Large Cap Stocks To Consider – February 12th

Tesla, NVIDIA, Invesco QQQ, Palantir Technologies, Apple, Meta Platforms, and Super Micro Computer are the seven Large Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Large cap stocks refer to stocks of companies with a market capitalization typically exceeding $10 billion. These stocks are considered to be more stable and established compared to mid-cap or small-cap stocks, making them popular among conservative investors looking for 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.

NASDAQ:TSLA traded up $17.00 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $345.50. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 80,842,929 shares, compared to its average volume of 76,492,672. Tesla has a 1 year low of $138.80 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 firm has a market capitalization of $1.11 trillion, a PE ratio of 169.30, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 6.22 and a beta of 2.34. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $407.68 and a 200-day moving average of $306.23.

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 $1.64 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $131.16. 123,012,689 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 279,865,344. The company has a market cap of $3.21 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 51.60, a P/E/G ratio of 1.62 and a beta of 1.62. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $135.06 and its 200-day simple moving average is $129.84. The company has a quick ratio of 3.64, a current ratio of 4.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. NVIDIA has a one year low of $66.25 and a one year high of $153.13.

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.

NASDAQ:QQQ traded up $0.73 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $528.72. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 19,944,214 shares, compared to its average volume of 31,191,838. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $521.76 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $496.86. Invesco QQQ has a 12 month low of $413.07 and a 12 month high of $539.15.

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 NASDAQ PLTR traded up $4.47 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $117.09. 60,163,853 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 83,839,930. Palantir Technologies has a 1 year low of $20.33 and a 1 year high of $118.66. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $79.17 and a 200 day moving average of $54.84. The stock has a market cap of $266.73 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 616.70, a P/E/G ratio of 11.44 and a beta of 2.81.

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.

Apple stock traded up $3.73 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $236.35. The stock had a trading volume of 27,421,689 shares, compared to its average volume of 55,039,449. The company has a market cap of $3.55 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 37.50, a PEG ratio of 2.32 and a beta of 1.20. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $240.82 and its 200-day moving average price is $231.30. Apple has a 52 week low of $164.07 and a 52 week high of $260.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 0.92 and a quick ratio of 0.88.

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 NASDAQ META traded up $5.50 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $725.30. 8,585,176 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 15,521,394. The company has a market cap of $1.84 trillion, a PE ratio of 30.34, a PEG ratio of 1.46 and a beta of 1.20. Meta Platforms has a 12 month low of $414.50 and a 12 month high of $725.76. The company has a quick ratio of 2.98, a current ratio of 2.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $631.85 and a 200-day moving average price of $578.74.

Super Micro Computer (SMCI)

Super Micro Computer, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and manufactures high performance server and storage solutions based on modular and open architecture in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. Its solutions range from complete server, storage systems, modular blade servers, blades, workstations, full racks, networking devices, server sub-systems, server management software, and security software.

Shares of Super Micro Computer stock traded up $1.86 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $40.47. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 141,518,761 shares, compared to its average volume of 49,616,695. Super Micro Computer has a 1-year low of $17.25 and a 1-year high of $122.90. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $33.53 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $40.52. The company has a quick ratio of 1.93, a current ratio of 3.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. The company has a market cap of $23.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.38 and a beta of 1.30.