AMATApplied Materials
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.1×) and elite returns on assets.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Negative operating leverage, costs are rising faster than sales, squeezing margins as it grows.
High-quality, exceptional returns on the assets themselves, not leverage. ROE 36% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is AMAT?
Applied Materials earns 30% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 21 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 30%
Operating margin · Semiconductor Equipment & Materials median 11% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.06×
Cash conversion · 1.16× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −0.25%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 25% |
| FY2021 | 30% |
| FY2022 | 30% |
| FY2023 | 29% |
| FY2024 | 29% |
| FY2025 | 29% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 49%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 30%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 30%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 13%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $30.8B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $5.62B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $9.27B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 30%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
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