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Craig Ellis Upgraded (AMAT) to Strong Buy and Increased Target to $72 on, May 15th, 2020

Craig Ellis of B. Riley Securities, Upgraded "Applied Materials, Inc." (AMAT) to Strong Buy and Increased Target from $56 to $72 on, May 15th, 2020.

Craig has made no other calls on AMAT in the last 4 months.

There are 7 other peers that have a rating on AMAT. Out of the 7 peers that are also analyzing AMAT, 2 agree with Craig's Rating of Hold. Following are those relevant analyst calls for the last 4 months

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• Thomas Diffely of "DA Davidson" Downgraded from Strong Buy to Hold on, Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
• Aaron Siegel of "CFRA" Maintained at Hold with Increased Target to $68 on, Thursday, February 13th, 2020

These are the ratings of the 5 analyists that currently disagree with Craig

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• Sidney Ho of "Deutsche Bank" Maintained at Strong Buy with Decreased Target to $65 on, Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
• Atif Malik of "Citigroup" Maintained at Strong Buy with Decreased Target to $58 on, Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
• David Wong of "Nomura" Maintained at Strong Buy with Increased Target to $77 on, Thursday, February 13th, 2020
• John Pitzer of "Credit Suisse" Maintained at Buy with Increased Target to $85 on, Thursday, February 13th, 2020
• Aaron Rakers of "Wells Fargo" Maintained at Buy with Increased Target to $78 on, Thursday, February 13th, 2020

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