Tesla, Invesco QQQ, NVIDIA, UnitedHealth Group, Alphabet, Apple, and Palantir Technologies 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 large market capitalization, typically valued at $10 billion or more. These companies are often well-established industry leaders with stable earnings and dividends. Investors favor large caps for their relative safety and liquidity compared to smaller, more volatile firms. 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 TSLA stock traded down $10.24 on Wednesday, hitting $333.58. 79,977,469 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 97,285,772. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.07 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 163.82, a P/E/G ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.43. The company's fifty day simple moving average is $271.29 and its 200 day simple moving average is $331.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a quick ratio of 1.61 and a current ratio of 2.02. Tesla has a one year low of $167.41 and a one year high of $488.54.
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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 NASDAQ QQQ traded down $8.15 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $512.12. The company had a trading volume of 51,918,280 shares, compared to its average volume of 37,025,273. The firm's fifty day moving average price is $472.85 and its 200-day moving average price is $500.53. The stock has a market cap of $320.92 billion, a PE ratio of 30.62 and a beta of 1.11. Invesco QQQ has a one year low of $402.39 and a one year high of $540.81.
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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 NASDAQ:NVDA traded down $3.24 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $131.14. 198,013,170 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 293,380,364. The company has a quick ratio of 3.64, a current ratio of 4.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The business's 50 day moving average is $113.11 and its two-hundred day moving average is $126.98. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.21 trillion, a PE ratio of 51.82, a P/E/G ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 2.11. NVIDIA has a one year low of $86.62 and a one year high of $195.95.
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UnitedHealth Group (UNH)
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a diversified health care company in the United States. The company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; health care coverage, and health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older addressing their needs; Medicaid plans, children's health insurance and health care programs; and health and dental benefits, and hospital and clinical services, as well as health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage.
Shares of NYSE UNH traded down $17.93 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $303.65. The company's stock had a trading volume of 37,144,465 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,385,285. The stock has a market cap of $275.46 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.63, a P/E/G ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.56. UnitedHealth Group has a 12 month low of $248.88 and a 12 month high of $630.73. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $464.33 and a 200-day simple moving average of $510.17. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 0.83.
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Alphabet (GOOGL)
Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube.
Shares of GOOGL traded up $4.88 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $168.86. 59,310,133 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 35,070,816. The company has a quick ratio of 1.84, a current ratio of 1.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.05 trillion, a P/E ratio of 20.98, a PEG ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.01. The business's 50-day moving average price is $158.23 and its 200-day moving average price is $174.93. Alphabet has a 1 year low of $140.53 and a 1 year high of $207.05.
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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.
AAPL stock traded down $5.69 on Wednesday, reaching $201.17. The company's stock had a trading volume of 40,026,655 shares, compared to its average volume of 55,897,078. The firm has a market cap of $3.00 trillion, a PE ratio of 31.91, a PEG ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.27. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $205.87 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $226.43. Apple has a 12-month low of $169.21 and a 12-month high of $260.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 0.92.
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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.
Palantir Technologies stock traded down $5.86 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $119.73. 59,029,377 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 77,069,988. Palantir Technologies has a 52-week low of $20.63 and a 52-week high of $133.49. The firm has a market capitalization of $280.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 634.61, a P/E/G ratio of 10.84 and a beta of 2.68. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $100.49 and its 200 day moving average price is $86.30.
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