NASDAQ:LRCX) Shares Up 1.1% - Here's What Happened

August 20 at 5:19 PM | marketbeat.com

Oak Thistle LLC Sells 15,967 Shares of Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 20 at 5:03 AM | marketbeat.com

Legacy Private Trust Co. Buys 4,648 Shares of Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 20 at 4:55 AM | marketbeat.com

Triasima Portfolio Management inc. Decreases Stake in Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 20 at 4:55 AM | marketbeat.com

Lam Research Corporation $LRCX Shares Sold by Envestnet Portfolio Solutions Inc.

August 20 at 3:36 AM | marketbeat.com

Fulcrum Capital LLC Sells 5,127 Shares of Lam Research Corporation $LRCX

August 20 at 3:36 AM | marketbeat.com

Lam Research Corp. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors

August 19 at 5:41 PM | marketwatch.com

Lam Research (NASDAQ:LRCX) Trading Down 6.3% - Should You Sell?

August 19 at 5:19 PM | marketbeat.com

Applied Materials Falls 4%, Lam Research and Teradyne Sink 5%: What's Prompting the Selloff in Chip Equipment Stocks?

August 19 at 1:14 PM | 247wallst.com

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LRCX, AMAT, AMD, and KLAC Company Descriptions

Applied Materials NASDAQ:AMAT

$492.32 -3.89 (-0.78%)

As of 08/21/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

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 and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment also offers various technologies, including epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation/nitridation, rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, electrochemical deposition, atomic layer deposition, etching, and selective deposition and removal, as well as metrology and inspection tools. The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. The company was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Advanced Micro Devices NASDAQ:AMD

$473.25 +3.80 (+0.81%)

As of 08/21/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. It operates through Data Center, Client, Gaming, and Embedded segments. The company offers x86 microprocessors and graphics processing units (GPUs) as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, data center, and professional GPUs; and embedded processors, and semi-custom system-on-chip (SoC) products, microprocessor and SoC development services and technology, data processing unites, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and adaptive SoC products. It provides processors under the AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen PRO, Ryzen Threadripper, Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon PRO, and AMD PRO A-Series brand names; graphics under the AMD Radeon graphics and AMD Embedded Radeon graphics; and professional graphics under the AMD Radeon Pro graphics brand name. In addition, the company offers data center graphics under the Radeon Instinct and Radeon PRO V-series brands, as well as servers under the AMD Instinct accelerators brand; server microprocessors under the AMD EPYC brands; low power solutions under the AMD Athlon, AMD Geode, AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC, AMD R-Series, and G-Series brands; FPGA products under the Virtex-6, Virtex-7, Virtex UltraScale+, Kintex-7, Kintex UltraScale, Kintex UltraScale+, Artix-7, Artix UltraScale+, Spartan-6, and Spartan-7 brands; adaptive SOCs under the Zynq-7000, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs, Versal HBM, Versal Premium, Versal Prime, Versal AI Core, Versal AI Edge, Vitis, and Vivado brands; and compute and network acceleration board products under the Alveo brand. It serves original equipment and design manufacturers, public cloud service providers, system integrators, independent distributors, and add-in-board manufacturers through its direct sales force, and sales representatives. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

KLA NASDAQ:KLAC

$183.99 -1.87 (-1.01%)

As of 08/21/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems that are used to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticle inspection and metrology systems; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Lam Research NASDAQ:LRCX

$314.00 +3.47 (+1.12%)

As of 08/21/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The company offers ALTUS systems to deposit conformal films for tungsten metallization applications; SABRE electrochemical deposition products for copper interconnect transition that offers copper damascene manufacturing; SOLA ultraviolet thermal processing products for film treatments; and VECTOR plasma-enhanced CVD ALD products. It also provides SPEED gapfill high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition products; and Striker single-wafer atomic layer deposition products for dielectric film solutions. In addition, the company offers Flex for dielectric etch applications; Kiyo for conductor etch applications; Syndion for through-silicon via etch applications; and Versys metal products for metal etch processes. Further, it provides Coronus bevel clean products to enhance die yield; Da Vinci, DV-Prime, EOS, and SP series products to address various wafer cleaning applications; and Metryx mass metrology systems for high precision in-line mass measurement in semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The company sells its products and services to semiconductors industry in the United States, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

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