Tesla, NVIDIA, Invesco QQQ, Palantir Technologies, Apple, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms are the seven Large Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Large-cap stocks are shares of companies with a large market capitalization—typically valued at $10 billion or more—reflecting the total market value of all outstanding shares. Because these firms are usually well-established industry leaders, their stocks tend to exhibit lower volatility and more predictable earnings than smaller companies. Investors often view large caps as a core, relatively stable component of a diversified portfolio. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Large Cap stocks within the last several days.
Tesla (TSLA)
Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Automotive, and Energy Generation and Storage. The Automotive segment offers electric vehicles, as well as sells automotive regulatory credits; and non-warranty after-sales vehicle, used vehicles, body shop and parts, supercharging, retail merchandise, and vehicle insurance services.
TSLA stock traded up $13.23 during trading on Friday, reaching $298.05. 132,028,653 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 96,242,957. The company's fifty day moving average price is $258.65 and its 200-day moving average price is $327.43. The firm has a market cap of $960.01 billion, a PE ratio of 146.10, a P/E/G ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.43. Tesla has a 1-year low of $167.41 and a 1-year high of $488.54. The company has a quick ratio of 1.61, a current ratio of 2.02 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08.
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NVIDIA (NVDA)
NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications.
NVDA stock traded down $0.72 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $116.65. 132,620,250 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 296,326,827. The company has a market cap of $2.85 trillion, a P/E ratio of 45.91, a P/E/G ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 2.11. NVIDIA has a one year low of $86.62 and a one year high of $195.95. The company has a current ratio of 4.10, a quick ratio of 3.64 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $110.29 and a 200 day simple moving average of $127.28.
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Invesco QQQ (QQQ)
PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 is a unit investment trust that issues securities called Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. The Trust's investment objective is to provide investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index. The Trust provides investors with the opportunity to purchase units of beneficial interest in the Trust representing proportionate undivided interests in the portfolio of securities held by the Trust, which consists of substantially all of the securities, in substantially the same weighting, as the component securities of the Nasdaq-100 Index.
Shares of Invesco QQQ stock traded down $0.24 on Friday, reaching $488.05. 27,675,907 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 36,513,345. Invesco QQQ has a fifty-two week low of $402.39 and a fifty-two week high of $540.81. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $467.78 and a 200-day moving average price of $499.31. The firm has a market capitalization of $305.84 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.58 and a beta of 1.11.
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Palantir Technologies (PLTR)
Palantir Technologies, Inc. engages in the business of building and deploying software platforms that serve as the central operating systems for its customers. It operates under the Commercial and Government segments. The Commercial segment focuses on customers working in non-government industries. The Government segment is involved in providing services to customers that are the United States government and non-United States government agencies.
Shares of Palantir Technologies stock traded down $1.79 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $117.36. The company's stock had a trading volume of 80,786,187 shares, compared to its average volume of 75,941,672. Palantir Technologies has a 1-year low of $20.60 and a 1-year high of $125.41. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $94.23 and a 200-day simple moving average of $82.26. The firm has a market capitalization of $275.25 billion, a P/E ratio of 617.72, a PEG ratio of 10.84 and a beta of 2.68.
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Apple (AAPL)
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide. The company offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; Mac, a line of personal computers; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and wearables, home, and accessories comprising AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, and HomePod.
Shares of Apple stock traded up $1.04 on Friday, hitting $198.53. 36,406,804 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 56,093,894. The company has a market cap of $2.97 trillion, a PE ratio of 31.51, a PEG ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.27. The company has a quick ratio of 0.88, a current ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26. Apple has a 12-month low of $169.21 and a 12-month high of $260.10. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $208.09 and a 200 day moving average price of $227.36.
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Microsoft (MSFT)
Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services.
NASDAQ MSFT traded up $0.56 during trading on Friday, reaching $438.73. The company's stock had a trading volume of 15,313,766 shares, compared to its average volume of 21,454,441. Microsoft has a 1-year low of $344.79 and a 1-year high of $468.35. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $389.19 and a 200-day moving average price of $411.63. The company has a current ratio of 1.35, a quick ratio of 1.34 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.26 trillion, a PE ratio of 35.32, a PEG ratio of 2.21 and a beta of 0.99.
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Meta Platforms (META)
Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, and wearables worldwide. It operates in two segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs. The Family of Apps segment offers Facebook, which enables people to share, discuss, discover, and connect with interests; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages, as well as feed, stories, reels, video, live, and shops; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact privately.
META traded down $5.52 on Friday, hitting $592.49. The company had a trading volume of 10,401,916 shares, compared to its average volume of 14,465,666. The stock has a market cap of $1.50 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 1.24. Meta Platforms has a 1-year low of $442.65 and a 1-year high of $740.91. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 2.98 and a quick ratio of 2.98. The company's fifty day moving average price is $568.87 and its 200 day moving average price is $604.50.
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