California-based Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) is seeing its Growth metrics surge in Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings, amid the unrelenting growth in AI capex spending, which is showing no signs of slowing down.The Growth score in Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings is calculated based on a company’s historic growth profile, which includes the pace of earnings and revenue growth, with equal importance given to both short and long-term trends, before being ranked as a percentile against all other stocks.A sp ...