Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT)

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Applied Materials, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Applied Materials, Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $17 billion in fiscal 2018 to $28 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 13% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 8 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-10-26, Applied Materials, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 57% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 45 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-10-26, Applied Materials, Inc. earned about 34 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 44 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Applied Materials, Inc.'s standing among 97 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $28 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 24.7% ranks in the top 16%; revenue growth of 3.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 42% (its annual reports).

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Applied Materials, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dickerson, Gary E (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2013-09-04, 13.2 years (top 10% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.8 years (top 24%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 19%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Applied Materials, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $7.2 billion against debt of $6.5 billion leaves 2.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 35% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 20.1% of revenue (top 18%); a gross margin of 48.7% (top 38%); research spending of 12.6% of revenue (bottom 35%) (its annual report).

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Applied Materials, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.2% a year over the last three filed years against 7.9% over all 8, slowing (top 41% of its family); the newest year grew 4.4% (bottom 37%); research spending grew 8.8% a year (top 34%); capital spending grew 42.3% a year (top 11%) (its annual reports). Applied Materials, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Semiconductor Systems at $21 billion, Applied Global Services at $6.4 billion. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 77% of revenue (its annual report).

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Applied Materials, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $28 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.7% above the $28 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 28% of its family); net income of $7.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $6.9 billion (top 44%); a net margin of 24.7% against 25.9% before (top 49%) (its annual reports).