Nvidia’s Savvy Capital Return Efforts

This program intended to return cash to shareholders through regular dividends and share repurchases. In November 2012, Nvidia announced its first quarterly dividend of $0.075 per share.Based on the closing price on the day of the announcement, this represented an annual dividend yield of 2.4% — a healthy yield for a nimble, relatively small,tech company with above average growth prospects.

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Staying relevant through constant innovation and disruption is more important in the tech industry than in arguably any other sector. By investing heavily in research and development , these companies are making expensive bets on the future and what technology and trends will lead it — along with their own sales and profits.

Better Buy: Ambarella Inc vs. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Investors looking for a semiconductor play might look to Ambarella’s beat-down stock as a turnaround play, or they might be tempted into hitching a ride with AMD in hopes of more gains. But which is really the better buy? AMD’s stock price gains have come as the company made solid improvements to its revenue, expanded its position in the graphics processing unit market, and looks to opportunities in new markets like virtual reality .

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Micron’s stock has risen more than 40% so far in 2016, easily outpacing the Nasdaq ‘s 8% return. However, since the end of the dot-com bubble sell-off around the start of 2003, a far more important long-term pattern has emerged that anyone considering investing in Micron ought to consider: have also underperformed the tech-heavy Nasdaq, Micron shares have performed slightly worse than Intel while also proving far more volatile in the process.