Best Retail Stocks To Watch Today – February 22nd

Tesla, Apple, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Alibaba Group, UnitedHealth Group, and Booking are the seven Retail stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. 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.

Shares of Tesla stock traded down $16.60 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $337.80. 73,720,762 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 69,682,248. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.09 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 165.59, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.86 and a beta of 2.34. Tesla has a twelve month low of $138.80 and a twelve month high of $488.54. The company has a current ratio of 2.02, a quick ratio of 1.61 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $400.17 and a 200 day simple moving average of $312.40.

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 traded down $0.28 on Friday, hitting $245.55. 53,102,300 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 49,742,392. Apple has a 1 year low of $164.07 and a 1 year high of $260.10. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $240.47 and its two-hundred day moving average is $232.55. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.69 trillion, a P/E ratio of 38.98, a P/E/G ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a quick ratio of 0.88, a current ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26.

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.

AMZN traded down $6.30 during trading on Friday, hitting $216.58. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 55,147,843 shares, compared to its average volume of 35,339,464. Amazon.com has a twelve month low of $151.61 and a twelve month high of $242.52. The stock has a market cap of $2.30 trillion, a PE ratio of 39.16, a PEG ratio of 1.54 and a beta of 1.15. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $227.88 and its 200-day moving average price is $203.96. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.06 and a quick ratio of 0.87.

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.

Microsoft stock traded down $7.88 during trading on Friday, hitting $408.25. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 27,440,364 shares, compared to its average volume of 23,130,024. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $425.20 and its 200 day moving average is $422.69. Microsoft has a 1-year low of $385.58 and a 1-year high of $468.35. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.03 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.87, a P/E/G ratio of 2.21 and a beta of 0.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a quick ratio of 1.34 and a current ratio of 1.35.

Alibaba Group (BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others.

BABA traded up $7.70 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $143.67. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 73,657,797 shares, compared to its average volume of 39,341,764. The firm has a market cap of $341.36 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.76, a PEG ratio of 0.57 and a beta of 0.31. Alibaba Group has a 52-week low of $68.36 and a 52-week high of $145.30. The company has a current ratio of 1.37, a quick ratio of 1.37 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $95.43 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $92.88.

UnitedHealth Group (UNH)

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a diversified health care company in the United States. The company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; health care coverage, and health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older addressing their needs; Medicaid plans, children's health insurance and health care programs; and health and dental benefits, and hospital and clinical services, as well as health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage.

UNH stock traded down $36.84 on Friday, hitting $465.58. 19,847,353 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,659,489. The stock has a market capitalization of $428.46 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.04, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.61. The business’s fifty day moving average is $519.27 and its two-hundred day moving average is $560.54. UnitedHealth Group has a twelve month low of $436.38 and a twelve month high of $630.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.74, a current ratio of 0.83 and a quick ratio of 0.91.

Booking (BKNG)

Booking Holdings Inc, formerly The Priceline Group Inc., is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands.

Shares of BKNG stock traded down $29.01 on Friday, reaching $4,989.22. 724,045 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 244,306. The stock has a market cap of $165.14 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.83, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.74 and a beta of 1.39. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $4,903.34 and a two-hundred day moving average of $4,551.96. Booking has a 1-year low of $3,180.00 and a 1-year high of $5,337.24.