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Applied Materials Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Results

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Applied Materials Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Results Record annual revenue $28.37 billion, up 4 percent year over yearRecord annual GAAP EPS $8.66 and record non-GAAP EPS $9.42, up 1 percent and 9 percent year over year, respectivelyQuarterly revenue $6.80 billion, down 3 percent year over yearQuarte…
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  • AI adoption drives substantial investment in advanced semiconductors and wafer fab equipment

    80% confidence

  • Applied Materials is well positioned at the highest value technology inflections in the fastest growing areas of the market

    80% confidence

  • Higher demand expected to begin in the second half of calendar 2026

    80% confidence

  • Applied Materials delivered its sixth consecutive year of growth in fiscal 2025

    80% confidence

  • R&D investments targeted to create products enabling faster and more energy-efficient transistors, chips and systems

    80% confidence

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Applied Materials, Inc. · cash7241 million_USD
Applied Materials, Inc. · debt6555 million_USD
Applied Materials, Inc. · gross margin48.0 percent
Applied Materials, Inc. · revenue us655 million_USD
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ING Group
Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.
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