Despite a spike following the release of the Federal Reserve minutes this afternoon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) wasn't able to hang on to the gains, ending the day down a hair, off 8 points, or 0.06%. Investors reacted favorably to the Fed's Open Market Committee observations from its June meeting, even as the minutes showed that a number of central bank members favor beginning to taper its monthly bond-buying program starting this year. However, the bankers also acknowledged that more improvements in the job market are needed before the Fed can take away the stimulus program, an encouraging sign for investors who believe the Fed may be pulling the plug too soon on the fragile recovery.
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) topped Dow stocks today, gaining 1.8% and hitting a new 52-week high after receiving an upgrade from Citigroup to "buy" all the way from "sell," as analyst Jim Suva endorsed the PC-maker's turnaround strategy, saying it had cut $3 billion in costs through employee layoffs and was moving away from past failed strategies. Ironically, the upgrade came on the same day as tech research firm Gartner reported that worldwide PC shipments drop 11% in the second quarter, the fifth consecutive quarter of declines. In total, 76 million PCs were shipped, down from 85 million a year ago, and Lenovo narrowly beat out HP for the top spot. Facing the inevitable decline of the computer, HP has focused on enterprise and services as a way to drive profit growth.
5 Best Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: MoSys Inc.(MOSY)
MoSys, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and licenses embedded memory intellectual property (IP) for systems on chips (SOCs) designs. It provides a semiconductor memory technology, 1T-SRAM, which offers a combination of high density, low power consumption, and high-speed; and licenses this technology to companies that incorporate or embed memory on integrated circuits (ICs), such as system-on-chips. The company also designs, develops, markets, and licenses high-speed parallel and serial interface IP that includes physical layer circuitry, which allows ICs to communicate with each other or to discrete memory devices in networking, storage, computer, and consumer devices. Additionally, it supports serial I/O technologies, such as 10G KR, XAUI, PCI Express, and SATA, as well as parallel interfaces comprising DDR3. MoSys, Inc. offers its memory and I/O IP technologies to semiconductor companies, electronic product manufacturers, foundries, intel lectual property companies, and design companies through product development, technology licensing, and joint marketing relationships. It operates in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and rest of Asia. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
5 Best Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: DAQQ New Energy Corp.(DQ)
Daqo New Energy Corp., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells polysilicon in China. The company sells its polysilicon to photovoltaic product manufacturers for use in the processing of ingots, wafers, cells and modules for solar power solutions. It also produces and sells mono-crystalline and multi-crystalline modules to photovoltaic system integrators and distributors in China and internationally under its Daqo brand. The company was formerly known as Mega Stand International Limited and changed its name to Daqo New Energy Corp. in August 2009. Daqo New Energy Corp. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered Wanzhou, the People?s Republic of China.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Kevin1977]
DAQQ New Energy Corp.(NYSE: DQ) closing price in the stock market Tuesday, Jan. 3, was $1.84. DQ is trading -4.75% below its 50 day moving average and -59.53% below its 200 day moving average. DQ is -87.71% below its 52-week high of $14.97 and 30.50% above its 52-week low of $1.41. DQ‘s PE ratio is 0.60 and its market cap is $64.66M .
DAQQ New Energy Corp. manufactures and sells polysilicon in China together with its subsidiaries. DQ sells its polysilicon to photovoltaic product manufacturers for use in the processing of ingots, wafers, cells and modules for solar power solutions.
