QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) Chairman Paul E. Jacobs unloaded 70,000 shares of QUALCOMM stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $75.23, for a total value of $5,266,100.00.QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) stock performance was 3.05% in last session and finished the day at $77.02. Traded volume was 13,822,757 million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 9.51 million shares. The beta of the stock remained 1.10. QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) insider ownership is 1.25%.
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) popped 70%, with investors excited about its recently approved oral hepatitis-C treatment, Sovaldi, with its reported cure rates near 90% in clinical trials. Insurers and medical bigwigs are less excited, though, objecting to its very steep price tag of around $84,000 for a 12-week course. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) rose 0.53 percent to $75.45 yesterday on volume of 14.10 million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $75.08 to $76.86. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) has a market capitalization of $116.06 billion.
BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) has announced yet another round of layoffs. This time, more than 120 workers are losing their jobs. The struggling Canadian company issued a statement saying it continues to try to become profitable again and “optimize” its resources in order to meet their operational targets. BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)’s stock on Mar17, 2014 reported a decrease of -1.50% to the closing price of $9.17. Its fifty two weeks range is $5.44 -$16.82. The total market capitalization recorded $4.83 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 12,944,781 million shares. In its share capital, BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) has 524.16 million outstanding shares.
The stock price of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) jumped 4% to $39.11 per share after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd disclosed that it started the process for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States on Monday. On Monday, shares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) advanced 4.02% to close the day at $39.11. Company return on investment (ROI) is 3.10% and its monthly performance is recorded as 1.53%. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) quarterly revenue growth is -0.61%.