Scouting report · AMAT
Brice Hill
Applied Materials CFO since March 2022; before that Xilinx CFO and 25 years at Intel
—thin record
Not ranked yet
Scouting sheet
as of 24 Sep 2026Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design87eps, margin, fcf, strategic, individual, roic, relative tsr, time only · 93% for · 0.12% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
- Age
- 59src
- In the role
- 5 yr
- Promises scored
- 0
- Hit rate
- —
- Dodges / 100 answers
- —
- Airtime on calls
- —
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet
What to weigh
Watch 3
- Sold 15,000 shares on the open market in the past twelve months for about $6.6m. None of the Form 4s checks the 10b5-1 boxsrc
- Small personal stake: 58,062 shares beneficially owned at 2025-12-31, though he met the 3x-salary ownership guideline. Hedging and pledging are prohibitedsrc
- Half of his annual long-term award is time-vested RSUs; the CEO's split is 75% PSUs and 25% RSUssrc
In their favour 1
- Long semiconductor-finance background (Intel manufacturing and R&D finance, then Xilinx CFO) at a capital-equipment supplier to the same industrysrc
Career
- 2022 – now
- 2020 – 2022
- 2015 – 2020
- 2013 – 2015
- 2010 – 2013
- 2005 – 2010
- 1995 – 2005Intelsrc
Finance roles, including capacity strategy, desktop PC and chipsets, and data center
The Xilinx release gives a 25-year Intel tenure ending 2020; the 1995 start is that arithmetic, not a stated date
Undated in the sources
- General Motorssrc, Various finance positions
Not located: Intel roles before 2005 are not dated individually, and the General Motors years are not given in any filing read
Achievements
- Public-company CFO since 2020: Xilinx through its sale to AMD, then Applied Materials from March 2022src
- 25 years in Intel finance, ending as CFO and COO of the Technology, Systems and Core Engineering Group (manufacturing, R&D and product engineering)src
- Fiscal 2025: revenue $28.4bn, non-GAAP EPS $9.42 and non-GAAP gross margin 48.8%, which the proxy credits partly to pricing programs he led (+120 bp)src
- The quarterly dividend rose 15% in fiscal 2025 and 110% of free cash flow went back to shareholders, per the proxysrc
Education
Background
- Family Applied's appointment 8-K states no family relationship with any director or executive officer and no related-person transaction. Xilinx's 2020 8-K said the samesrc
- Other Hired with a $675,000 salary, a 135% target bonus, a $2.0m sign-on bonus subject to clawback and an $8.5m RSU award vesting over three yearssrc
- Other Besides finance, he oversees Global Information Services (corporate IT) at Appliedsrc
The promise ledger
No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.
Sources
11- Filing Applied Materials 8-K Item 5.02, Hill appointed SVP & CFO (0001193125-22-067015) · 2022-03-07
- Filing Applied Materials 10-K for fiscal 2025, executive officers and signatures (0001628280-25-056742) · 2025-12-12
- Filing Applied Materials 10-Q for the quarter ended 2026-07-26, signatures (0001628280-26-058235) · 2026-08-20
- Filing Applied Materials DEF 14A, 2026 annual meeting (0001193125-26-027307) · 2026-01-28
- Filing Applied Materials 8-K Item 5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001193125-26-106339) · 2026-03-13
- Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 6951 (FY2025 10-K, 0001628280-25-056742) · 2025-12-12
- Filing Xilinx 8-K Item 5.02, Hill appointed EVP & CFO (0000743988-20-000013) · 2020-04-09
- Filing Xilinx 8-K Ex. 99.1 press release, Hill appointed CFO (0000743988-20-000013) · 2020-04-09
- Filing Form 4, Brice Hill (reporting CIK 1809022), sale of 2026-02-17 (0001628280-26-009327) · 2026-02-18
- Filing Form 4, Brice Hill, sale of 2026-06-03 (0001628280-26-041310) · 2026-06-05
- Filing Form 4, Brice Hill, sale of 2026-08-25 (0001628280-26-059277) · 2026-08-27