This week's HEXUS.sharewatch covers a two week period. In that time US markets have risen by, on average, two percent. But, as ever, there was considerable variation among individual stocks.
The biggest gainer was value-added distribution giant Avnet, which announced its bid for rival Bell Microproducts a couple of weeks ago. It looks like investors generally approved of the deal as, in the intervening time, Avnet's share price has risen by nearly ten percent.
Also formally launched in this period was Apple's iPad. Apple has wasted little time in crowing about how many it has sold and has stayed in the news with a preview of its next generation mobile operating system - iPhone OS 4. As a result Apple's share price closed on a new all-time high last week and its market cap is not too far from Microsoft's now.
Apple's shares cost $85 in early March 2009, so congratulations to anyone who bought then. The beers are on you.
| Company | Listing | Share price 15/3/10 | Share price 22/3/10 | Share price 29/3/10 | Share price 12/4/10 | 14-day change | Market cap (bn) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | AMD | 8.93 | 9.11 | 9.02 | 9.30 | 3.1% | 6.25 |
| Apple | AAPL | 226.70 | 222.30 | 230.90 | 241.79 | 4.7% | 219.25 |
| ARM | ARMH | 10.43 | 10.23 | 10.57 | 11.27 | 6.6% | 4.93 |
| Avnet | AVT | 28.79 | 29.07 | 28.37 | 31.07 | 9.5% | 4.71 |
| Cisco | CSCO | 25.88 | 26.15 | 26.47 | 26.60 | 0.5% | 152.30 |
| Dell | DELL | 14.26 | 14.41 | 14.99 | 15.83 | 5.6% | 30.99 |
| GOOG | 579.54 | 560.03 | 562.69 | 566.22 | 0.6% | 180.05 | |
| HP | HPQ | 52.36 | 52.49 | 53.42 | 53.87 | 0.8% | 126.33 |
| IBM | IBM | 127.94 | 127.71 | 129.26 | 128.76 | -0.4% | 167.26 |
| Ingram Micro | IM | 18.01 | 17.93 | 17.66 | 18.00 | 1.9% | 2.96 |
| Intel | INTC | 21.27 | 22.01 | 22.24 | 22.55 | 1.4% | 124.57 |
| Microsoft | MSFT | 29.24 | 29.61 | 29.66 | 30.34 | 2.3% | 266.10 |
| Nokia | NOK | 14.84 | 15.07 | 15.46 | 15.01 | -2.9% | 56.21 |
| Nvidia | NVDA | 17.25 | 17.25 | 17.34 | 16.99 | -2.0% | 9.62 |
| Oracle | ORCL | 25.05 | 25.19 | 25.69 | 26.13 | 1.7% | 131.15 |
| Qualcomm | QCOM | 38.95 | 40.05 | 41.83 | 42.17 | 0.8% | 70.87 |
| Tech Data | TECD | 43.26 | 44.00 | 41.93 | 42.94 | 2.4% | 2.21 |
| Dow | .DJI | 10624.69 | 10741.98 | 10850.36 | 10997.35 | 1.4% | N/A |
| FTSE 100 | .FTSE | 5625.65 | 5650.12 | 5732.62 | 5770.98 | 0.7% | N/A |
| NASDAQ | .IXIC | 2367.66 | 2374.41 | 2395.13 | 2454.05 | 2.5% | N/A |
