ALTR, JASO, MO, FDO, CAT Hit New 52-Week Highs
List of stocks who have just hit new 52-week highs as of Wednesday, September 29, 2010.
Altera Corp (NASDAQ:ALTR) hit a new 52 week high of $30.97 in intraday trading and closed at $30.62 +5.37% on 24,966,500 shares traded. Altera Corp. designs, manufactures and markets high-performance, high-density programmable logic devices, HardCopy ASIC devices, pre-defined design building blocks, cores and associated development tools.
JA Solar Holdings CO. LTD (NASDAQ:JASO) hit a new 52 week high of $9.26 in intraday trading and closed at $8.91 +7.48% on 17,515,500 shares traded. The Company designs, manufactures and markets high-performance solar cells, which are made from specially processed silicon wafers.
Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) hit a new 52 week high of $24.33 in intraday trading and closed at $24.25 +1.00% on 10,559,800 shares traded. Altria Group, Inc. through its subsidiaries manufactures and sells cigarettes, other tobacco products, machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco. It also maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases.
Family Dollar Stores (NYSE:FDO) hit a new 52 week high of $45.10 in intraday trading and closed at $44.05 +2.51% on 8,229,700 shares traded. Family Dollar Stores, Inc. operates more than 6,600 general merchandise retail discount stores in 44 states. Merchandise assortment includes consumables, home products, apparel accessories, seasonal and electronics.
Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) hit a new 52 week high of $80.00 in intraday trading and closed at $79.99 +0.57% on 7,927,500 shares traded. Caterpillar Inc. provides construction and mining equipment; diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. It also provides financing alternatives to its customers.
Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) hit a new 52 week high of $170.75 in intraday trading and closed at $170.63 +3.42% on 7,776,100 shares traded. Netflix, Inc. is a provider of subscription service streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet and sending DVDs by mail.
Silver Wheaton Corp (NYSE:SLW) hit a new 52 week high of $27.09 in intraday trading and closed at $26.99 +1.70% on 7,267,300 shares traded. Silver Wheaton Corporation operates as a silver streaming company in the world.
Philip Morris INTL (NYSE:PM) hit a new 52 week high of $56.65 in intraday trading and closed at $56.32 +1.55% on 6,277,800 shares traded. Philip Morris International Inc is the holding company whose subsidiaries and affiliates and their licensees are engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in markets outside the United States of America.
Renesola LTD (NYSE:SOL) hit a new 52 week high of $12.29 in intraday trading and closed at $12.17 +5.09% on 6,184,900 shares traded. The Company develops, manufactures and sells solar wafers, which are thin sheets of crystalline silicon material mainly made by slicing monocrystalline or multicrystalline ingots.
XL Capital LTD (NYSE:XL) hit a new 52 week high of $21.79 in intraday trading and closed at $21.72 +1.35% on 5,971,500 shares traded. XL Group plc, through its subsidiaries, is a provider of global insurance and reinsurance coverages to industrial, commercial and professional service firms, insurance companies and other enterprises.
