Altera Corp. (ALTR): Today's Featured Electronics Winner
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) pushed the Electronics industry higher today making it today's featured electronics winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Altera rose 59 cents (1.6%) to $37.07 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4.7 million shares of Altera exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $36.18-$37.53 after having opened the day at $36.42 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $36.48. Other companies within the Electronics industry that increased today were:
Dynasil Corporation of America
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), up 13.5%,
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), up 10.6%, and
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), up 10.4%.
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Altera Corporation, a semiconductor company, designs, manufactures, and markets programmable logic devices (PLD), HardCopy application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) devices, pre-defined design building blocks, and associated development tools. Altera has a market cap of $11.63 billion and is part of the
sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.4, equal to the average electronics industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 1.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Altera a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Altera as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share.
- You can view the full Altera Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 13.9%,
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), down 7.2%, and
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), down 6.6%, were all laggards within the electronics industry with
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) being today's electronics industry laggard.
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iShares Dow Jones US Technology
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) while those bearish on the electronics industry could consider
ProShares Ultra Short Semiconductor
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).
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