NVIDIA, Palantir Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft, and Apple are the five Technology stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Technology stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business involves developing, manufacturing or distributing technological products and services—ranging from software and hardware to semiconductors, cloud computing and internet platforms. Investors are often drawn to these stocks for their strong growth potential, fueled by rapid innovation and digital transformation. At the same time, technology stocks can experience higher volatility than other sectors, as market trends, competition and regulations evolve quickly. 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 down $0.03 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $173.71. The company's stock had a trading volume of 89,944,809 shares, compared to its average volume of 251,059,094. The firm has a market cap of $4.24 trillion, a P/E ratio of 56.02, a P/E/G ratio of 1.50 and a beta of 2.13. NVIDIA has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $174.72. The firm's 50 day moving average is $150.19 and its 200-day moving average is $130.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10, a current ratio of 3.39 and a quick ratio of 2.96.
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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 stock traded up $4.05 on Friday, hitting $158.91. The company had a trading volume of 47,838,754 shares, compared to its average volume of 93,964,352. Palantir Technologies has a twelve month low of $21.23 and a twelve month high of $160.39. The firm has a market cap of $375.02 billion, a P/E ratio of 690.83, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 13.20 and a beta of 2.59. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $136.44 and a 200-day moving average price of $108.24.
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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 NASDAQ AMD traded up $4.93 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $167.05. 41,410,243 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 43,435,887. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $131.25 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $114.24. Advanced Micro Devices has a twelve month low of $76.48 and a twelve month high of $174.05. The firm has a market cap of $270.85 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 122.84, a PEG ratio of 2.10 and a beta of 2.05. The company has a quick ratio of 1.97, a current ratio of 2.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06.
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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 NASDAQ:MSFT traded up $6.89 during trading on Friday, reaching $517.77. 11,305,137 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 22,195,576. The company has a quick ratio of 1.36, a current ratio of 1.37 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12. Microsoft has a fifty-two week low of $344.79 and a fifty-two week high of $517.91. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $482.33 and a 200-day simple moving average of $430.84. The firm has a market cap of $3.85 trillion, a PE ratio of 40.00, a P/E/G ratio of 2.30 and a beta of 1.04.
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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 NASDAQ:AAPL traded up $0.12 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $213.88. 25,753,037 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 56,648,555. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $204.71 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $214.96. Apple has a 1 year low of $169.21 and a 1 year high of $260.10. The company has a market cap of $3.19 trillion, a P/E ratio of 33.32, a PEG ratio of 2.39 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.18, a quick ratio of 0.78 and a current ratio of 0.82.
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