Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $180.89, with 5.01 million shares of worth about $905.6 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -6.32% during that period and on February 12, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.26%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 818.00M shares, out of which, 809.48M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.12% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.87%. Year-to-date (YTD), AMAT shares are showing a performance of 11.23% which decreased to -2.66% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $158.96 but also hit the highest price of $255.89 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Applied Materials Inc shares is 6.78 million. The stock is currently trading -1.05% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.99% for SMA50 and it goes to -8.25% lower than SMA200.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ: AMAT) currently have 818.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.68% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $147.01B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.60. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 21.01, while it has posted earnings per share of $8.61 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.56 and has Quick Ratio of 1.87 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AMAT, volatility over the week remained 1.97% while standing at 2.78% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.60% while it is estimated to increase by 10.44% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.22% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 24.62% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by KeyBanc Capital Markets on January 17, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $225 to it. On December 05, 2024, Morgan Stanley Downgrade their recommendations, while on November 15, 2024, TD Cowen Reiterated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $230. Stock get an Equal weight rating from Barclays on June 05, 2024.
