"Tech Prophet" Who Predicted the iPhone Now Predicts...
George Gilder - who predicted the iPhone 17 years early and gave Reagan the first microchip - is making his boldest call yet. He says an American nanotech "super-convergence" could mint more millionaires than any event in recent memory. He's found 3 stocks set to benefit the most.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 796,640,000 |
| Shares Float | 793,610,000 |
| Shares Short | 14,820,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 28% |
| Institution Holdings | 84.91% |
About Applied Materials Inc
Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor capital equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, and other equipment and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices and solar energy cells. It focused on device innovations for chipmakers serving ICAPS markets. The company operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and internationally. Applied Materials, Inc. was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
General
| Name | Applied Materials Inc |
| Ticker | AMAT |
| Exchange | NASDAQ |
| Sector | Technology |
| Industry | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | October |
| Full Time Employees | 36,500 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 245.72 |
| Market Cap | 199,136,700,000 |
| PE Ratio | 28.81 |
| PEG Ratio | 2.10 |
| EBITDA | 8,904,999,936 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 9.35 |
| Profit Margin | 24.67% |
| Operating Margin | 29.86 |
| Return on Assets | 0.15 |
| Return on Equity | 0.36 |
| Revenue | 28.4B |
| Earnings Per Share | 8.92 |
| Revenue Per Share | 35.28 |
| Gross Profit | 13,808,000,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -0.04 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 28.02 |
| Forward PE | 25.84 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 7.02 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 9.46 |
Dividend
Applied Materials Inc pays out a dividend of $1.78 per share, with a dividend yield of 0.71%.
AMAT's next dividend payment will be made to shareholders on December 11, 2025.
They pay out 20.55% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Dec 11, 2025 | $0.46 |
| Sep 11, 2025 | $0.46 |
| Jun 12, 2025 | $0.46 |
| Mar 13, 2025 | $0.40 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Sep 12, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Jun 13, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Mar 14, 2024 | $0.32 |
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