Apple, NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, Palantir Technologies, and Microsoft are the five Technology stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Technology stocks are shares of companies that develop, manufacture or distribute technology-based products and services—such as hardware, software, semiconductors and internet platforms. Investors often view these stocks as having strong growth potential due to ongoing innovation and rapid market expansion. However, they can also be more volatile, reflecting shifts in consumer demand and the fast pace of technological change. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Technology stocks within the last several days.
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 AAPL traded up $9.32 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $229.35. 113,661,399 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 56,719,256. The stock has a market cap of $3.40 trillion, a PE ratio of 34.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.30 and a beta of 1.16. The company has a current ratio of 0.87, a quick ratio of 0.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.25. The firm's 50 day simple moving average is $206.84 and its 200-day simple moving average is $213.21. Apple has a 12 month low of $169.21 and a 12 month high of $260.10.
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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.
Shares of NVDA traded up $1.90 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $182.67. 122,649,542 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 161,863,520. The stock has a market cap of $4.46 trillion, a PE ratio of 58.93, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.59 and a beta of 2.14. The company has a current ratio of 3.39, a quick ratio of 2.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10. The firm's 50 day simple moving average is $159.82 and its 200-day simple moving average is $133.80. NVIDIA has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $183.88.
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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.
NASDAQ:AMD traded up $0.36 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $172.76. The stock had a trading volume of 68,723,246 shares, compared to its average volume of 66,889,100. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $144.55 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $118.25. The stock has a market capitalization of $280.36 billion, a P/E ratio of 99.29, a P/E/G ratio of 2.06 and a beta of 1.94. Advanced Micro Devices has a one year low of $76.48 and a one year high of $182.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 1.97 and a current ratio of 2.49.
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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.
NASDAQ:PLTR traded up $4.76 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $186.96. The stock had a trading volume of 62,386,781 shares, compared to its average volume of 61,219,692. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $145.64 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $115.61. The stock has a market capitalization of $441.21 billion, a P/E ratio of 623.22, a P/E/G ratio of 11.57 and a beta of 2.60. Palantir Technologies has a one year low of $29.10 and a one year high of $187.99.
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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.
Microsoft stock traded up $1.20 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $522.04. The company had a trading volume of 15,514,819 shares, compared to its average volume of 19,829,278. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12, a current ratio of 1.35 and a quick ratio of 1.35. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $496.85 and a 200 day moving average price of $438.29. The firm has a market cap of $3.88 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.27, a P/E/G ratio of 2.28 and a beta of 1.06. Microsoft has a 12-month low of $344.79 and a 12-month high of $555.45.
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