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AMATApplied Materials Inc.

Largest semiconductor equipment company; PVD, CVD, and etch tools used in niobium/aluminum Josephson junction deposition and superconducting qubit wafer processing.

Coiled

0

52w range compression, breakout-adjusted

Watched

100

7-day news volume + tape quietness

Sound

85

Margins, growth, FCF composite

Critical

77

Supply-chain concentration × demand

Pressure

60

Pricing Power

49.4%

Filling fast

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Market cap

$368.4B

P/E (TTM)

38.97

P/S (TTM)

11.71

EV / EBITDA

64.14

Gross margin

49.40%

Op margin

29.64%

Net margin

30.05%

FCF margin

Rev growth YoY

7.77%

EPS growth YoY

38.36%

ROE

40.44%

ROA

23.50%

Debt / Equity

0.26

Current ratio

2.42

Price / Book

16.01

Beta

1.64

Applied Materials supplies PVD sputtering and CVD deposition systems used in Josephson junction fabrication (niobium, aluminum, SiO2 dielectrics). Quantum fab volumes today are trivial relative to AMAT's ~$27B revenue. Long-term optionality: if superconducting qubit manufacturing scales to foundry-equivalent volumes, AMAT tools are in the primary process flow. Risk: commercial-scale qubit fab is decade-scale.

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