Best Technology Stocks To Keep An Eye On - August 12th

Key Points

• MarketBeat highlights seven key technology stocks to monitor, including NVIDIA, Meta Platforms, Apple, and Microsoft, all known for their growth-oriented business models.
• NVIDIA shares recently traded at $183.05, with a market cap of $4.47 trillion and significant trading volume, marking it as a strong player within the technology sector.
• Meta Platforms experienced a share increase to $788.67, showcasing a market capitalization of $1.98 trillion, highlighting its potential for sustained growth in the tech industry.

NVIDIA, Meta Platforms, Apple, Palantir Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft, and Circle Internet Group are the seven Technology stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Technology stocks are shares of companies whose core business involves developing, manufacturing, or delivering technology-based products and services, such as software, hardware, semiconductors, and digital platforms. Investors often view them as growth-oriented equities because their valuations hinge on future innovation, market adoption, and earnings potential. As a result, technology stocks can be more volatile than those in traditional sectors, reacting sharply to industry breakthroughs, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer trends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Technology stocks within the last several days.

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.

NASDAQ NVDA traded up $0.99 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $183.05. The company had a trading volume of 104,893,445 shares, compared to its average volume of 243,648,250. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $160.71 and a 200 day moving average of $133.89. NVIDIA has a 1-year low of $86.62 and a 1-year high of $183.88. 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 stock has a market capitalization of $4.47 trillion, a P/E ratio of 59.05, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.61 and a beta of 2.14.

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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.

Shares of META traded up $22.80 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $788.67. 10,538,786 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 15,407,560. The company has a market cap of $1.98 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.56, a P/E/G ratio of 1.60 and a beta of 1.27. Meta Platforms has a fifty-two week low of $479.80 and a fifty-two week high of $793.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 1.97 and a current ratio of 1.97. The stock's 50-day moving average is $716.43 and its 200-day moving average is $652.13.

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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 AAPL traded up $1.89 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $229.07. 35,939,174 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 57,855,492. The company has a market cap of $3.40 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.77, a P/E/G ratio of 2.40 and a beta of 1.16. Apple has a fifty-two week low of $169.21 and a fifty-two week high of $260.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.25, a quick ratio of 0.83 and a current ratio of 0.87. The stock's 50-day moving average is $207.35 and its 200-day moving average is $213.10.

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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 PLTR traded up $4.79 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $187.47. 40,799,062 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 91,780,266. The company has a market cap of $442.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 624.69, a P/E/G ratio of 10.54 and a beta of 2.60. Palantir Technologies has a fifty-two week low of $29.31 and a fifty-two week high of $188.15. The stock's 50-day moving average is $146.65 and its 200-day moving average is $116.86.

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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 up $1.38 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $173.66. 40,764,176 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 46,268,945. The company has a market cap of $281.83 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 99.93, a P/E/G ratio of 2.07 and a beta of 1.94. Advanced Micro Devices has a fifty-two week low of $76.48 and a fifty-two week high of $182.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a current ratio of 2.49. The stock's 50-day moving average is $145.71 and its 200-day moving average is $118.52.

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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.

Shares of MSFT stock traded up $7.73 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $529.50. 10,345,710 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 22,244,736. The business's fifty day moving average is $498.05 and its two-hundred day moving average is $438.72. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12, a current ratio of 1.35 and a quick ratio of 1.35. Microsoft has a 12-month low of $344.79 and a 12-month high of $555.45. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.94 trillion, a P/E ratio of 38.81, a P/E/G ratio of 2.29 and a beta of 1.06.

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Circle Internet Group (CRCL)

Founded in 2013, Circle's mission is to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value. We intend to connect the world more deeply by building a new global economic system on the foundation of the internet, and to facilitate the creation of a world where everyone, everywhere can share value as easily as we can today share information, content, and communications.

Shares of CRCL stock traded up $3.71 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $164.88. 28,562,842 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 28,152,078. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $186.13. Circle Internet Group has a 12-month low of $64.00 and a 12-month high of $298.99. The stock has a market cap of $36.69 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of -13,029.87.

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