Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -0.15% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $147.46.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $147.68, falling within a range of $146.52 and $149.79. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.619 whereas the PE ratio is 19.29 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $255.89, and the low was $145.37. On the whole, AMAT has fluctuated by -5.86% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Applied Materials Inc currently standing at about $119.80 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-12. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.60, with its dividend yield at 1.09%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that AMAT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.39, with the price of AMAT currently trading nearly -3.10% and -12.08% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 36.29, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.96% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.39%. Furthermore, Applied Materials Inc (AMAT)’s beta value is 1.61, and its average true range (ATR) is 5.00.
A comparison of Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. AMAT showed an intraday change of -0.15% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -28.65%%.
Data on historical trading for Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.27 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 6.76 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 812.44 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.26% of Applied Materials Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 81.77% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 20.31 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.64. According to the data, the short interest in Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) stood at 251.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 18.67 million. The stock has fallen by -9.33% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the AMAT stock heading into the next quarter.
