The Latest Breaking News from AMAT

Analysts have provided the following ratings for Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) within the last quarter:

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a well-established player in the industry, but the stock could face some headwinds in the near term. Therefore, quality semiconductor stocks Texas Instruments (TXN), Applied Materials (AMAT), and KLA Corporation (KLAC) could be better bets to capitalize on the industry tailwinds.

Piper Sandler analysts Weston Twigg and Harsh Kumar jointly noted that inSpectrum released its January monthly memory contract pricing data, which indicated DRAM 8Gb DDR4 fell 8% month-over-month and that NAND 256Gb TLC dropped 1% on a month-over-month basis.  The analysts, who monitor the three-month rolling average year-over-year change to better gauge trends,…

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.