Applied Materials (AMAT) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Applied Materials' price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
AMAT closed at $509.57 on Oct 8, 2026. The price is +4.1% from its 50-day average and +17.7% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -15.4%, trailing SPY by 17.9%. It remains 31.1% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessSplit-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts · Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonData as of 2026-10-08 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +4.1% from its 50-day average and +17.7% from its 200-day average. Over three months, AMAT returned -15.4% versus +2.5% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +4.1%
- vs 200-day
- +17.7%
- From 52W high
- -31.1%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
AMAT appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 10 of 94 archived scanner sessions: 10 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.07, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | #10 | — |
| 2026-07-31 | #28 | — |
| 2026-07-28 | #17 | — |
| 2026-07-07 | #25 | — |
| 2026-07-02 | #11 | — |
| 2026-07-01 | #6 | — |
| 2026-06-30 | #13 | — |
| 2026-06-29 | #23 | — |
| 2026-06-26 | #9 | — |
| 2026-06-23 | #17 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-10-07Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.121 calls, 0.048 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-09-18Sep 18: Applied Materials rose 6.5% to $444.57 on 13.0 million shares, 2.0x its 30-day average, after JPMorgan raised its wafer-fab-equipment outlook to 31% growth in 2026 and 38% in 2027 on AI fab buildouts and tight tool supply, naming the company well positioned across memory markets. Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA all outran the semiconductor sector on the note.
Applied Materials is the largest US maker of wafer-fabrication equipment and reported record quarterly revenue of $9.12 billion on Aug 13, up 25%, then raised its dividend 15% on Sep 10. Its Sep 17 statement at a trade event that it will invest $5 billion in India over about a decade came with only a small move that day and never appeared as a company release, so it is context rather than the driver. The close is 38.5% below the Jun 30 52-week closing high of $723.00, which is why the broker framed the call on recent underperformance. Watch whether other houses follow those equipment numbers and what the next quarterly guide says.
Source: Applied Materials: press release archive (record Q3 revenue Aug 13, dividend raise Sep 10) ↗Curated-manager ownership
3 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Applied Materials position in their latest filing, worth $1.1B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lone Pine Capital Steve Mandel · AMAT | $873M | 5.34% | 1.21M | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · AMAT | $189M | 1.93% | 261,950 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · AMAT | $2M | 0.00% | 3,392 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open AMAT Financials →How AMAT trades — the working manual
Applied Materials supplies semiconductor-production equipment, services and display-manufacturing systems. For the stock, broad wafer-fabrication spending matters alongside Applied's exposure to transistor, interconnect, memory and advanced-packaging transitions, where higher process complexity can increase equipment content even through an uneven capital cycle.
What can move the tape
- 01Foundry-logic and memory capital spending across leading-edge and mature-node customers.
- 02Equipment content created by new transistor, wiring, patterning and packaging architectures.
- 03Installed-base services, parts and upgrades that recur across the equipment fleet.
- 04Gross margin, research investment, working capital and capital returns.
What can fool the read
- 01Semiconductor capital spending is cyclical and can fall faster than end demand.
- 02Export controls and licensing rules can restrict sales or service in major markets.
- 03Customer concentration and project timing can make orders and revenue uneven.
- 04Technology transitions can shift spending toward process steps where competitors hold stronger positions.
Applied Materials triggered 3 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-10-08 archive. The latest was AMAT on 2026-09-18: 2.0× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +5.4% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported AMAT events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-08 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-07 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-08 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-27 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
AMAT stock questions
Is AMAT stock in an uptrend?+
AMAT is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-10-08: the close is +4.1% from its 50-day average and +17.7% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in AMAT mean?+
Applied Materials's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the AMAT 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are AMAT's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated AMAT Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no AMAT earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.