On Thursday, NXP Semiconductors NV (NASDAQ:NXPI)’s shares declined -19.71% to $73.00.
NXP Semiconductors NV (NXPI) is currently valued at $22.89 billion. The company has 232.32 million shares outstanding and 86.80% shares of the company were owned by institutional investors. The company has 3.05 value in price to sale ratio while price to book ratio was recorded as -26.07. The company exchanged hands with 36.65 million shares as compared to its average daily volume of 3.54 million shares. It beta stands at 2.76.
NXP Semiconductors declared that its NFC smart security solutions will be comprised in the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) Interface Public Members (IPM) Connected anti-counterfeiting program. IPM is the WCO’s on-line tool to combat counterfeiting by providing customs officers with key operational product information to assist them distinguish between genuine and fake products. Over the past year, the WCO has developed IPM Connected, a global network of security solution providers interfaced with IPM that enables customs officials to instantly verify the authenticity of a product. NXP’s full suite of high-performance NFC tag solutions, based on established standards that ensure maximum compatibility with NFC-enabled devices, will gradually interface into the IPM anti-counterfeiting platform providing a secure authentication service for brand owners.
Brand owners or rights holders can apply NFC tags to protect their products at the point of manufacture. These secure NFC tags provide an additional scaled layer of security and can be used to deliver details on the product only known by the brand owner or rights holder. Genuine products can be quickly and reliably verified at any point in the supply chain by an NFC-enabled device, such as a smartphone or a computer with a connected reader. As goods pass international borders customs officials using the WCO’s IPM web or mobile application will be able to dynamically spot-check the authenticity of the product by cross referencing real-time information offered by the brand owners. With many existing anti-counterfeiting technologies, such as bar codes and holograms, already being duplicated by counterfeiters NFC is quickly emerging as the next force in brand authentication and source-to-sale channel traceability.
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a holding company. The Company is a semiconductor company. The Company provides high performance mixed signal and standard product solutions. Its product solutions are used in a range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.
General Motors Company (NYSE:GM)’s shares dropped -1.36% to $34.74.
General Motors Company (GM) offered 8.30% EPS for prior five years. The company has 12.80% return on equity value while its ROI ratio was 1.80%. The company has $54.18 billion market capitalizations and the institutional ownership was 77.90%. Its price to book ratio was 1.58. Volatility of the stock was 2.11% for the week while for the month booked as 2.26%.
General Motors Company (General Motors) designs, builds and sells cars, trucks and automobile parts across the world. The Company also provides automotive financing services through General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (GM Financial). The Company’s four automotive segments comprise GM North America (GMNA), GM Europe (GME), GM International Operations (GMIO) and GM South America (GMSA).
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR)‘s shares dipped -5.02% to $9.83.
Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR) has market value of $3.42 billion while its EPS was booked as $-2.51 in the last 12 months. The stock has 330.63 million shares outstanding while 76.50% shares of the company were owned by institutional investors. In the profitability analysis, the company has gross profit margin of 35.60% while net profit margin was -12.00%. Beta value of the company was 2.54; beta is used to measure riskiness of the security.
Nabors Industries Ltd. owns and operates a land-based drilling rig fleet in North America. The Company provides of offshore platform work over and drilling rigs. Its business is conducted through two business lines: Drilling & Rig Services and Completion & Production Services. It provides drilling technology and equipment and well-site services, counting engineering, transportation and disposal, construction, maintenance, well logging, directional drilling, rig instrumentation, data collection and other support services.