APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE
At today's price, APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE (AMAT) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~15.3 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Applied Materials makes the wafer-fabrication tools that nearly every chipmaker needs, with two thirds of revenue in Semiconductor Systems and another quarter in the higher-margin services business that runs and maintains the installed base of equipment. • The earnings trajectory is the story: the most recent quarter set records on revenue at $7.91 billion and GAAP earnings of $3.51 a share, with gross margin near 50%, and management guides the next quarter to roughly $8.95 billion in revenue
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2,864 institutional managers reported holding AMAT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 78% of the company; the top 10 hold 37%. 396 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 21.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (2.2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AMAT has cut its share count 12.6% over the past five years, spending $20.79B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 8 years straight; the current rate is $1.78 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.84B in dividends and $10.63B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at AMAT over the trailing three years: 2025: 2 buys totaling $6.87M. 17 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AMAT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-27 | +1.1% | +11.7% |
| 2023-08-25 | +3.1% | -9.0% |
| 2023-12-16 | +2.9% | +23.2% |
| 2024-02-28 | +7.2% | -1.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AMAT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-14 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-13 (items 5.07); 2026-02-12 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-12 (items 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2025-11-13 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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