Over the last 6 months, there have three tech stocks performing significantly worse than the other ones. They are: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC), Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ:CREE). The stock performance is measured by the returns on shares over a given time period, which could be any amount of time. Stocks can in theory be measured by days, weeks, months or years.
Regarding Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), its shares have dropped to $1.79, which is a dip of -0.56%, making its year-to-date total return at -32.96%. Over a 12-month period (from date today), the stock dropped -53.26% to -$2.04. This particular stock has traded on a 15.97 million volume. It is down over its 50-day moving average of $2.25. Its lowest price came in on July 17 of this year at $1.74; it was down -53.26% (-$2.04).
For Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC), it had a last closing price of $78.52, which is remarkably lower than its 200-day moving average cost of $96.76. It can also be measured in terms of the last 52 weeks. Upon doing so, one sees its price ranged from $75.92 to $114.69; the high of $114.69 was reached on December 19 of last year. The $75.92 low was on July 13 or about 10 days ago. Through close, the stock is down -20.09% in 2015. Its performance at last close was -0.22%.
Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ:CREE) is down from its high of $50.60 on August 11 of last year. Its 52-week low was on July 7 of this year, when it was $23.63. At time of last close, the stock fell -50.69%. Its downbeat performance at time of last close was -3.06%; this rate was maintained over the last period of one month at -20.22%. These are the three low tech stocks as of last close.
