In afternoon trading on Thursday, Healthcare stocks are the best performing sector, up 1.5%. Within that group, Becton, Dickinson & Co (Symbol: BDX) and IQVIA Holdings Inc (Symbol: IQV) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 3.5% and 3.4%, respectively. A
NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics card business has been a tremendous growth engine propelling its stock to multibagger status for shareholders who have held the stock even for just a few years. But this innovator isn't resting on its success. On a Fool Live episode recorded on Ma
In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Technology & Communications stocks are the worst performing sector, showing a 0.7% loss. Within the sector, Twitter Inc (Symbol: TWTR) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD) are two large stocks that are lagging, showing a loss of 3
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the The Technology Select Sector SPDR— Fund (Symbol: XLK) where we have detected an approximate $341.8 million dollar inflow -- that's a 0.8% incr
These Top Growth Stocks Are Trending This MonthWith the first-quarter earnings season fast approaching, investors are likely looking for the best growth stocks to buy now. After all, earnings are a key metric to observe when keeping watch for growth stocks. Most seasoned investor
What happenedShares of NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) climbed today while shares of rivals Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) dipped after NVIDIA unveiled a new CPU that will put competitive pressure on the latter companies in the important market for data center processors. As of
Nvidia Corp on Monday said it plans to make a server processor chip based on technology from the United Kingdom's Arm Ltd, putting it in the most direct competition yet with rival Intel Corp and adding a layer of complexity to the antitrust review of Nvidia's $40 billion deal to buy Arm.
Semiconductors power a wide range of devices, including PCs, gaming consoles, phones, cars, and industrial machines, and many of those platforms require a growing number of chips with every upgrade.Those upgrades, which strengthen devices' processing power or wireless connectivit
Top Quantum Computing Stocks To Watch In The Stock Market TodayQuantum computing stocks have been one of the best performers in the stock market today. While quantum computing was more of a theory years ago, things are changing. And that translates to a fast-growing market. Accor
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD), where a total of 216,193 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 21.6 million underlying shares. That amounts
Investors in Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD) saw new options begin trading today, for the May 28th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AMD options chain for the new May 28th contracts and identified one put and one
The Invesco S&P 500— Momentum ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 127,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 26,000. Shares of SPMO were up about 1% on the day.
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) didn't have the best start to 2021 after it was reported that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has started turning the tide in the CPU (central processing unit) market with a small share gain in the fourth quarter of 2020. Chipzilla's turnaround led to co
Technology stocks were higher this afternoon, with the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF rising 0.5% Wednesday while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was little changed.In company news, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rose 0.9% after shareholders of the chipmaker and Xilinx (XLN
Like a puppy chasing its tail, some new investors often chase 'the next big thing', even if that means buying 'story stocks' without revenue, let alone profit. But the reality is that when a company loses money each year, for long enough, its investors will usually take their s
Intel Corp on Tuesday introduced its newest flagship data center microprocessor, hoping its in-house manufacturing operations will help it navigate a chip shortage to better compete against rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc's (AMD) faster chips.
In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill is joined by Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser to analyze the chip market and share why Qorvo (NASDAQ: QRVO), Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL) are on Jason's radar. Plus, they discuss Archegos Capital's