Applied Materials (AMAT): return calculator
Applied Materials (AMAT) shares, the world's largest maker of chip-manufacturing equipment, listed in New York.
Updated
- Type
- Stocks
- Market
- NASDAQ
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Data range
- 2016-07 – 2026-06 · 10 years
- Source
- Yahoo Finance
US$1,000 invested 9 years ago would be worth today
US$17,824
+1,682.4% total return
Try your own values in the calculators below.
Return calculator
Pick an amount and a period to see what an investment in Applied Materials (AMAT) would be worth today. By default we include reinvested dividends (total return).
Lump sum
What a one-off investment would be worth today.
Monthly investing (DCA)
What investing the same amount every month would be worth.
Estimate before taxes, fees and currency-conversion costs. Past performance does not guarantee future returns.
Investment growth
Performance
Data for the last 10 years · 2016-07 → 2026-06
Comparison with the market
US$1,000 invested vs S&P 500 ETF (SPY):
- Applied Materials (AMAT)
- US$28,336
- S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
- US$3,791
Applied Materials (AMAT) beat S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by US$24,546 (+647%) over this period.
Risk & drawdowns
The largest peak-to-trough drop in the window was -47.6%. An investor who bought near the prior peak would have seen the investment fall significantly before recovering.
Scenarios
Illustrative results based on the available data.
US$1,000 5 years ago
US$4,893
lump sum, +389.28348737658257% return
US$100/mo for 5 years
US$27,143
invested US$6,100
If it repeats +40.11%/yr for 10 years
US$29,154
projection from US$1,000 (hypothetical)
About Applied Materials (AMAT)
Applied Materials is the world's largest maker of equipment used to produce semiconductors. It does not make the chips themselves: it sells the machines that deposit, etch and treat the layers of material on silicon wafers. It is the «picks and shovels» part of the industry — chip makers (TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron) need to buy these machines to build and upgrade their factories.
It trades on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker AMAT and is part of the S&P 500. It is a dividend stock. Because it sells very expensive capital equipment to a small number of large customers, the business is quite cyclical: it surges when chip makers invest in capacity and cools when they rein in spending. Demand for artificial-intelligence chips has been a recent driver.
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Sources & methodology
Prices: Yahoo Finance. Monthly series, total return (dividends reinvested). Data through 2026-06-25.
Total return assumes dividends are reinvested; you can turn that off to see price-only appreciation. Values are estimates before taxes, fees and currency-conversion costs.
Page generated and reviewed by the Calculadora Capital editorial team. Last updated 2026-06-25.