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 Thursday, June 7th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 23rd will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Thursday, September 13th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, August 22nd. View Applied Materials' Dividend History.

Applied Materials announced that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Thursday, February 15th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $6,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) posted its 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 earned $4.57 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.45 billion. Applied Materials had a net margin of 19.24% and a return on equity of 51.65%. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.79 EPS. 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 earnings per share guidance of $1.13-1.21 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus 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 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Applied Materials' shares. Their predictions range from $52.00 to $80.00. On average, they expect Applied Materials' stock price to reach $64.4348 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Applied Materials.

Applied Materials saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 17,996,197 shares, an increase of 19.7% from the May 15th total of 15,039,693 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 18,294,974 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.0 days. Currently, 1.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Applied Materials' Current Options Chain.

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

Headlines about AMAT stock have been trending somewhat positive on Sunday, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news 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 news sentiment score of 0.14 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the manufacturing equipment provider an impact score of 46.24 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

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 $47.96.

Applied Materials has a market capitalization of $49.38 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]