Witnessing the stock’s movement on the chart, on Thursday, Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) had a quiet start as it plunged -2.04% to $202.32, before settling in for the price of $206.53 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, AMAT posted a 52-week range of $129.21-$255.89.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Technology sector firm’s annual sales growth was 10.73%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 22.34%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 4.38%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $833.00 million, simultaneously with a float of $824.95 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $167.52 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $228.19, while the 200-day Moving Average is $187.35.
Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) Ownership Facts and Figures
Nothing is more important than checking the behaviour of major investors towards the stock of the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials industry. Applied Materials Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.37%, in contrast to 80.43% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Jun 21 ’24, this organization’s Director sold 9,827 shares at the rate of 236.65, making the entire transaction reach 2,325,560 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 49,185. Preceding that transaction, on Jun 18 ’24, Company’s President and CEO sold 400,000 for 246.45, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 98,579,111. This particular insider is now the holder of 1,542,269 in total.
Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) Earnings and Revenue Records
As on 4/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 1.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 1.65) by 0.16. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.14 per share during the current fiscal year.
Applied Materials Inc.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 4.38% and is forecasted to reach 9.72 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 15.38% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 22.34% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.97. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 8.68. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $23.25, and its Beta score is 1.56. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 6.33. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 24.62.
In the same vein, AMAT’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 8.70, a figure that is expected to reach 2.03 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 9.72 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT)
Going through the that latest performance of [Applied Materials Inc., AMAT]. Its last 5-days volume of 7.38 million indicated improvement to the volume of 5.77 million it revealed a year ago. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 9.38% While, its Average True Range was 9.39.
Raw Stochastic average of Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 22.40%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 3.58% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 64.54% that was higher than 37.15% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
