NASDAQ:AMAT - Applied Materials Stock Price, Price Target & More

Applied Materials trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AMAT."

Applied Materials announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 14th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Thursday, June 14th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.57%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 23rd. This is a positive change from Applied Materials's previous quarterly dividend of $0.10. View Applied Materials' Dividend History.

Applied Materials declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Thursday, February 15th 2018, which permits the company to buyback $6,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 17th. The manufacturing equipment provider reported $1.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.14 by $0.08. The manufacturing equipment provider had revenue of $4.57 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.45 billion. Applied Materials had a return on equity of 51.65% and a net margin of 19.24%. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.79 earnings per share. View Applied Materials' Earnings History.

Applied Materials is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August, 16th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Applied Materials.

Applied Materials updated its third quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 17th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.13-1.21 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $1.16. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.33-4.53 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.54 billion.

23 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Applied Materials' shares. Their forecasts range from $52.00 to $80.00. On average, they anticipate Applied Materials' share price to reach $64.8261 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Applied Materials.

Applied Materials saw a drop in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 15,039,693 shares, a drop of 10.7% from the April 30th total of 16,832,480 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 11,324,231 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.3 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

Some companies that are related to Applied Materials include Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. (TSM), NVIDIA (NVDA), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom (AVGO), Micron Technology (MU), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Analog Devices (ADI), Infineon Technologies (IFNNY), Tokyo Electron (TOELY), Kyocera (KYO), Microchip Technology (MCHP), STMicroelectronics (STM), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Xilinx (XLNX) and Maxim Integrated (MXIM).

News headlines about AMAT stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Applied Materials earned a coverage optimism score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the manufacturing equipment provider an impact score of 47.20 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

Applied Materials' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.24%), Northern Trust Corp (1.26%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.05%), Epoch Investment Partners Inc. (1.00%), OppenheimerFunds Inc. (0.78%) and LSV Asset Management (0.64%). Company insiders that own Applied Materials stock include Alexander Karsner, Ali Salehpour, Dennis D Powell, Gary E Dickerson, Omkaram Nalamasu, Stephen R Forrest, Thomas F Larkins and Thomas J Iannotti. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Applied Materials.

AMAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Prudential Financial Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Korea Investment CORP, Sei Investments Co., MUFG Securities EMEA plc and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Company insiders that have sold Applied Materials company stock in the last year include Alexander Karsner, Ali Salehpour, Omkaram Nalamasu, Stephen R Forrest, Thomas F Larkins and Thomas J Iannotti. View Insider Buying and Selling for Applied Materials.

AMAT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Winslow Capital Management LLC, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Sentry Investments Corp., Natixis, Mackay Shields LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group and Toronto Dominion Bank. View Insider Buying and Selling for Applied Materials.

Shares of AMAT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AMAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $50.85.

Applied Materials has a market capitalization of $52.89 billion and generates $14.54 billion in revenue each year. The manufacturing equipment provider earns $3.43 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.25 on an earnings per share basis. Applied Materials employs 18,400 workers across the globe.

Applied Materials' mailing address is 3050 Bowers Avenue P.O. Box 58039, SantaClara CA, 95052. The manufacturing equipment provider can be reached via phone at 408-727-5555 or via email at [email protected]