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Applied Materials, Inc.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
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3 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Strong fundamentals
Profitability
4/4
Debt & liquidity
2/3
Efficiency
2/2
FCF growth year over year of 58.1% — +106% above the sector median — is the sharpest number on the page, yet it sits alongside an EV/EBITDA of 73.4×, which runs +129% richer than the sector median of 32.1×, so the market is pricing that cash momentum at a steep premium. ROE of 6.6% lags the sector median 32.1% by -80%, which means capital is not being converted into profit at a rate that justifies the multiple on its own. The F-Score of 8/9 signals sound underlying fundamentals — profitability, leverage, and efficiency all read well. Analysts forecast continued earnings expansion, but the realized three-year EPS CAGR per SEC filings trails what consensus models, and given the systematic optimism documented in long-run forecasting studies, that gap deserves weight; the beat rate over eight quarters is strong, yet the baseline the market prices in may already be stretched.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple | 8/9 | 171% | +6% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
The market prices in earnings growth; analyst sentiment is steady; has mostly beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
When AMAT reports on 2026-11-12, track revenue year over year against the sector median and check whether FCF growth holds near its current 28.2% pace. The F-Score profitability block is a perfect 4/4 — confirm that operating cash flow and gross margin signals remain intact.
Pull the latest 10-K at SEC EDGAR and focus on the MD&A section for commentary on EV/EBITDA at 32.1× and ROE at 32.1% — both sitting well above and below the sector median, respectively. Check management's explanation for capital allocation choices that bear on the leverage sub-score of 2/3.
From the alphabetical same-sector table in section 06, pick two or three companies yourself and line up one metric — EV/EBITDA or P/B at 9.93× are natural starting points. No entry in that table is ranked; the exercise is to place AMAT's figures in a wider peer context you define.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: +58%-6%-12%+37%
Over 4 years: 1.841.422.772.44
Over 4 years: +64%+2%-23%+17%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 8 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 32% |
| ACN | Accenture | 4/9 | 26% | +7% | 15% |
| ADBE | Adobe | 7/9 | 55% | +11% | 37% |
| AMAT | Applied Materials, Inc. | 8/9 | 7% | +17% | 27% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 7/9 | 7% | +34% | 11% |
| AVGO | Broadcom | 7/9 | 43% | +24% | 40% |
| CRM | Salesforce | 7/9 | 12% | +10% | 20% |
| CSCO | Cisco | 8/9 | 22% | +5% | 21% |
| IBM | IBM | 6/9 | 35% | +8% | — |
| INTC | Intel | 6/9 | -0% | -0% | -4% |
| INTU | Intuit | 8/9 | 20% | +16% | 26% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | 6/9 | 34% | +18% | 47% |
| NOW | ServiceNow | 4/9 | 15% | +21% | 14% |
| NVDA | NVIDIA | 3/9 | 101% | +65% | 60% |
| ORCL | Oracle | 5/9 | 54% | +17% | 31% |
| TXN | Texas Instruments | 7/9 | 30% | +13% | 34% |
A sample of 16 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.