Top Manufacturing Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist – May 18th

Applied Materials, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Exxon Mobil, D-Wave Quantum, and Oracle are the five Manufacturing stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Manufacturing stocks are the inventories of materials and goods that a production facility holds at various stages of the manufacturing process—typically raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished products. They serve to smooth out production schedules, buffer against supply or demand fluctuations, and tie up capital until goods are sold. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Manufacturing stocks within the last several days.

Applied Materials (AMAT)

Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits.

Shares of NASDAQ:AMAT traded down $9.18 on Friday, reaching $165.57. The company had a trading volume of 16,506,320 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,872,339. Applied Materials has a 52-week low of $123.74 and a 52-week high of $255.89. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $149.19 and its 200-day simple moving average is $165.35. The firm has a market capitalization of $134.52 billion, a PE ratio of 21.64, a PEG ratio of 1.81 and a beta of 1.71. The company has a current ratio of 2.67, a quick ratio of 1.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, packages, tests, and sells integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices in Taiwan, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, the United States, and internationally. It provides a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, bipolar CMOS mixed-signal, and others.

TSM stock traded down $0.28 on Friday, hitting $193.94. 9,066,591 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 15,941,658. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has a 12-month low of $133.57 and a 12-month high of $226.40. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $167.42 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $187.40. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24, a quick ratio of 2.30 and a current ratio of 2.57. The stock has a market cap of $1.01 trillion, a P/E ratio of 27.55, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.66 and a beta of 1.21.

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 down $0.45 on Friday, hitting $108.13. 14,040,466 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 15,558,423. Exxon Mobil has a 12-month low of $97.80 and a 12-month high of $126.34. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $108.98 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $110.81. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 0.97 and a current ratio of 1.31. The stock has a market cap of $466.01 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.79, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.02 and a beta of 0.51.

D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)

D-Wave Quantum Inc. develops and delivers quantum computing systems, software, and services worldwide. The company offers Advantage, a fifth-generation quantum computer; Ocean, a suite of open-source python tools; and Leap, a cloud-based service that provides real-time access to a live quantum computer, as well as access to Advantage, hybrid solvers, the Ocean software development kit, live code, demos, learning resources, and a vibrant developer community.

QBTS stock traded up $1.28 on Friday, hitting $12.31. 111,467,964 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 38,328,543. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $8.00 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $6.16. The stock has a market cap of $3.59 billion, a P/E ratio of -29.31 and a beta of 0.90. D-Wave Quantum has a 12-month low of $0.75 and a 12-month high of $12.66.

Oracle (ORCL)

Oracle Corporation offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments worldwide. Its Oracle cloud software as a service offering include various cloud software applications, including Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion cloud enterprise performance management, Oracle Fusion cloud supply chain and manufacturing management, Oracle Fusion cloud human capital management, Oracle Cerner healthcare, Oracle Advertising, and NetSuite applications suite, as well as Oracle Fusion Sales, Service, and Marketing.

Oracle stock traded up $0.91 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $160.31. 8,495,670 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 9,479,850. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.65, a current ratio of 0.81 and a quick ratio of 0.81. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $142.91 and its 200-day moving average price is $162.49. The stock has a market capitalization of $448.39 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 39.20, a P/E/G ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 1.27. Oracle has a 1 year low of $114.55 and a 1 year high of $198.31.