Technology Stock Performance

The best performing S&P 500 sector in the first half was Technology. The sector as a whole was up 24% in the first half, and below we highlight the year to date performance of the stocks that make up the sector. Of the 74 S&P 500 Technology stocks, 61 are up year to date and 13 are down. Western Digital (WDC) is up the most with a gain of 134%, followed by Micron (MU), AMD, Apple (AAPL), Teradyne (TER), and Corning (GLW). Motorola (MOT) is up 47%, Google (GOOG) is up 36.4%, Yahoo! (YHOO) is up 26%, and IBM and MSFT are up roughly 24%.

The worst performing stock in the sector this year has been Lexmark (LXK), which is down 38%. FLIR, HRS, and XRX are the other stocks that are down more than 10%.

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Comments

[Gregman2:]

It's a bit of a "Tale of Two Cities." Western Digital at the top...Lexmark at the bottom. I didn't see Seagate. There are a lot of pre-IPO companies in their gadget space, like www.ioSafe.com/1.

Jul 02 03:37 PM

[DmytrenkoArtem:]

we have in longs technology's blue cheeps IBM, MSFT, CSCO, SOHU. All of them have strong balance sheets and nice ammount of cash.

Jul 03 11:09 AM

[Bruce Pile:]

Why is it that you never see ARMH among any ticker string of tech darlings on CNBC, here at SA, or anywhere - not even in England. They are much of the brains of smartphones but treated like a step child in the media. ARM Holdings is in a good position in the smartphone revolution that may make them a higher profile stock. I have an interesting post on them at my blog goodstockinvesting.blo...

Jul 03 02:26 PM