Today's Top Performers In Electronics

TheStreet highlights 3 stocks pushing the electronics industry higher today.
By TheStreet Wire ,

Two out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the

Dow Jones Industrial Average

(

^DJI

) trading down 6 points (0.0%) at 17,753 as of Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, 11:55 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,244 issues advancing vs. 1,682 declining with 165 unchanged.

The Electronics industry currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.1%. Top gainers within the industry include

Atmel

(

ATML

), up 4.4%,

Semiconductor Manufacturing International C

(

SMI

), up 3.0%,

Trimble Navigation

(

TRMB

), up 2.4%,

Avago Technologies

(

AVGO

), up 1.2% and

Freescale Semiconductor

(

FSL

), up 1.1%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include

SolarCity

(

SCTY

), down 7.7%,

SunPower

(

SPWR

), down 3.5%,

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering

(

ASX

), down 2.6% and

Kyocera

(

KYO

), down 0.8%.

TheStreet would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry higher today:

3.

Broadcom

(

BRCM

) is one of the companies pushing the Electronics industry higher today. As of noon trading, Broadcom is up $0.62 (1.2%) to $52.07 on average volume. Thus far, 2.5 million shares of Broadcom exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.3 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $51.79-$52.44 after having opened the day at $51.84 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $51.45.

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Broadcom Corporation provides semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Its products offer voice, video, data, and multimedia connectivity in the home, office, and mobile environments. Broadcom has a market cap of $29.8 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 18.7% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 6 analysts who rate Broadcom a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 20 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Broadcom

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full

Broadcom Ratings Report

now.

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2. As of noon trading,

NXP Semiconductors

(

NXPI

) is up $1.17 (1.4%) to $81.74 on light volume. Thus far, 858,835 shares of NXP Semiconductors exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.6 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $80.31-$82.09 after having opened the day at $80.32 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $80.57.

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NXP Semiconductors N.V., a semiconductor company, provides high performance mixed signal and standard product solutions for radio frequency (RF), analog, power management, interface, security, and digital processing products worldwide. NXP Semiconductors has a market cap of $18.8 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 5.5% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 13 analysts who rate NXP Semiconductors a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

NXP Semiconductors

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full

NXP Semiconductors Ratings Report

now.

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1. As of noon trading,

Texas Instruments

(

TXN

) is up $0.77 (1.4%) to $57.80 on light volume. Thus far, 1.9 million shares of Texas Instruments exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.4 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $57.04-$58.05 after having opened the day at $57.47 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $57.03.

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Texas Instruments Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers worldwide. It operates through two segments, Analog and Embedded Processing. Texas Instruments has a market cap of $58.0 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 6.7% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 9 analysts who rate Texas Instruments a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 16 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Texas Instruments

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, solid stock price performance and expanding profit margins. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results. Get the full

Texas Instruments Ratings Report

now.

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If you are interested in one of these 3 stocks, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the electronics industry could consider

iShares Dow Jones US Technology

(

IYW

) while those bearish on the electronics industry could consider

ProShares Ultra Short Semiconductor

(

SSG

).

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