Promising Retail Stocks To Consider – May 5th

Tesla, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Microsoft, and Amazon.com are the five Retail stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Retail stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business is selling goods or services directly to consumers, such as clothing, groceries, electronics, or household items. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to consumer spending trends and retail sector health. Performance of retail stocks often reflects factors like economic conditions, consumer confidence, and seasonal shopping patterns. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Retail stocks within the last several days.

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.

TSLA stock traded down $5.64 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $281.57. The company had a trading volume of 66,537,930 shares, compared to its average volume of 95,754,143. The company has a market capitalization of $906.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 138.13, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.43. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $258.82 and a 200 day simple moving average of $325.91. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a quick ratio of 1.61 and a current ratio of 2.02. Tesla has a fifty-two week low of $167.41 and a fifty-two week high of $488.54.

Apple (AAPL)

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide. The company offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; Mac, a line of personal computers; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and wearables, home, and accessories comprising AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, and HomePod.

Shares of AAPL stock traded down $4.47 during midday trading on Monday, hitting $200.88. The company had a trading volume of 38,706,605 shares, compared to its average volume of 59,301,707. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 0.92 and a quick ratio of 0.88. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $212.15 and its 200 day simple moving average is $228.58. Apple has a 52-week low of $169.21 and a 52-week high of $260.10. The stock has a market cap of $3.02 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.89, a PEG ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.26.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

BRK.B traded down $23.44 during trading on Monday, hitting $516.36. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 12,801,179 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,201,439. The stock has a market cap of $1.11 trillion, a PE ratio of 10.43, a PEG ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 0.88. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $517.44 and its 200-day moving average price is $483.16. Berkshire Hathaway has a twelve month low of $399.26 and a twelve month high of $542.07.

Microsoft (MSFT)

Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services.

Shares of MSFT traded up $3.10 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $438.38. 9,083,918 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 21,324,869. The firm has a market cap of $3.26 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.31, a P/E/G ratio of 2.21 and a beta of 0.99. The company has a quick ratio of 1.34, a current ratio of 1.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $384.93 and a 200 day simple moving average of $411.03. Microsoft has a 12-month low of $344.79 and a 12-month high of $468.35.

Amazon.com (AMZN)

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Echo, Ring, Blink, and eero; and develops and produces media content.

Shares of AMZN stock traded down $2.46 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $187.52. The stock had a trading volume of 20,894,683 shares, compared to its average volume of 41,613,988. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.99 trillion, a PE ratio of 33.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.50 and a beta of 1.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.06 and a quick ratio of 0.87. Amazon.com has a twelve month low of $151.61 and a twelve month high of $242.52. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $190.48 and a 200-day simple moving average of $208.06.