Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT): Price and Financial Metrics

AMAT POWR Grades

• AMAT scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 90.37% of US stocks.
• AMAT's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• AMAT's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 47.47% of US stocks).

AMAT Stock Summary

• AMAT has a market capitalization of $124,947,337,740 -- more than approximately 98.04% of US stocks.
• Applied Materials Inc's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• Of note is the ratio of Applied Materials Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 14.86% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Applied Materials Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be AMD, MU, LRCX, REGN, and KLAC.
• Visit AMAT's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.appliedmaterials.com.

AMAT Valuation Summary

• AMAT's price/sales ratio is 5.6; this is 5.66% higher than that of the median Technology stock.
• Over the past 243 months, AMAT's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.9.
• Over the past 243 months, AMAT's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 4.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AMAT.

AMAT Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 116.68%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 131.86%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 61.37%.

AMAT's revenue has moved up $6,970,000,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows AMAT's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	24,172	6,679	6,550
2021-09-30	23,063	5,442	5,888
2021-06-30	21,628	5,609	5,307
2021-03-31	19,827	4,790	4,432
2020-12-31	18,202	4,238	3,857
2020-09-30	17,202	3,804	3,619

AMAT's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AMAT has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 85.5% of graded US stocks.
• AMAT's asset turnover comes in at 0.918 -- ranking 55th of 208 Electronic Equipment stocks.
• BDR, MPWR, and ADI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AMAT.

The table below shows AMAT's key quality metrics over time.