After Merrill Lynch and Nomura gave Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Needham. Analyst Quinn Bolton maintained a Buy rating on Applied Materials today and set a price target of $73.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $43.46.
According to TipRanks.com, Bolton is a top 100 analyst with an average return of 13.7% and a 60.7% success rate. Bolton covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Advanced Energy Industries, and Ultra Clean Holdings.
The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for Applied Materials with a $68.68 average price target, which is a 55.2% upside from current levels. In a report issued on March 19, Mizuho Securities also initiated coverage with a Buy rating on the stock with a $65.00 price target.
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The company has a one-year high of $69.44 and a one-year low of $36.64. Currently, Applied Materials has an average volume of 8.98M.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 47 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of AMAT in relation to earlier this year.
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Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of materials engineering solutions used to produce new chip and advanced display. It operates through the following segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment includes semiconductor capital equipment for deposition, etch, ion implantation, rapid thermal processing, chemical mechanical planarization, metrology and inspection, and wafer level packaging. The Applied Global Services segment provides solutions to optimize equipment, performance, and productivity. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes; coating systems and display technologies for television; personal computers, tablets, smart phones, and consumer-oriented devices. The company was founded on November 10, 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.
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