Applied Materials, Inc. ($AMAT) Possible Buy to $85 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Applied Materials, Inc.
Stock ticker AMAT
Live stock price [stckqut]AMAT[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $84.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $122.05
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $82.9
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $197.28

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/amat

Applied Materials, Inc. (Applied), incorporated on March 18, 1987, provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the global semiconductor, display and related industries. The Company’s segments are Semiconductor Systems; Applied Global Services; Display and Adjacent Markets, and Corporate and Other. The Semiconductor Systems segment includes semiconductor capital equipment for etching, rapid thermal processing, deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, metrology and inspection, wafer packaging and ion implantation. Its Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity, including spares, upgrades, services, certain remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display and solar products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment includes products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays (LCDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), upgrades and roll-to-roll Web coating systems and other display technologies for televisions, personal computers, smartphones and other consumer-oriented devices. The Corporate and Other segment includes revenues from products, as well as costs of products sold for fabricating solar photovoltaic cells and modules, and certain operating expenses.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Applied Materials, Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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How was this analysis of Applied Materials, Inc. calculated?

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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $54.84
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $3.59
  • P/E: 44
  • Future EPS Calc: $7.22
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $317.71
  • Target stock price: $197.27

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