Applied Materials (AMAT) has been one of the most searched-for stocks on Zacks.com lately. So, you might want to look at some of the facts that could shape the stock's performance in the near term.Over the past month, shares of this maker of chipmaking equipment have returned -18.3%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -0.4% change. During this period, the Zacks Semiconductor Equipment - Wafer Fabrication industry, which Applied Materials falls in, has lost 16.7%. The key question now is: What could b ...