Applied Materials expands Besi partnership and Applied Materials stock trades at EUR 483.88

Published on 10/06/2026 at 13:09 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Besi joined the EPIC Center on October 1, 2026. Applied Materials stock costs EUR 483.88 on October 6, 2026 versus EUR 483.55.

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Applied Materials stock traded at EUR 483.88 at Lang & Schwarz on October 6, 2026 at 1:05 p.m. CEST, while the company expanded its partnership with Besi on October 1, 2026. GlobeNewswire reported that Besi would join Applied Materials' EPIC Center as an Innovation Partner. The combination of a fresh technology partnership and a nearly unchanged euro quote leaves execution, rather than daily price momentum, as the central issue.

Besi joins the EPIC Center

The expanded cooperation targets three-dimensional chip scaling, logic and memory integration, photonics applications, hybrid bonding, thermo-compression bonding and panel-scale packaging. The companies said their joint development program began in 2020, and Besi engineers will work alongside Applied Materials teams at the Silicon Valley center.

The EPIC Center represents a USD 5 billion investment in advanced semiconductor equipment research and development, according to GlobeNewswire. For Applied Materials, the strategic value is a closer link between front-end materials engineering and advanced packaging, where AI systems require denser and faster chip-to-chip connections.

Revenue growth supports the setup

Applied Materials reported revenue of USD 9.12 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, up 24.80 percent from the prior-year quarter. MarketBeat also reported adjusted earnings per share of USD 3.50 against a USD 3.40 consensus estimate for that quarter. The revenue increase and earnings comparison provide a stronger operating reference than the small intraday euro move.

MarketBeat listed a Moderate Buy consensus from 39 brokerages, including 30 buy ratings, eight holds and one strong buy, with an average 12-month target of USD 629.38. That target is in a different currency from the Lang & Schwarz quote, so it is a separate Wall Street reference rather than a direct euro-price calculation.

Stock stays below its yearly high

The primary listing is on Nasdaq under ticker AMAT, while the latest structured quote placed market capitalization at USD 430.5 billion on October 5, 2026. The same quote showed a 52-week range of USD 203.40 to USD 739.67, putting the current US valuation in a broad trading framework.

At Lang & Schwarz, Applied Materials was trading at EUR 483.88 on October 6, 2026 at 1:05 p.m. CEST, up 0.07 percent versus the prior close of EUR 483.55 on October 5, 2026. The further course of trading is shown by the continuously updated real-time quote of Applied Materials stock.