Large Cap Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist – March 18th

NVIDIA, Tesla, and Invesco QQQ are the three Large Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Large cap stocks are shares of well-established companies with large market capitalizations, typically exceeding $10 billion. These companies tend to offer financial stability, more consistent performance, and often pay dividends, making them a cornerstone of diversified and lower-risk investment portfolios. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Large Cap stocks within the last several days.

NVIDIA (NVDA)

NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications.

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA traded down $2.57 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $116.96. The company had a trading volume of 214,261,172 shares, compared to its average volume of 320,731,946. The business’s 50-day moving average is $128.66 and its 200-day moving average is $131.24. The company has a current ratio of 4.10, a quick ratio of 3.64 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The stock has a market cap of $2.85 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.11, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.77. NVIDIA has a 52 week low of $75.61 and a 52 week high of $153.13.

Tesla (TSLA)

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Automotive, and Energy Generation and Storage. The Automotive segment offers electric vehicles, as well as sells automotive regulatory credits; and non-warranty after-sales vehicle, used vehicles, body shop and parts, supercharging, retail merchandise, and vehicle insurance services.

Shares of TSLA stock traded down $11.31 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $226.70. 88,124,927 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 90,785,213. Tesla has a 52-week low of $138.80 and a 52-week high of $488.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a current ratio of 2.02 and a quick ratio of 1.61. The stock has a market cap of $729.17 billion, a P/E ratio of 111.22, a P/E/G ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.50. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $347.85 and its two-hundred day moving average is $320.53.

Invesco QQQ (QQQ)

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 is a unit investment trust that issues securities called Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. The Trust’s investment objective is to provide investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index. The Trust provides investors with the opportunity to purchase units of beneficial interest in the Trust representing proportionate undivided interests in the portfolio of securities held by the Trust, which consists of substantially all of the securities, in substantially the same weighting, as the component securities of the Nasdaq-100 Index.

NASDAQ:QQQ traded down $7.38 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $475.39. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 26,835,743 shares, compared to its average volume of 34,915,119. The firm has a market cap of $299.62 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.74 and a beta of 1.11. Invesco QQQ has a fifty-two week low of $413.07 and a fifty-two week high of $540.81. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $514.05 and its 200-day moving average is $504.16.