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Applied Materials $AMAT

🫧 Edgar looked up APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE ($AMAT). Last filing: 8-K (5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers), 2026-08-27. 10 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $28.4B (FY2025), total debt $6.5B. Experience: revenue up 4.4% on the year, up 5.3% a year over 4 years; operating margin 29.2%, up from 28.9%. Soundness: equity 56.2% of assets, return on equity 34.3%, payout 19.8% of profit, dividend per share up 8 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $26.4B and $30.7B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $10B+ filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $24.7B to $32.6B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (63 filers, $50M+ revenue, semiconductors & related devices): operating margin 29.2% against a 2.4% median; growth 4.4% against 15.5%.

APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 2.4%29.2%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 15.5%4.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 67.8%56.2%Return on equityPeer median 3.5%34.3%Payout of profitPeer median 50.7%19.8%Gold tick: the median of 15–62 peers with $50M+ revenue in semiconductors & related devices
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit19.8% paid out80.2% keptHanded back per share$1.78up 8 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund27.5%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed4.4%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2025-10-26
Revenue$28.4B
Revenue, on the year4.4%
Revenue, a year over the record5.3%
Operating margin29.2%
Operating margin, prior year28.9%
Net margin24.7%
Research and development$3.6B · 12.6% of revenue
Free cash flow$5.7B
Cash$7.2B
Total debt$6.5B
Equity of assets56.2%
Return on equity34.3%
Payout of profit19.8%
Dividend per share$1.78 · up 8 years running
Earnings per share$8.71
Book value per share$25.27
Revenue per share$35.11
Shares outstanding808,000,000
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 63 filers with $50M+ revenue in semiconductors & related devices.

Health watch · last 12 months

Events the company itself filed with the SEC, most serious first. Shown beside the figures; they do not change the range or its receipt.

Health Harbor

Applied Materials sails as: Sound ship

Sailing speed follows growth: 3.2% a year crosses the harbor in 70 seconds.

New shipno warning signs
Sound shipone warning sign
Weathered boattwo warning signs
Old boatthree warning signs
Rotting at the dockfour or more warning signs

Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.

Speed and cash · fiscal 2025

Cash Compass🐄 Cash cow now · steady, with strong cash arriving today
Inside viewTurns 28.1% of revenue into operating cash; revenue growing 3.2% a year over three years; pays and raised its dividend.
Outside viewAmong $10B+ companies: 80th percentile for cash, 42nd for growth. cash growth

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Cash conversion (operating cash ÷ revenue)28.1%
Growth speed (3 years, per year)3.2%
Revenue swing (std-dev of yearly growth)4.1%
Speed and steadinessSlow and steady
Common dividendpaid, raised on the year
Equity of assets57.7%

Applied Materials is growing slower than its size class, with steadier revenue. SEC XBRL frames, the company’s own audited figures; quadrant split at the median of its size class.

Recent filings

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