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A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after a wave of upbeat earnings reports and bullish forecasts from key industry players signaled robust and sustained demand for artificial intelligence technology.

Shares of Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) are down 5.7% in premarket trading Friday after the company posted record fiscal Q3 results but guided fourth quarter revenue and margins that failed to clear an elevated bar. The stock closed Thursday near $535, already up roughly 109% year to date and roughly 183% over one year. Strong Report, ... Applied Materials is Down 6% Premarket. Will It Drag Down Lam Research, KLA, and Other Semi Equipment Stocks?

Applied Materials Inc. delivered an estimate-beating forecast that still got a lukewarm reaction from investors, a sign of the lofty hopes surrounding a company that’s key to the AI boom.

Applied Materials forecast ‌fourth-quarter revenue ‌above Wall Street expectations ​on Thursday, betting that unabated demand for ‌advanced AI ⁠chips will continue to ⁠fuel robust spending on ​its semiconductor ​manufacturing ​equipment. The company ‌forecast quarterly revenue of around $10.25 billion, plus or minus $500 million, compared ‌with ​analysts' average ​estimate ​of $9.54 ‌billion, according to data ​compiled ​by LSEG.

KLAC's 9.3% monthly drop highlights near-term margin and supply risks, even as AI demand, HBM and advanced packaging support its long-term growth outlook.

SanDisk just dropped a multi-year financial model at its Investor Day, and the ripple hit equipment stocks hard and fast. Here is what the targets signal about memory capital spending through 2030 and which semiconductor names stand to gain the most.

TER's AI-driven robotics growth is accelerating as data center demand boosts automation and semiconductor testing.

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TCW Funds, an investment management firm, published its second-quarter 2026 investor letter for the ‘TCW Concentrated Large Cap Growth Fund.’ A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. During the second quarter, AI monetization, a fragile Middle East ceasefire, and a Federal Reserve leadership transition were the significant events. All major indices ended higher, […]

KLA Corporation recently declared a quarterly cash dividend of US$0.23 per share, payable on September 1, 2026, to shareholders of record as of August 17, 2026, alongside reporting higher quarterly and full-year revenue and earnings through June 30, 2026, and issuing guidance for the September 2026 quarter. These results and guidance arrive as semiconductor equipment demand is being reinforced by large AI chip manufacturing projects like Tesla and SpaceX’s Terafab complex and by industry...

LRCX expands into PLP as larger AI chips drive demand, targeting a fast-growing advanced-packaging opportunity.

Investing.com -- In a note on Tuesday, Bernstein lifted its forecasts for wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) spending, raising price targets across its semiconductor equipment coverage on growing conviction that the current upcycle "has legs."

DOV, KLAC and TPC recently announced dividend hikes, offering income as market volatility persists and uncertainty weighs on investors.

Cramer’s Case for the Semiconductor Equipment “Troika” During the August 6 episode of CNBC’s Mad Money, host Jim Cramer pointed to the bottleneck in data center memory production and urged investors to focus on the companies building the fabrication machinery. He highlighted Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX), KLA Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC), and Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) as […]

Intel stock was down after it said it plans to issue 210.5 million shares at a price of $95 a share.

A single Chinese headline erased weeks of gains from one of the semiconductor world's most irreplaceable companies, but Wall Street's most bullish analysts are treating the dip as a gift. Here is why the bear case just got harder to make.

Applied Materials' AI-driven semiconductor exposure, strong earnings outlook and broad technology portfolio support the case to accumulate the stock.

Tesla and SpaceX's $16.8B Terafab plan could spur demand for chipmaking tools, putting four equipment stocks in focus.

KLA Corporation just delivered a clean earnings beat and bullish forward guidance, yet the stock plunged double digits anyway. One top Wall Street analyst sees that panic as the setup of the year in semiconductor equipment.

Here, we have picked three AI stocks, AMD, AMZN and KLAC, which are well-poised to benefit from AI's growing use and ability to solve complex problems.

Terafab buildout could create major opportunities for KLA, Onto, Applied Materials and Lam Research as AI chip capacity expands.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.37%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.89%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.44%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Applied Materials just handed investors a brutal one-month loss, yet one prominent Wall Street analyst sees the selloff as a setup for gains that would dwarf the broader market. The reasoning behind that call challenges everything the bears are pricing in right now.

KLA stock has delivered a very large 5 year gain, yet the latest valuation checks suggest the shares now lean expensive rather than clearly cheap. The share price has returned 462.1% over 5 years, which puts a lot of past success and optimism into the current valuation. Strong demand linked to AI infrastructure and advanced packaging can support expectations for future cash generation, while any slowdown in that spending cycle may quickly test what investors are currently willing to pay for...

TER trades at a premium, but booming AI demand and strong growth in chip testing and robotics are powering its momentum.

LRCX's 16% monthly fall contrasts with record revenues, strong AI equipment demand and rising earnings, strengthening the case for buying the stock.

In the world of chip equipment, paying more for slower growth seems like a mistake, but the market is making exactly that bet on one industry leader over its faster rival.

Applied Materials (AMAT), Lam Research (LRCX), and KLA (KLAC) sell machines used to manufacture and inspect processors and memory chips. Cloud providers purchase finished processors and memory for artificial intelligence data centers. Chip manufacturers may need more factory equipment when server ...

KLA Corporation just cratered 40% from its highs despite beating earnings five quarters in a row, leaving Wall Street torn between a China-risk nightmare and a structural AI story that one analyst thinks is worth 78% more than today's price.

Hims & Hers Health and QXO face heavy short interest amid dilution and loss concerns, while KLA has slid nearly 40% since June as AI-driven chip spending fears grip semiconductor stocks.