On Friday, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT)’s shares declined -0.97% to $58.31.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) is currently valued at $186.91 billion. The company has 3.21 billion shares outstanding and 30.60% shares of the company were owned by institutional investors. The company has 0.38 value in price to sale ratio while price to book ratio was recorded as 2.38. The company exchanged hands with 13.04 million shares as compared to its average daily volume of 12.86 million shares. It beta stands at 0.36.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates retail stores in various formats worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam’s Club. It operates discount stores, supermarkets, supercenters, hypermarkets, warehouse clubs, cash and carry stores, home improvement stores, specialty electronics stores, restaurants, apparel stores, drug stores, and convenience stores, as well as retail Websites, such as walmart.com and samsclub.com.
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW)’s shares dropped -0.06% to $17.59.
Corning Incorporated (GLW) declared the deployment of its ONE(TM) Wireless platform at Texas A&M University`s Kyle Field.
One of the largest college football stadiums in the U.S., the newly renovated home of the Texas A&M Aggies, now comprises a state-of-the art optical fiber infrastructure that delivers raised capacity and more reliable wireless service. ONE Wireless enables more than 100,000 fans to call, text, and tweet about being at the big game - all at the same time.
The IBM-designed network comprises Corning`s ONE Wireless Platform, the first all-optical solution to converge nearly every wired and wireless connectivity need into a single, unified infrastructure. ONE Wireless used half the space of, required significantly less material than, and will use less power than legacy copper-based networks or hybrid-fiber coax DAS solutions - while delivering near record-setting Wi-Fi network performance. When Kyle Field opened for Texas A&M`s 2015 football season on Sept. 12, happy fans took to social media to praise their best-in-class connectivity - with one user proudly tweeting his network speed test results.
Corning Incorporated manufactures and sells specialty glasses, ceramics, and related materials worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Display Technologies, Optical Communications, Environmental Technologies, Specialty Materials, and Life Sciences.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:MRVL)‘s shares surged 4.60% to $9.56.
Marvell (MRVL) introduced its industry leading high-performance, power-efficient Accelerated Data Path (ADP) solution based on its ARMADA®-385 system-on-chip (SoC). To address the increasing amount of central processing unit (CPU) traffic from the cloud, the cost-effective ARMADA-385 ADP solution is designed to offer an improved user experience, higher throughput and greater support for service providers and routers. With 5Gbps packet acceleration, the ARMADA-385 ADP is also designed to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for current and future bandwidth demands from wired and wireless 11ac Wave-2 routers and access points. ADP operates transparently and easily integrates with customers’ Linux support package; moreover, Linux extensions and security updates are seamlessly supported. Marvell’s patented technology allows automatic and efficient learning of the ongoing network traffic without additional installations or software, which differentiates the ARMADA-385 ADP from competing solutions in the wired and wireless space.
The ADP is feature-rich and optimized for Marvell’s Wi-Fi, switch and PHY solutions. It offers L2 bridging, Internet protocol version (IPv) 4 and 6 forwarding, Network Address Translation (NAT), 802.1Q virtual LAN, Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) tunnel support, QoS and per-flow statistics and aging, Firewall and IPSec. It services 11ac Wi-Fi routers and access point/extender solutions, and small office/home office (SOHO) security appliances, and fully supports Marvell 1GE and 2.5 GE PHYs.
The ARMADA-385 chip is part of Marvell’s ARMADA 38x family of proven embedded processors that is shipping in high volumes on several consumer, service provider, cloud and enterprise platforms. The Marvell ARMADA 38x family brings a new level of scalability, integration and efficiency based on dual-core ARM®v7-A at 2GHz to innovative home and enterprise products. It is designed for high-volume products such as Network Attached Storage (NAS), Wi-Fi Access Point (WAP), Surveillance Video Recorders (DVR/ NVR /Hybrid) and high-performance networking products such as control planes and line cards.
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. designs, develops, and markets analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits.