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Best Large Cap Stocks To Watch Today - August 1st

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Key Points

  • Seven large-cap stocks to watch today include Invesco QQQ, NVIDIA, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, and Advanced Micro Devices, known for their established market positions and significant trading volumes.
  • NVIDIA and Tesla stocks experienced declines, trading at $173.50 and $301.47 respectively, indicating fluctuations in the technology and automotive sectors.
  • Amazon’s stock is down to $214.70 despite robust trading volume, reflecting ongoing investor scrutiny as the company continues to navigate its diverse retail and service segments.
  • Interested in Invesco QQQ? Here are five stocks we like better.

Invesco QQQ, NVIDIA, Tesla, Amazon.com, Apple, Meta Platforms, and Advanced Micro Devices are the seven Large Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Large cap stocks are shares of publicly traded companies with a market capitalization typically exceeding $10 billion. These companies are usually well-established, financially stable, and often leaders in their industries. Investors often view large caps as lower-risk holdings, given their size, liquidity, and historical track records. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Large Cap stocks within the last several days.

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.

Invesco QQQ stock traded down $11.40 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $553.61. The stock had a trading volume of 55,050,059 shares, compared to its average volume of 44,855,363. Invesco QQQ has a 12-month low of $402.39 and a 12-month high of $574.63. The stock's 50-day moving average price is $543.12 and its 200-day moving average price is $510.39.

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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.

NVIDIA stock traded down $4.37 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $173.50. The stock had a trading volume of 163,667,808 shares, compared to its average volume of 248,513,406. The company has a quick ratio of 2.96, a current ratio of 3.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.23 trillion, a P/E ratio of 56.03, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.58 and a beta of 2.13. NVIDIA has a 12-month low of $86.62 and a 12-month high of $183.30. The stock's 50-day moving average price is $154.45 and its 200-day moving average price is $132.03.

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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.

Shares of TSLA stock traded down $6.80 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $301.47. The company had a trading volume of 72,686,069 shares, compared to its average volume of 107,794,789. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $322.96 and a 200-day moving average price of $312.48. Tesla has a one year low of $182.00 and a one year high of $488.54. The firm has a market cap of $972.38 billion, a PE ratio of 174.72, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 11.21 and a beta of 2.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a quick ratio of 1.55 and a current ratio of 2.04.

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Amazon.com (AMZN)

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Echo, Ring, Blink, and eero; and develops and produces media content.

Shares of AMZN stock traded down $19.41 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $214.70. The company had a trading volume of 97,949,530 shares, compared to its average volume of 44,661,820. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $217.93 and a 200-day moving average price of $209.23. Amazon.com has a one year low of $151.61 and a one year high of $242.52. The firm has a market cap of $2.28 trillion, a PE ratio of 35.03, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 1.33. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a current ratio of 1.05.

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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.

NASDAQ AAPL traded down $4.42 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $203.16. 70,604,312 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 56,750,266. The business's fifty day moving average price is $205.22 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $213.98. The company has a current ratio of 0.82, a quick ratio of 0.78 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.18. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.03 trillion, a P/E ratio of 31.71, a P/E/G ratio of 2.30 and a beta of 1.20. Apple has a 52 week low of $169.21 and a 52 week high of $260.10.

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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.

NASDAQ META traded down $26.49 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $746.95. 14,819,683 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 15,628,186. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.88 trillion, a P/E ratio of 27.10, a P/E/G ratio of 1.66 and a beta of 1.28. Meta Platforms has a 52 week low of $450.80 and a 52 week high of $784.75. The business's fifty day moving average price is $699.22 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $644.61. The company has a current ratio of 2.66, a quick ratio of 2.66 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16.

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. It operates through Data Center, Client, Gaming, and Embedded segments. The company offers x86 microprocessors and graphics processing units (GPUs) as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, data center, and professional GPUs; and embedded processors, and semi-custom system-on-chip (SoC) products, microprocessor and SoC development services and technology, data processing unites, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and adaptive SoC products.

Shares of AMD traded down $5.08 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $171.23. The stock had a trading volume of 63,699,218 shares, compared to its average volume of 44,622,746. Advanced Micro Devices has a 12 month low of $76.48 and a 12 month high of $182.50. The business has a fifty day moving average of $137.35 and a 200 day moving average of $116.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a quick ratio of 1.97 and a current ratio of 2.80. The firm has a market cap of $277.64 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 125.96, a PEG ratio of 2.37 and a beta of 2.05.

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