Applied Materials provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, display and related industries. Co. operates in three reportable segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. Co.'s Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures and sells a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips. Co.'s Applied Global Services® segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity. Co.'s Display and Adjacent Markets segment is comprised of products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes, and other display technologies. The AMAT YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the AMAT YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether AMAT YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the AMAT YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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