Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $155.81, with 5.5 million shares of worth about $856.67 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -15.03% during that period and on May 07, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.82%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 812.44M shares, out of which, 810.31M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 3.38% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 17.28%. Year-to-date (YTD), AMAT shares are showing a performance of -4.19% which decreased to -23.66% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $123.74 but also hit the highest price of $255.89 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Applied Materials Inc shares is 7.89 million. The stock is currently trading 6.13% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 4.95% for SMA50 and it goes to -11.54% lower than SMA200.
Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ: AMAT) currently have 812.44M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.10% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $126.59B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.69. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.38, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.64 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.50 and has Quick Ratio of 1.96 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 2.32% while standing at 4.38% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.98% while it is estimated to increase by 7.14% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.14% 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 Jefferies on March 28, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $195 to it. Stock get an Underweight rating from Morgan Stanley on December 05, 2024.
