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Applied Materials Inc

AMAT#53 of 134 by buybacks

NASDAQ · Technology · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials · USA

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Buybacks · FY2025$4.89Blatest fiscal year
Buyback yield1.2%repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · FY2025$1.38Bdividend yield 0.3%
Shareholder yield1.6%buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr−11.8%800M shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow86%payout incl. dividends 110%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in USD. Fiscal years end in October.
Shares outstanding
Share count down 11.8% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in USD. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in USD. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2025Oct 2025$4.89B$1.38B$5.70B
FY2024Oct 2024$3.82B$1.19B$7.49B
FY2023Oct 2023$2.19B$975M$7.59B
FY2022Oct 2022$6.10B$873M$4.61B
FY2021Oct 2021$3.75B$838M$4.77B
FY2020Oct 2020$649M$787M$3.38B
FY2019Oct 2019$2.40B$771M$2.81B

Repurchases in FY2025 were +28.0% versus the prior year.

About Applied Materials Inc

Applied Materials, Inc. provides materials engineering solutions, equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor and related industries in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through Semiconductor Systems and Applied Global Services (AGS) segments. The Semiconductor Systems segment includes semiconductor capital equipment to enable materials engineering steps, including etch, rapid thermal processing, deposition, chemical mechanic…

Market cap
$402B
P/E (trailing)
44.0×
Fiscal year end
October
ISIN
US0382221051
Reporting currency
USD
Data updated
Oct 9, 2026
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