Shares in Applied Materials, Inc. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
● The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
● Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● The company's enterprise value to sales, at 5.46 times its current sales, is high.
● In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
● The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.
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Applied Materials, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of equipment for producing integrated circuits and semi-conductor components. The group develops systems used in the principal manufacturing stages of microchips (deposition systems using chemical vapors, the physical process or through epitaxy, photomasking systems, control programs, etc.).
Net sales break down by activity sector as follows: semiconductor industry (77.2%), flat screen industry (3.3%) and other (19.5%; photovoltaic and electronic industries).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (15.1%), China (27.3%), Taiwan (21.4%), Korea (17.4%), Japan (7.8%), Asia (2.9%) and Europe (8.1%).