Applied Materials Inc. AMAT
What this company does
Written from the business description in APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DE's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 December 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +10.5% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +14.1%, earnings per share at +17.2%.
The share count fell from 0.91B to 0.79B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each USD of equity produced 36 cents of profit this year.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 28.4 | 27.2 | 26.5 | 25.8 | 23.1 | 17.2 | 14.6 | 16.7 | 14.7 | 10.8 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 7.5 | 8.7 | 10.5 | 9.5 | 5.0 | 8.1 | 9.7 |
| Operating income $B | 8.3 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 6.9 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 1.4 | −0.4 | 1.4 | 2.4 |
| EBITDA $B | 8.7 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 7.2 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 2.6 | · | · | · | · |
| Income tax $B | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | −0.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Net income $B | 7.0 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 5.9 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 0.9 | −0.3 | 1.0 | 1.7 |
| Free cash flow $B | 5.7 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 8.66 | 8.61 | 8.11 | 7.44 | 6.40 | 3.92 | 2.86 | 2.96 | 3.25 | 1.54 | 1.12 | 0.87 | 0.21 | 0.09 | 1.45 | 0.70 | −0.23 | 0.70 | 1.20 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 1.78 | 1.52 | 1.22 | 1.02 | 0.94 | 0.87 | 0.83 | 0.70 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | · | · | · | 0.07 | 0.06 | · | · |
| Payout % | 20 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 22 | 28 | 20 | 12 | 26 | 35 | 45 | 178 | 398 | 21 | 37 | −105 | 34 | 18 |
| ROE % | 35.5 | 40.6 | 48.0 | 53.4 | 51.6 | 38.5 | 35.9 | 36.9 | 41.3 | 22.9 | 17.8 | 14.3 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 23.6 | 12.8 | −4.2 | 12.5 | 21.9 |
| Shares out B | 0.79 | 0.82 | 0.83 | 0.84 | 0.89 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 1.06 | 1.08 | 1.16 | 1.22 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.31 | 1.33 | 1.34 | 1.33 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 19 of 19 fiscal years. 2 checks could not be computed.