Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -0.20% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $137.91.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $138.19, falling within a range of $136.94 and $139.1499. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.603 whereas the PE ratio is 18.04 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $255.89, and the low was $123.74. On the whole, AMAT has fluctuated by -10.71% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Applied Materials Inc currently standing at about $112.05 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 1.16%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 28.77B, with a low estimate of 7.07B and a high estimate of 7.21B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 7.11B.
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 2.21, with the price of AMAT currently trading nearly -3.76% and -11.35% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 43.33, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.30% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.22%. Furthermore, Applied Materials Inc (AMAT)’s beta value is 1.68, and its average true range (ATR) is 8.15.
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 -0.20% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -34.16%%.
Data on historical trading for Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 13.17 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 7.93 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 17.49 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.51. According to the data, the short interest in Applied Materials Inc (AMAT) stood at 216.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 19.35 million. The stock has fallen by -15.20% 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.
