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Is It Too Late To Consider Applied Materials (AMAT) After Its 177% One Year Surge?

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Is It Too Late To Consider Applied Materials (AMAT) After Its 177% One Year Surge? Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St…
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  • Applied Materials' DCF intrinsic value is estimated at $191.66 per share, meaning the current share price of ~$417.04 is approximately 117.6% above intrinsic value, making it overvalued on this model.

    60% confidence

  • Applied Materials receives a valuation score of 2 out of 6 on Simply Wall St's valuation checks.

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  • For a profitable company like Applied Materials, the P/E ratio is a useful way to relate what you are paying per share to the earnings that support that price.

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  • Applied Materials is a key player in the semiconductor equipment space, with a role in supplying tools for chip manufacturing, and has been closely watched as sentiment around chip demand and capital spending shifts.

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  • Applied Materials' latest twelve-month free cash flow is approximately $7.0 billion, with analyst and extrapolated estimates projecting FCF reaching about $12.4 billion by 2030.

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Applied Materials, Inc. · cash7.0 USD
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Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.
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