The technology sector closed up putting in a mixed market performance on Friday, with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. tumbling as low as 14% after the chipmaker warned about profit and sales, and Workday Inc. (NYSE:WDAY) gaining in the enterprise-software company’s IPO.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has reportedly provided signs of the potential growth of its new credit card offering in Australia in the opening salvo of an offensive against the financial services industry. The stock’s price decreased in the last trading session with a previous 52-week high of $774.38.
The stock was trading on below-average volume. The stock traded at a volume of 2.40 million shares at a price loss of -0.90%. The share price is now down 29.54% for the past three months. Latest closing price was 6.19% above its 50-day moving average and 18.16% above its 200-day moving average.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has made another Windows 8-related move as updated productivity suite, Office 2013, has now been available to manufacturers. Shares of this company traded up 0.86% during trading Friday, hitting $29.32. The stock has a 52 week low of $24.30 and a 52 week high of $32.95.
The company has a market cap of $246.18 billion and a P/E ratio of 14.60. The P/S ratio is 3.34 and P/B ratio 3.69. Dividend yield stands at 3.15 percent. The beta value is 0.99. MSFT’s RSI amounts to 36.73.
Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ:STX) is recovering today from a fall after Citigroup downgraded the hard-drive maker to a sell rating. The company has a market value of $11.01 billion.
It employs 57,900 people, over the last 12 months has generated revenue of $14.94 billion and has a net income of $2.86 billion. The firm’s operating margin is 20.81 percent and net profit margin 19.16 percent. The latest closing price of its shares moved down -11.37% from the 50-day moving average.
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) jumped today after a plan to strengthen their operations in Hungary. For this company, a return of 24.16 percent on equity was realized due to the financial situation. Last twelve months’ earnings per share reached a value of $2.02. Last fiscal year, $0.24 has been paid in form of dividends to investors. Earnings are projected to move up 12.36 percent for the coming five years. The stock closed at $31.00, up 0.28 points or 0.91% from previous close and at a distance of -2.21% from 20-day simple moving average.