Top Stocks To Watch Right Now: OPNET Technologies Inc.(OPNT)
OPNET Technologies, Inc. provides application and network performance management solutions in the United States and internationally. It offers AppCapacity Xpert to provide capacity planning for servers; AppInternals Xpert to extract performance and forensic data; AppMapper Xpert to produce run-time application maps; AppResponse Xpert to monitor and analyze end-user experience for various users and transactions; AppSQL Xpert to track database usage; AppTelemetry Xpert to capture performance information; and AppTransaction Xpert to analyze individual transactions. The company also provides IT Guru Network Planner and SP Guru Network Planner for network capacity planning and design optimization, and validation of network configuration changes; IT Sentinel that offers network configuration integrity and security auditing, and proactive change validation; nCompass for enterprises and service providers for visibility of network topology, traffic, and status; and Virtual Network Environment Server to maintain real-time data model of the production IT network. In addition, it offers SP Guru Transport Planner for designing optical networks; SP Sentinel to offer network configuration integrity and security auditing, and proactive change validation; and AppResponse Xpert to ensure application performance; OPNET Modeler, a network modeling and simulation product; Modeler Wireless Suite for wireless network R&D organizations; and Modeler Wireless Suite for defense. Further, the company develops and sells various software modules; and offers consulting services, product updates, technical support and services, and training services. OPNET Technologies, Inc. sells its products through direct sales force, as well as through distributors and value-added resellers. Its customers include corporate enterprises, government and defense agencies, network service providers, and network equipment manufacturers. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Martin]
The brokerage expects the company to continue competing successfully against larger application monitoring vendors, helped by the breadth of product portfolio and deep experience in network design and lifecycle technologies.
The analysts see OPNET is capable of a sustained organic revenue growth rate approaching the mid-teens, which should enable the company to achieve scale advantages and increase gross margin profitability.
5 Best Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: Symmetricom Inc.(SYMM)
Symmetricom, Inc. provides timekeeping technologies, instruments, and solutions worldwide. Its Communications business unit provides timing technologies and services for communications infrastructure. The Communications business unit products comprise primary reference sources; edge clocks and distribution products for synchronization outside the network core; building integrated timing supply and sync supply unit for the central office; the PackeTime product suite; data over cable service interface specifications timing interface systems; network management and monitoring software; and embedded hardware and software solutions for integration with various elements of the communications ecosystem, such as silicon, routers, switches, microwave backhaul, and base stations. The company?s Government business unit offers time technology products for aerospace/defense, IT infrastructure, power infrastructure, and science and metrology applications. The Government business unit p roduct portfolio comprises timescale clock sources; network time servers; network time displays; time code generators; bus level timing cards; primary reference standards, such as rubidium and cesium oscillator standards; high stability masers; chip-scale atomic clocks; ruggedized crystal oscillators; and custom time and frequency systems. It offers timekeeping in GPS satellites, national time references, and national power grids, as well as in critical military and civilian networks, which enable data, voice, mobile, and video networks and services. The company sells its products through distributors, systems integrators, and manufacturer sales representatives. It serves various markets, including communications service providers; network equipment manufacturers; silicon suppliers; aerospace/defense; power utility infrastructure; IT infrastructure; underwater exploration and navigation; and science and metrology. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San J ose, California.
5 Best Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.(TQNT)
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. provides radio frequency (RF) solutions and technology for communications, defense, and aerospace companies worldwide. The company designs, develops, and manufactures RF solutions with gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride, bipolar high electron mobility transistor, surface acoustic wave (SAW), temperature compensated surface acoustic wave, bulk acoustic wave (BAW), copper flip, and wafer level packaging technologies. The company offers an array of filtering, switching, and amplification products for RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave applications. It sells electronic components for mobile phones, including transmit modules, RF filters, power amplifiers and power amplifier modules, duplexers, switches, other RF devices, and integrated products to mobile device manufacturers. The company also offers signal amplification and filtering products, including a portfolio of GaAs microwave monolithic integrated circuits and transistors, and SAW and BAW filter components that support the transfer of voice, data, and video across wireless or wired infrastructure. Its network products comprise millimeter wave power amplifiers, frequency converters, and voltage controlled oscillators. In addition, the company provides defense and aerospace devices, including packaged products, die-level integrated circuits (ICs), microwave monolithic ICs, and multi-chip modules to military contractors serving the U.S. government for use in various communications and phased array radar programs, such as ship-based, airborne, and battlefield systems, as well as sat-com, electronic warfare, and guidance applications. Further, TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. offers foundry services. The company sells its products through independent manufacturers? representatives, independent distributors, and direct sales staff. TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Sy_Harding]
Screaming buy, stock has a PEG ratio of 0.1 and is recommended by 91% of analysts.
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