Large Cap Stocks To Consider - May 1st

Tesla, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Invesco QQQ, and Meta Platforms are the five Large Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Large-cap stocks are shares of companies whose market capitalizations generally exceed $10 billion, reflecting their large size and established market presence. These firms typically have stable earnings, high liquidity and lower volatility than smaller companies, making them core holdings in major indices and popular choices for investors seeking steady returns. 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.

Shares of Tesla stock traded up $0.99 on Thursday, reaching $283.15. The stock had a trading volume of 80,847,573 shares, compared to its average volume of 107,931,523. The stock has a market capitalization of $912.00 billion, a P/E ratio of 138.80, a P/E/G ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.58. 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. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $260.13 and a 200 day moving average price of $323.58.

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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 stock traded up $4.12 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $113.04. The company's stock had a trading volume of 175,329,400 shares, compared to its average volume of 291,101,625. The company has a 50 day moving average of $111.47 and a 200 day moving average of $128.49. The stock has a market cap of $2.76 trillion, a PE ratio of 44.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.96. The company has a current ratio of 4.10, a quick ratio of 3.64 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. NVIDIA has a 12-month low of $83.20 and a 12-month high of $153.13.

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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.

MSFT traded up $34.97 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $430.23. 44,530,198 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 24,315,553. The company has a current ratio of 1.35, a quick ratio of 1.34 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. Microsoft has a 52-week low of $344.79 and a 52-week high of $468.35. The company has a market capitalization of $3.20 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.64, a PEG ratio of 2.21 and a beta of 1.00. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $383.76 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $410.91.

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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 up $8.29 on Thursday, hitting $483.76. 30,406,961 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 36,443,771. The stock has a market capitalization of $306.54 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.58 and a beta of 1.11. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $470.81 and a 200 day moving average price of $499.65. Invesco QQQ has a 1-year low of $402.39 and a 1-year high of $540.81.

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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 stock traded up $29.99 during trading on Thursday, hitting $578.99. 25,281,307 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 14,428,537. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.47 trillion, a P/E ratio of 24.21, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 1.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 2.98 and a quick ratio of 2.98. Meta Platforms has a 52-week low of $427.11 and a 52-week high of $740.91. The firm's fifty day moving average price is $578.42 and its 200-day moving average price is $603.67.

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