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 9, 2022, there were 2,825 registered holders of Applied common stock. Information regarding quarterly cash dividends declared on Applied Materials’ common stock during fiscal 2022, 2021 and 2020 may be found under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources”.

Performance Graph

The performance graph below shows the five-year cumulative total stockholder return on Applied common stock during the period from October 29, 2017 through October 30, 2022. This is compared with the cumulative total return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index and the PHLX Semiconductor Index over the same period. The comparison assumes $100 was invested on October 29, 2017 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.

The graph below assumes that the value of the investment in Applied’s common stock and in each of the indexes was $100 at October 29, 2017, and that all dividends were reinvested.

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Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

In March 2022, Applied’s Board of Directors approved a common stock repurchase program authorizing $6.0 billion in repurchases, which supplemented the previously existing $7.5 billion authorization approved in March 2021.

The following table provides information as of October 30, 2022 with respect to the shares of common stock repurchased by Applied during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 pursuant to the foregoing Board authorization.