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Chip Stocks In News: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD), QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) have been given a consensus rating of “Hold” by the twenty-four ratings firms that are presently covering the company, AnalystRatings.Net reports. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) stock performance was 0.54% in last session and finished the day at $3.73. Traded volume was 10,520,491 million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 22.63 million shares. The beta of the stock remained 2.71. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) insider ownership is 0.20%.

QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 22nd, StockRatingsNetwork.com reports. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 5th will be paid a dividend of 0.35 per share on Wednesday, March 26th. QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) rose 0.43 percent to $77.00 yesterday on volume of million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $76.54 to $77.18. QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) has a market capitalization of $130.21 million.

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) VP Thomas M. Kilroy unloaded 25,742 shares of Intel stock on the open market in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $24.52, for a total value of $631,193.84. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s stock on Mar 6, 2014 reported an increase of 0.53% to the closing price of $24.63. Its fifty two weeks range is $20.75 -$27.12. The total market capitalization recorded $122.46 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 22,357,577 million shares. In its share capital, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has 4.97 million outstanding shares.

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s EVP Ajay Puri sold 14,274 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $18.55, for a total transaction of $264,782.70. On Thursday, shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) dropped -1.39% to close the day at $18.38. Company return on investment (ROI) is 7.30% and its monthly performance is recorded as 18.50%. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) quarterly revenue growth is 17.29%.