Top Large Cap Stocks To Research – March 12th

NVIDIA, Tesla, Invesco QQQ, Apple, Palantir Technologies, Meta Platforms, and ProShares UltraPro QQQ are the seven Large Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Large cap stocks are shares of companies with a high market capitalization, typically measured in billions of dollars. These companies are often well-established and financially stable, offering investors a degree of stability and lower volatility compared to smaller companies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Large Cap 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.

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA traded up $6.93 on Wednesday, reaching $115.68. 254,316,623 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 326,488,829. The company has a current ratio of 4.10, a quick ratio of 3.64 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. NVIDIA has a 52 week low of $75.61 and a 52 week high of $153.13. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.82 trillion, a P/E ratio of 45.62, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.77. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $130.54 and its 200 day simple moving average is $131.42.

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 traded up $17.75 on Wednesday, reaching $248.33. The stock had a trading volume of 113,511,386 shares, compared to its average volume of 87,336,180. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a quick ratio of 1.61 and a current ratio of 2.02. The firm has a market capitalization of $798.74 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 121.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.50. Tesla has a 12-month low of $138.80 and a 12-month high of $488.54. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $360.40 and a 200-day simple moving average of $319.53.

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 up $6.51 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $478.11. 36,413,855 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 35,107,957. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $517.19 and a 200-day simple moving average of $504.07. The stock has a market capitalization of $301.33 billion, a PE ratio of 33.43 and a beta of 1.11. Invesco QQQ has a 52-week low of $413.07 and a 52-week high of $540.81.

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.

NASDAQ AAPL traded down $4.85 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $215.99. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 41,794,451 shares, compared to its average volume of 53,315,300. Apple has a 1 year low of $164.08 and a 1 year high of $260.10. The company has a quick ratio of 0.88, a current ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $236.47 and its 200-day moving average price is $234.12. The company has a market capitalization of $3.24 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.29, a PEG ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.18.

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 Palantir Technologies stock traded up $5.77 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $83.82. The stock had a trading volume of 94,641,058 shares, compared to its average volume of 64,369,221. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $87.46 and its 200-day simple moving average is $64.35. The stock has a market cap of $196.58 billion, a PE ratio of 440.13, a PEG ratio of 10.84 and a beta of 2.81. Palantir Technologies has a 12 month low of $20.33 and a 12 month high of $125.41.

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 $15.70 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $621.41. 12,377,602 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 13,650,567. The company has a quick ratio of 2.98, a current ratio of 2.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16. Meta Platforms has a 12 month low of $414.50 and a 12 month high of $740.91. The company has a market cap of $1.57 trillion, a PE ratio of 25.96, a PEG ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 1.23. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $657.45 and a 200-day moving average price of $601.96.

ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ)

Proshares UltraPro QQQ ETF (the Fund) seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses that correspond to triple (300%) the daily performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index (the Index). The Fund invests in equity securities, derivatives, such as futures contracts, swap agreements, and money market instruments.

NASDAQ:TQQQ traded up $2.43 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $61.54. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 122,164,455 shares, compared to its average volume of 65,172,563. The business’s fifty day moving average is $80.45 and its two-hundred day moving average is $77.28. ProShares UltraPro QQQ has a 1 year low of $48.80 and a 1 year high of $93.79. The stock has a market cap of $18.90 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.83 and a beta of 3.45.