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Sunday 3 January 2016
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Three Best Stocks Under Consideration: Advanced Micro Devices, (NASDAQ:AMD), Seadrill (NYSE:SDRL), Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK)

On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD)’s shares inclined 2.74% to $3.00. With its recent share price change, AMD market value has reached roughly $2.31 billion. Its most recent quarter balance sheet showed the company is standing at a 1.70 current ratio and possess 1.20 as debt to equity ratio. The company has a Profit Margin (ttm) of negative -21.60% and has 27.10% gross margins. The operating profit margin is -19.30%. The stock’s performance in 1 month is 26.05% and its volatility for the same period is 6.19%.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. The company’s products primarily comprise x86 microprocessors as an accelerated processing unit (APU), chipsets, discrete graphics processing units (GPUs), and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products.

Seadrill Ltd (NYSE:SDRL)’s shares dropped -5.09% to $3.63. The market capitalization of Seadrill Ltd (NYSE:SDRL) is $1.94 billion with the total traded volume of the company is 5.51 million. Turning to market valuation, the Price-to-Earnings ratio is 1.61, the Price-to-Sales ratio is 0.37 and the Price-to-Book ratio is finally 0.17. The beta ratio has a value of 1.64.

Seadrill Limited, an offshore drilling contractor, provides offshore drilling services to the oil and gas industry worldwide. The company operates through Floaters and Jack-up Rigs segments.

Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK)‘s shares dipped -0.17% to $71.92.

Duke Energy’s projected acquisition of Piedmont Natural Gas (PNY) has cleared a key condition needed for completion, the two companies declared recently.

The Federal Trade Commission has granted early termination of the 30-day waiting period under the federal Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act with regard to the acquisition.

Expiration or termination of the waiting period is one of the conditions required for completion of the acquisition.

The transaction still requires approval by Piedmont shareholders and the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Duke Energy and Piedmont also are providing information regarding the acquisition to the Public Service Commission of South Carolina and the Tennessee Regulatory Authority.

The companies are targeting a closing of the transaction by the end of 2016.

Duke Energy Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, operates as an energy company in the United States and Latin America. It operates through three segments: Regulated Utilities, International Energy, and Commercial Power. The Regulated Utilities segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity in the Carolinas, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; and transports and sells natural gas in southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky.

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