Dividend Stocks To Consider – May 8th

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ, Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares, AbbVie, Exxon Mobil, and Ford Motor are the five Dividend stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Dividend stocks are shares of companies that regularly distribute a portion of their earnings to shareholders in the form of dividends, typically on a quarterly basis. These companies tend to be mature, cash-generating firms that prioritize returning profits rather than reinvesting all of them for rapid growth. Holding dividend stocks can provide investors with a steady income stream and a degree of downside protection during market volatility. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Dividend stocks within the last several days.

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQ)

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (the Fund) seeks daily investment results, which corresponds to three times the inverse of the daily performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index (the Index). The Index includes 100 of the non-financial domestic and international issues listed on National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) Stock Market.

SQQQ traded down $1.41 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $28.19. The company had a trading volume of 94,858,000 shares, compared to its average volume of 52,341,849. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $36.64 and its 200 day moving average price is $32.89. ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ has a 52 week low of $26.21 and a 52 week high of $57.95.

Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL)

Shares of Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares stock traded up $0.85 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $10.62. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 159,259,254 shares, compared to its average volume of 89,017,382. The company has a market capitalization of $5.21 billion, a P/E ratio of 48.19 and a beta of -5.14. Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares has a one year low of $6.29 and a one year high of $41.50. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $9.31 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $18.24.

AbbVie (ABBV)

AbbVie Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceuticals worldwide. The company offers Humira, an injection for autoimmune and intestinal Behçet's diseases, and pyoderma gangrenosum; Skyrizi to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, psoriatic disease, and Crohn's disease; Rinvoq to treat rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, atopic dermatitis, axial spondyloarthropathy, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease; Imbruvica for the treatment of adult patients with blood cancers; Epkinly to treat lymphoma; Elahere to treat cancer; and Venclexta/Venclyxto to treat blood cancers.

ABBV traded down $3.27 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $184.82. 5,938,124 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 6,094,284. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 17.94, a quick ratio of 0.55 and a current ratio of 0.66. The stock has a market capitalization of $326.94 billion, a PE ratio of 77.01, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.62 and a beta of 0.56. AbbVie has a 1 year low of $153.58 and a 1 year high of $218.66. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $195.22 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $187.27.

Exxon Mobil (XOM)

Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas in the United States and internationally. It operates through Upstream, Energy Products, Chemical Products, and Specialty Products segments. The Upstream segment explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas.

XOM stock traded up $1.74 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $106.35. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 9,373,520 shares, compared to its average volume of 15,581,139. The stock has a market cap of $459.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.57, a PEG ratio of 3.02 and a beta of 0.51. The company has a quick ratio of 0.97, a current ratio of 1.31 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. Exxon Mobil has a 1 year low of $97.80 and a 1 year high of $126.34. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $109.00 and its 200 day moving average price is $111.40.

Ford Motor (F)

Ford Motor Company develops, delivers, and services a range of Ford trucks, commercial cars and vans, sport utility vehicles, and Lincoln luxury vehicles worldwide. It operates through Ford Blue, Ford Model e, and Ford Pro; Ford Next; and Ford Credit segments. The company sells Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories through distributors and dealers, as well as through dealerships to commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments.

NYSE F traded up $0.04 on Thursday, hitting $10.32. 87,413,184 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 112,696,625. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.31, a quick ratio of 1.02 and a current ratio of 1.16. The firm has a market capitalization of $40.90 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.07, a PEG ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 1.53. Ford Motor has a 12 month low of $8.44 and a 12 month high of $14.85. The business’s fifty day moving average is $9.77 and its two-hundred day moving average is $10.07.