Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) stock price, quote and key numbers
Updated 28 September 2026, 09:52 ET
Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) closed at $485.00 on 25 September 2026, up 2.3%. That leaves it up 9.1% over a week, up 1.1% over a month and up 140.8% over a year. That is 53% of the way up its 52 week range of $196.20 to $739.67. The median analyst price target of $683 sits 40.8% above the close.
The price
Changes compare dividend and split adjusted closes over trading sessions, so the one year figure is the last close against the close 252 sessions earlier. The 52 week range uses the daily highs and lows of the same window. Read the guide: How to read a stock quote.
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Trend and range
AMAT trades below its 50 day average of $490.25 but above its 200 day average of $421.42: the long trend is up, the recent one is not. The 50 day average sits above the 200 day average. Its beta against the S&P 500 over the last year is 2.71, a stock that moves a lot more than the market. It is 34.4% below its 52 week high and 147.2% above its 52 week low.
Moving averages smooth the closes of the last 50 and 200 sessions; being above or below them describes the trend, it does not predict it. Beta is how much the stock moved for each move in the S&P 500 over the year. Read the guide: Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta.
What analysts say
In the last 90 days 20 firms recorded 28 actions on AMAT: 26 kept a view, 1 downgrade and 1 new initiation. Price targets: 14 raised and 6 lowered. The most recent targets from 23 firms run from $515 to $900, with a median of $683, 40.8% above the last close.
| Date | Firm | Action | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep 2026 | Morgan Stanley | Maintains Equal-Weight | $642.00 to $563.00 |
| 1 Sep 2026 | UBS | Maintains Buy | $675.00 to $695.00 |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Mizuho | Maintains Outperform | $650.00 to $590.00 |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Argus Research | Maintains Buy | $500.00 to $600.00 |
| 14 Aug 2026 | Cantor Fitzgerald | Reiterates Overweight | $850.00 |
| 14 Aug 2026 | Stifel | Reiterates Buy | $650.00 |
A target is one firm's guess at the price a year out, and the average runs optimistic. The useful reading is the mood: high targets and a wall of buys mean high expectations. Read the guide: What analyst ratings and price targets tell you.
Earnings
The next report is on the calendar for 12 November 2026 for Q4 2026, with earnings per share expected at $4.06. The last report, on 13 August 2026 for Q3 2026, showed EPS of $3.50 against $3.39 expected, a beat of 3.2%, on revenue of $9.1 billion. Applied Materials Inc. beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reported quarters.
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The numbers
Over the trailing twelve months Applied Materials Inc. shows revenue growth of 7.77%, a gross margin of 49.40%, an operating margin of 29.64% and a return on equity of 41.07%.
| Measure | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, TTM | 7.8% | 56th |
| Net income growth, TTM | 35.6% | 67th |
| Gross margin | 49.4% | 63rd |
| Operating margin | 29.6% | 89th |
| Free cash flow margin | 18.2% | 80th |
| Return on equity | 41.1% | 94th |
| Return on assets | 23.8% | 97th |
| Debt to equity | 0.30 | 54th |
| Current ratio | 2.42 | 74th |
| Effective tax rate | 13.6% | 56th |
The percentile ranks the company against every US company the data covers; a high percentile means most companies score lower.
Margins say how much of each dollar of sales becomes profit, returns say how hard the balance sheet works, and debt to equity says how much of it is borrowed. The valuation ratios, price to earnings and the rest, are in the app on the stock page. Read the guide: The valuation ratios on a stock page.
About Applied Materials Inc.
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry
- Electronic Equipment
- Headquarters
- Wilmington, California
- Chief executive
- Gary E. Dickerson
- Employees
- 33,000
- Website
- appliedmaterials.com
Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to semiconductor, display, and related industries. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones.
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Learn
- How to read a stock quote
- Reading a price chart from one day to one year
- Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta
- What analyst ratings and price targets tell you
- The valuation ratios on a stock page
- Price alerts, targets and percent moves
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