Tech Stocks In News: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s second major bond sale, designed to fund its expansion of share buybacks from $60 billion to $90 billion, was more than three times over-subscribed, reports The Wall Street Journal. Apple will use proceeds from its bonds sale, which are rated double-A-plus, the second-highest rating, to fund the buyback rather than tap its massive $150 billion cash pile. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares after opening at $ 592.00 moved to $ 594.80 on last trade day and at the end of the day closed at $ 591.48. Company price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 2.89 and price to cash ratio as 12.32. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) showed a positive weekly performance of 4.18%

BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) saw a significant increase in short interest in April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 102,472,527 shares, an increase of 3.2% from the March 31st total of 99,334,950 shares, Analyst Ratings Network reports. Approximately 21.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 14,416,467 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.1 days. BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) shares advanced 4.05% in last trading session and ended the day on $ 7.97. BBRY return on equity ratio is recorded as -8.67% and its return on assets is -6.35%. BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) yearly performance is -49.56%.

Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 29th. The company reported $0.03 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.04 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $2.66 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.01 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted ($0.02) earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was down 54.5% on a year-over-year basis. Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) shares moved up/down -0.67% in last trading session and was closed at $ 7.45, while trading in range of $ 7.43 – 7.54. Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) year to date (YTD) performance is -8.14%

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) announced that its SeaMicro SM15000™ server received a 2014 Silver Award from the internationally renowned Edison Awards™ in the Applied Technology, