The netbook effect?
There are no conclusive reasons why NVIDIA should have experienced such a dramatic jump in its share price, but it has been getting a lot of favourable coverage of its Ion netbook graphics platform recently. Additionally forecasts of the graphics market starting to pick up towards the end of this year may have helped.
The rest of the semiconductor gang all experienced double figure rises, as did Yahoo! and Apple. Microsoft also saw a jump in the week it revealed what form the next Windows - Windows 7 - is going to take.
Again this could have been influenced by the netbook market, which let's not forget is outgrowing the rest of the PC market, after Microsoft revealed that that it will be releasing a version of Windows 7 especially with the netbook in mind. This will have offered reassurance to investors who feared Windows was going to be sidelined by Linux on netbooks.
| Company | Listing | Share price 19/1/09 | Share price 26/1/09 | Share price 2/2/09 | Share price 9/2/09 | 7-day change | Market cap (bn) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | AMD | 2.29 | 2.07 | 2.19 | 2.41 | 10.0% | 1.47 |
| Apple | AAPL | 82.33 | 88.36 | 90.13 | 99.72 | 10.6% | 88.81 |
| Avnet | AVT | 17.96 | 18.68 | 19.82 | 20.80 | 4.9% | 3.13 |
| Dell | DELL | 10.27 | 10.14 | 9.50 | 9.46 | -0.4% | 18.39 |
| GOOG | 299.67 | 324.70 | 338.53 | 371.28 | 9.7% | 116.86 | |
| HP | HPQ | 34.77 | 35.79 | 34.75 | 36.85 | 6.0% | 88.71 |
| IBM | IBM | 84.92 | 89.49 | 91.65 | 96.14 | 4.9% | 129.16 |
| Ingram Micro | IM | 13.50 | 13.19 | 12.27 | 13.17 | 7.3% | 2.17 |
| Intel | INTC | 13.74 | 13.12 | 12.90 | 14.73 | 14.2% | 81.93 |
| Microsoft | MSFT | 19.71 | 17.20 | 17.10 | 19.66 | 15.0% | 174.79 |
| Nvidia | NVDA | 7.99 | 7.71 | 7.95 | 9.87 | 24.2% | 5.30 |
| Tech Data | TECD | 19.41 | 19.04 | 18.11 | 19.74 | 9.0% | 0.99 |
| Yahoo | YHOO | 11.59 | 11.32 | 11.73 | 13.63 | 16.2% | 18.89 |
| Dow | .DJI | 8281.22 | 8077.56 | 8000.86 | 8280.59 | 3.5% | N/A |
| FTSE 100 | .FTSE | 4147.06 | 4052.47 | 4149.64 | 4291.87 | 3.4% | N/A |
| NASDAQ | .IXIC | 1529.33 | 1477.29 | 1476.42 | 1591.71 | 7.8% | N/A |
