Options Brief: Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT)

Shares of Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT are lower on the session by 1.12%, trading at $15.06. Overall call volume is now running at 3.32x the daily average, with 2% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 24,056 contracts have traded on the session so far. Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the global semiconductor, flat panel display, solar photovoltaic and related industries. Applied's customers include manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, flat panel liquid crystal displays, solar PV cells and modules, and other electronic devices.