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10 Worst-Performing S&P 500 Stocks of 2010

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1. Chip maker Nvidia(NVDA) has plummeted 45% this year. The company swung to a fiscal first-quarter profit of $138 million, or 23 cents a share, from a loss of $201 million, or 37 cents, a year earlier. Revenue advanced 51%. Nvidia sells for a price-to-projected-earnings ratio of 9.8 and a price-to-book ratio of 2.1 -- 27% and 23% discounts to respective semiconductor industry averages. Of analysts following Nvidia, 11, or 34%, rate its stock "buy", 19 rate it "hold" and two rank it "sell." Nvidia has $1.8 billion of cash, equaling a quick ratio of 3, and $24 million of debt.

-- Reported by Jake Lynch in Boston.

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