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Technology Stocks Worth Watching - August 15th

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Key Points

  • NVIDIA, Palantir Technologies, Apple, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel are highlighted as key technology stocks to watch, each showing significant trading volumes and market activity.
  • NVIDIA stock recently traded at $180.14, with a market capitalization of $4.40 trillion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.13, indicating high growth expectations.
  • Apple's stock is currently at $231.25 with a market cap of $3.43 trillion, demonstrating its strong position in the technology sector.
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NVIDIA, Palantir Technologies, Apple, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel are the five Technology stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Technology stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that develop, manufacture or distribute technology products and services—ranging from software, hardware and semiconductors to IT services and digital platforms. These equities tend to offer higher growth potential but also exhibit greater volatility compared with more mature sectors, reflecting rapid innovation cycles and competitive pressures. Investors often include technology stocks in their portfolios to gain exposure to emerging trends like cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. 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.

NVDA stock traded down $1.88 during trading on Friday, hitting $180.14. 104,438,255 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 241,888,734. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $163.18 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $135.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.40 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.13, a PEG ratio of 1.60 and a beta of 2.14. NVIDIA has a 52-week low of $86.62 and a 52-week high of $184.48. The company has a current ratio of 3.39, a quick ratio of 2.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10.

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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.

NASDAQ PLTR traded down $3.54 on Friday, reaching $177.48. The stock had a trading volume of 46,766,354 shares, compared to its average volume of 91,095,930. Palantir Technologies has a 12-month low of $29.31 and a 12-month high of $190.00. The business's 50-day moving average price is $150.04 and its 200 day moving average price is $118.54. The stock has a market cap of $418.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 592.44, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 10.39 and a beta of 2.60.

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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 Apple stock traded down $1.53 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $231.25. 28,297,682 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 57,836,551. Apple has a 1 year low of $169.21 and a 1 year high of $260.10. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.43 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.07, a P/E/G ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.16. The business has a 50-day moving average of $209.13 and a 200-day moving average of $213.37. The company has a current ratio of 0.87, a quick ratio of 0.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.25.

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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 stock traded down $3.23 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $177.72. The stock had a trading volume of 34,371,948 shares, compared to its average volume of 46,803,508. Advanced Micro Devices has a 12-month low of $76.48 and a 12-month high of $186.65. The company has a market cap of $288.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 102.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 1.94. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $149.48 and a 200 day simple moving average of $119.82. The company has a current ratio of 2.49, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05.

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Intel (INTC)

Intel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells computing and related products and services worldwide. It operates through Client Computing Group, Data Center and AI, Network and Edge, Mobileye, and Intel Foundry Services segments. The company's products portfolio comprises central processing units and chipsets, system-on-chips (SoCs), and multichip packages; mobile and desktop processors; hardware products comprising graphics processing units (GPUs), domain-specific accelerators, and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); and memory and storage, connectivity and networking, and other semiconductor products.

Intel stock traded up $1.31 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $25.17. 234,269,301 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 95,777,586. The company has a market capitalization of $110.15 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -5.28 and a beta of 1.22. The firm's 50-day simple moving average is $21.72 and its 200-day simple moving average is $21.51. Intel has a 1 year low of $17.67 and a 1 year high of $27.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42, a quick ratio of 0.92 and a current ratio of 1.24.

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