Seeking Alpha

Technology Stock Performance 3 comments

by: Bespoke Investment Group July 02, 2009 | about: AAPL / ADP / AMD / CA / FLIR / GLW / GOOG / HRS / IBM / LXK / MOT / MSFT / MU / TER / WDC / XLK / XRX / YHOO    
About the author: From Bespoke:
Submit
an article to

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%.

click to enlarge

About the author: Bespoke Investment Group
Bespoke Investment Group picture
Think B.I.G., by Bespoke Investment Group, provides some of the most original content and intuitive thinking on the Street. Founded by Paul Hickey and Justin Walters, formerly of Birinyi Associates and creators of the acclaimed TickerSense blog, Bespoke offers multiple products that allow... More
4058
Followers
0
Following
Send Message
3
Comments on this article
  •  
    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.
    2009 Jul 02 03:37 PM Reply
  •  
    we have in longs technology's blue cheeps IBM, MSFT, CSCO, SOHU. All of them have strong balance sheets and nice ammount of cash.
    2009 Jul 03 11:09 AM Reply
  •  
    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...
    2009 Jul 03 02:26 PM Reply