Back in 1995 Xilinx Corp. xlnx ( xlnx) was on top of the world.
To take advantage of additional upside from XLNX, traders should consider a December 25 call.
The stock is also popular among short-sellers, with more than 8.6% of XLNX's float sold short.
On the options front, XLNX's SOIR of 2.33 means that puts more than double calls among near-term options.
Other competitors in the technology sector include: Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), Xilinx (XLNX), and Texas Instruments (TXN).
One concern for a bullish position on XLNX would be long-term technical resistance in the 27.50 to 28 level.
Finally, Wall Street has not fully bought into XLNX's positive price action.
This morning, he raised his ratings on Texas Instruments (TXN), Xilinx (XLNX) and ON Semicondcutor (ONNN) to Overweight from Neutral.
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Covello writes that he sees the most downside risk in the chip sector for Xilinx (XLNX), Micron (MU) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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Xilinx (XLNX) is expected to report poor first quarter earnings on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 with analysts expecting a 19.6% drop in earnings from a year ago.
The other vice presidents kept silent, says Steel, who had previously been chief financial officer at chipmaker Xilinx (nasdaq: XLNX - news - people ).
This strong financial position has buoyed XLNX to a gain of more than 25% on a year-to-date basis, pushing the shares past the outperforming COMP's loss of about 7%.
Macquarie Research analyst Shawn Webster asserted in a research note earlier today that both Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM) and Xilinx (XLNX) could both see some production disruption as a result of the earthquake in Japan.
Among the largest underlying components of SMH, in trading today Arm Holdings plc ( NASD: ARMH) is off about 0.9%, ASML Holding NV ( NASD: ASML) is down about 0.8%, and Xilinx, Inc. ( NASD: XLNX) is relatively unchanged.
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Among the largest underlying components of SMH, in trading today ASML Holding NV ( NASD: ASML) is off about 2.6%, Arm Holdings plc ( NASD: ARMH) is up about 0.5%, and Xilinx, Inc. ( NASD: XLNX) is higher by about 0.6%.
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