Key Facts About Applied Materials – A Stock Overview

By Ken Smith • Thursday, July 03 10:02 • Permanent Link

Applied Materials logged a 0.2% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $190.44 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. AMAT's trading volume is 595,163 compared to the stock's average volume of 8,104,018.

Applied Materials trades -3.3% away from its average analyst target price of $196.95 per share. The 33 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $120.0 to $250.0, and on average have given Applied Materials a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in AMAT, you'll want to know the following:

Applied Materials's current price is 186.6% above its Graham number of $66.44, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Applied Materials has moved -21.7% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 11.9%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 8.23, Applied Materials has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 23.1 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
AMAT has a forward P/E ratio of 19.7 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $9.69 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 8.06 compared to its sector average of 4.19
Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries.
Based in Santa Clara, the company has 36,000 full time employees and a market cap of $152.83 Billion. Applied Materials currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.9%.

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