AMAT options flow: unusual options activity in Applied Materials Inc.

Updated 28 September 2026, 09:54 ET

The 500 most recent unusual options prints in Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT), from 21 September 2026 to 28 September 2026, carry $42.7M of tracked premium, close to even between bullish and bearish premium. The delayed tape holds that many at a time, and this name fills it in 6 sessions. Bullish premium was $19.0M against $16.0M bearish; $23.8M went into calls and $18.8M into puts, a put call ratio of 0.79. The largest print was $2.5M of AMAT 21 Jan 2028 $460 puts on 24 September 2026, executed at bid. The last session with prints, 28 September 2026, added 5 prints and $727K of premium. AMAT closed at $485.00 on 25 September 2026, up 2.3%.

The latest unusual flow

The 500 most recent prints, 21 September 2026 to 28 September 2026, 6 sessions. The delayed tape holds that many at a time; the full stream with every print is in the app. Every print is shown twenty minutes after it executed, and the page is rebuilt after each session.

Net premium is bullish minus bearish premium. The put call ratio is put premium divided by call premium, weighted by money rather than by contract count. Sweeps is the share of prints executed across several exchanges at once. Read the guide: Reading the Pulse.

Largest prints

Size above open interest means the trade opened a position larger than everything that existed in the contract the night before. Above ask and below bid are the most aggressive executions. Read the guide: Size versus open interest.

Where the money is aimed

The most premium, $7.9M, is aimed at the 21 Jan 2028 expiry; the nearest expiry with unusual prints is 16 Oct 2026.

A print in a contract expiring this week is a view about the next few days, often about a known event; a print months out is a different kind of statement. Read the guide: 0DTE options flow.

The last session, 28 September 2026

Every print in AMAT with its full detail, the live tape, one tap filters and saved screeners: open AMAT in Options Sentiment Screener.

Price

The live quote and the price chart sit beside the ticker's flow in the app: open AMAT in Options Sentiment Screener.

Analysts

The most recent analyst targets on file, from 23 firms, have a median of $683, 40.8% above the last close. The last 90 days brought 1 downgrade.

Calls bought at a strike above the average target are a bet that the analysts are too cautious; puts far below the price in a name they like are protection or a strong disagreement. Read the guide: Reading one ticker's flow.

About Applied Materials Inc.

Exchange

Nasdaq

Sector

Information Technology

Industry

Electronic Equipment

Headquarters

Wilmington, California

Website

appliedmaterials.com

Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to semiconductor, display, and related industries. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones.

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Learn

• What unusual options activity means
• Reading one ticker's flow
• Sweeps, blocks and where a trade printed
• Size versus open interest
• Bullish or bearish, how a print's sentiment is inferred
• The conviction score and whale prints