Best Social Media Stocks To Watch Today – May 17th

Shopify, Vertiv, Mondelez International, HubSpot, and Expedia Group are the five Social Media stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Social media stocks are the publicly traded shares of companies that operate social networking platforms, messaging apps or content‐sharing services. These companies typically generate revenue through advertising, subscription fees or data monetization, making user growth and engagement key drivers of their financial performance. Investors buy social media stocks to gain exposure to the sector’s rapid growth potential and network‐effect economics. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Social Media stocks within the last several days.

Shopify (SHOP)

Shopify Inc., a commerce company, provides a commerce platform and services in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Australia, China, and Latin America. The company’s platform enables merchants to displays, manages, markets, and sells its products through various sales channels, including web and mobile storefronts, physical retail locations, pop-up shops, social media storefronts, native mobile apps, buy buttons, and marketplaces; and enables to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, fulfill and ship orders, new buyers and build customer relationships, source products, leverage analytics and reporting, manage cash, payments and transactions, and access financing.

SHOP traded up $0.54 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $110.75. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 96,037,521 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,569,946. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $94.30 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $103.73. The firm has a market cap of $143.40 billion, a P/E ratio of 71.45, a PEG ratio of 4.82 and a beta of 2.66. Shopify has a 52-week low of $48.56 and a 52-week high of $129.38.

Vertiv (VRT)

Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

NYSE:VRT traded up $0.63 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $106.01. The stock had a trading volume of 5,133,281 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,030,357. Vertiv has a 1-year low of $53.60 and a 1-year high of $155.84. The company has a current ratio of 1.65, a quick ratio of 1.02 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.19. The company has a market cap of $40.40 billion, a PE ratio of 82.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.07 and a beta of 1.70. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $82.70 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $106.05.

Mondelez International (MDLZ)

Mondelez International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and sells snack food and beverage products in the Latin America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. It provides biscuits and baked snacks, including cookies, crackers, salted snacks, snack bars, and cakes and pastries; chocolates; and gums and candies, as well as various cheese and grocery, and powdered beverage products.

MDLZ stock traded up $0.18 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $65.32. The company had a trading volume of 8,014,668 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,976,422. Mondelez International has a one year low of $53.95 and a one year high of $76.06. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $66.15 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $63.41. The company has a quick ratio of 0.48, a current ratio of 0.68 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.58. The stock has a market capitalization of $84.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.10, a P/E/G ratio of 4.34 and a beta of 0.50.

HubSpot (HUBS)

HubSpot, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, a toolset for marketing automation and email, social media, SEO, and reporting and analytics; Sales Hub offers email templates and tracking, conversations and live chat, meeting and call scheduling, lead and website visit alerts, lead scoring, sales automation, pipeline management, quoting, forecasting, and reporting; Service Hub, a service software designed to help businesses manage, respond, and connect with customers; and Content Management Systems Hub enables businesses to create new and edit existing web content.

HUBS traded down $3.62 during trading on Friday, reaching $660.43. The company had a trading volume of 687,933 shares, compared to its average volume of 621,704. HubSpot has a 12-month low of $434.84 and a 12-month high of $881.13. The company has a market cap of $34.76 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7,338.97, a PEG ratio of 41.44 and a beta of 1.78. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $588.18 and its 200 day simple moving average is $670.37.

Expedia Group (EXPE)

Expedia Group, Inc. operates as an online travel company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through B2C, B2B, and trivago segments. Its B2C segment includes Brand Expedia, a full-service online travel brand offers various travel products and services; Hotels.com for lodging accommodations; Vrbo, an online marketplace for the alternative accommodations; Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif Group, ebookers, CheapTickets, Hotwire.com and CarRentals.com.

EXPE traded up $0.45 on Friday, hitting $166.66. The company had a trading volume of 1,758,482 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,935,257. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $160.47 and its 200 day moving average price is $175.93. Expedia Group has a 1-year low of $107.25 and a 1-year high of $207.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.87, a current ratio of 0.72 and a quick ratio of 0.72. The stock has a market cap of $21.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.42, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.92 and a beta of 1.62.