Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

Applied’s common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol AMAT. As of December 7, 2018, there were 2,854 registered holders of Applied common stock.

Performance Graph

The performance graph below shows the five-year cumulative total stockholder return on Applied common stock during the period from October 27, 2013 through October 28, 2018. This is compared with the cumulative total return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index and the RDG Semiconductor Composite Index over the same period. The comparison assumes $100 was invested on October 27, 2013 in Applied common stock and in each of the foregoing indices and assumes reinvestment of dividends, if any. Dollar amounts in the graph are rounded to the nearest whole dollar. The performance shown in the graph represents past performance and should not be considered an indication of future performance.

COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*

Among Applied Materials, Inc., the S&P 500 Index

and the RDG Semiconductor Composite Index

*Assumes $100 invested on 10/27/13 in stock or 10/31/13 in index, including reinvestment of dividends.

Indexes calculated on month-end basis.

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Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

The following table provides information as of October 28, 2018 with respect to the shares of common stock repurchased by Applied during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 pursuant to a publicly announced stock repurchase program approved by the Board of Directors in February 2018, which authorized up to an aggregate of $6.0 billion in repurchases.