Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ: AMAT) on Monday, soared 3.49% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $170.59. Within the past 52 weeks, AMAT’s price has moved between $123.74 and $255.89.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Technology Sector giant was 13.22%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 9.86%. With a float of $800.37 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $802.50 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 35700 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 48.14%, operating margin of 29.66%, and the pretax margin is 29.53%.
Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Semiconductor Equipment & Materials industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Applied Materials Inc is 0.27%, while institutional ownership is 80.73%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 03 ’25, was worth 6,865,082. In this transaction President and CEO of this company bought 50,000 shares at a rate of $137.30, taking the stock ownership to the 1,716,058 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 01 ’25, when Company’s Corp. Controller & CAO sold 450 for $144.83, making the entire transaction worth $65,174. This insider now owns 6,077 shares in total.
Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.86% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.62% during the next five years compared to 24.62% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ: AMAT) Trading Performance Indicators
Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.76 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.05. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 24.17.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.22, a number that is poised to hit 2.35 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 10.08 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Applied Materials Inc (AMAT)
Looking closely at Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ: AMAT), its last 5-days average volume was 5.66 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 7.44 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 89.13%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 5.03.
During the past 100 days, Applied Materials Inc’s (AMAT) raw stochastic average was set at 78.20%, which indicates a significant decrease from 98.59% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 26.71% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 50.91% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $155.88, while its 200-day Moving Average is $171.42. However, in the short run, Applied Materials Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $178.02. Second resistance stands at $179.50. The third major resistance level sits at $182.11. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $173.93, it is likely to go to the next support level at $171.32. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $169.84.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ: AMAT) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 141.68 billion based on 802,498K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 27,176 M and income totals 7,177 M. The company made 7,100 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 2,137 M in sales during its previous quarter.
