Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) on Decifer

Decifer ranks AMAT number 28 of 277 tracked names on durable business quality.

Why it ranks here

• It earns strong returns on the money it puts to work, around 22% and it turns most of its profit into real cash.
• Revenue is expected to grow about 29% a year, profits grew 0% over the past year, and growth is speeding up, not slowing down.
• It keeps a high share of every sale as profit, and that has stayed steady over the years, a sign of real pricing power.
• It is riding an active market tailwind and has the balance sheet to fund its growth.
• It is not watering down its owners with new shares and it returns cash to shareholders.
• As one of 5 credible suppliers of foundry and semiconductor process equipment with returns around 22% and revenue expected to grow about 29%, it holds a real role even though this part of the story is already widely recognized.

The current read

The evidence on AMAT lines up on the supportive side: a live market force supports this name through its theme connection. One signal disagrees: the longer-term story is intact, but price is not rewarding it: semiconductor stocks are down 7.3% this week. The drop is large enough to signal near-term caution, worth watching but not the weight of the evidence.

Themes

• Industrials, Reshoring & Transport: Applied Materials provides wafer fabrication equipment for semiconductor fabs. CHIPS Act investments and US fab construction by TSM, Intel, and Samsung directly drive capital equipment revenue.
• Semiconductors & AI Compute: Applied Materials, Inc. sits in the fab equipment layer of the Semiconductors & AI Compute story.

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