Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Quarterly Data
The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.
Liabilities represents obligations of a company arising from past events, the settlement of which is expected to result in an outflow of economic benefits from the entity.
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- Income Statement
- Common-Size Balance Sheet: Assets
- Analysis of Solvency Ratios
- Enterprise Value to FCFF (EV/FCFF)
- Dividend Discount Model (DDM)
- Return on Equity (ROE) since 2005
- Return on Assets (ROA) since 2005
- Debt to Equity since 2005
- Price to Operating Profit (P/OP) since 2005
- Aggregate Accruals
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Applied Materials Inc., consolidated balance sheet: liabilities and stockholders’ equity (quarterly data)
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Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2026-04-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2026-01-25), 10-K (reporting date: 2025-10-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-07-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-04-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-01-26), 10-K (reporting date: 2024-10-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-07-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-04-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-01-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2023-10-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-07-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-04-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-01-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-10-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-05-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-01-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-08-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-05-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-01-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-10-25), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-07-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-04-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-01-26).
The overall financial position demonstrates significant expansion in the balance sheet scale, with total liabilities and stockholders' equity increasing from 19.7 billion USD in January 2020 to 40.2 billion USD by April 2026. This growth is characterized by a substantial increase in equity, which has outpaced the growth of total liabilities over the analyzed period.
- Liability Structure and Trends
- Current liabilities exhibited a steady upward trajectory, rising from 4.5 billion USD in early 2020 to 8.9 billion USD by April 2026. This increase was primarily driven by accounts payable and accrued expenses, which more than doubled from 2.5 billion USD to 5.2 billion USD. Contract liabilities showed a period of growth, peaking at approximately 3.4 billion USD in July 2023 before stabilizing between 2.4 billion and 2.6 billion USD in the latter stages of the period.
- Long-term debt remained relatively stable for the majority of the timeline, hovering around 5.4 billion USD, though periodic increases to 6.1 billion and 6.4 billion USD occurred. Conversely, income taxes payable showed a marked decline, falling from 1.2 billion USD in January 2020 to a low of 321 million USD in April 2023, before ending the period at 704 million USD.
- Stockholders' Equity Analysis
- Retained earnings served as the primary driver of equity growth, increasing from 25.0 billion USD in January 2020 to 59.2 billion USD by April 2026. This indicates strong cumulative profitability over the seven-year window.
- An aggressive share repurchase strategy is evident in the treasury stock account, which expanded from a negative 23.7 billion USD to a negative 45.7 billion USD. This suggests a significant commitment to returning capital to shareholders, which partially offset the growth in retained earnings.
- Despite the large-scale buybacks, total stockholders' equity grew from 8.6 billion USD to 23.9 billion USD, indicating that the growth in earnings significantly exceeded the capital returned via treasury stock acquisitions.
- Solvency and Capital Management
- The relationship between total liabilities and stockholders' equity shifted toward a more equity-heavy capital structure. Total liabilities grew from 11.1 billion USD to 16.3 billion USD, while total equity nearly tripled. This trend indicates an improvement in long-term solvency and a reduction in financial leverage.
- Short-term debt remained low and volatile for most of the period, though a notable increase to 1.1 billion USD was observed by April 2026, suggesting a recent shift in short-term financing requirements.