It's Time For a Quick Look at Applied Materials's Fundamentals.

By Harris Dyer • Wednesday, December 06 13:01 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Applied Materials, a Semiconductors company whose shares moved -0.3% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Applied Materials has moved 38.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 17.0%
AMAT has an average analyst rating of buy and is -9.36% away from its mean target price of $160.76 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $8.11
Applied Materials has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 18.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $8.96 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 7.45 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Applied Materials is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 35.0 and an average P/B of 7.92
AMAT has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 28.7% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $5.58 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. It 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. The company operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Applied Materials, Inc. was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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