Oracle, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Pfizer, Salesforce, and Palo Alto Networks are the five Manufacturing stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Manufacturing stocks are the inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods that a manufacturer holds at various stages of its production cycle. They appear as current assets on the balance sheet and must be managed to ensure that materials are available when needed without incurring excessive holding costs. Effective control of manufacturing stocks helps smooth production flow, reduce waste and optimize cash flow. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Manufacturing stocks within the last several days.
Oracle (ORCL)
Oracle Corporation offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments worldwide. Its Oracle cloud software as a service offering include various cloud software applications, including Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise performance management, Oracle Fusion cloud supply chain and manufacturing management, Oracle Fusion cloud human capital management, Oracle Cerner healthcare, Oracle Advertising, and NetSuite applications suite, as well as Oracle Fusion Sales, Service, and Marketing.
Shares of ORCL traded down $1.65 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $254.02. 4,511,811 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 12,033,127. Oracle has a fifty-two week low of $118.86 and a fifty-two week high of $260.87. The stock has a market capitalization of $713.50 billion, a PE ratio of 58.50, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.77 and a beta of 1.43. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $217.36 and a 200 day simple moving average of $176.15. The company has a quick ratio of 0.75, a current ratio of 0.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.07.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, packages, tests, and sells integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices in Taiwan, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, the United States, and internationally. It provides a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, bipolar CMOS mixed-signal, and others.
NYSE:TSM traded down $1.24 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $231.23. 4,936,863 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 15,313,391. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $223.83 and a 200 day simple moving average of $196.30. The firm has a market cap of $1.20 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.36, a PEG ratio of 1.15 and a beta of 1.19. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has a 52-week low of $134.25 and a 52-week high of $248.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 2.37 and a quick ratio of 2.15.
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Pfizer (PFE)
Pfizer Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells biopharmaceutical products in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular metabolic, migraine, and women's health under the Eliquis, Nurtec ODT/Vydura, Zavzpret, and the Premarin family brands; infectious diseases with unmet medical needs under the Prevnar family, Abrysvo, Nimenrix, FSME/IMMUN-TicoVac, and Trumenba brands; and COVID-19 prevention and treatment, and potential future mRNA and antiviral products under the Comirnaty and Paxlovid brands.
PFE stock traded down $0.76 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $23.99. 30,143,658 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 45,827,164. Pfizer has a 12-month low of $20.92 and a 12-month high of $30.43. The company has a current ratio of 1.26, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64. The stock has a market capitalization of $136.37 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.38, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.85 and a beta of 0.52. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $24.39 and a 200-day moving average price of $24.54.
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Salesforce (CRM)
Salesforce, Inc. provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale.
CRM stock traded up $0.33 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $247.82. 2,631,151 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 7,051,035. The company has a quick ratio of 1.07, a current ratio of 1.07 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $265.03 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $280.90. Salesforce has a 52 week low of $230.00 and a 52 week high of $369.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $236.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.78, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.29 and a beta of 1.37.
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Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, a security management solution for the global control of network security platform as a virtual or a physical appliance. It also provides subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, malware and persistent threat, URL filtering, laptop and mobile device protection, DNS security, Internet of Things security, SaaS security API, and SaaS security inline, as well as threat intelligence, and data loss prevention.
PANW stock traded up $1.68 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $170.77. The company had a trading volume of 3,802,768 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,944,130. The stock has a market capitalization of $113.87 billion, a P/E ratio of 97.68, a P/E/G ratio of 4.06 and a beta of 0.94. The stock's 50-day simple moving average is $195.36 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $187.19. Palo Alto Networks has a one year low of $144.15 and a one year high of $210.39.
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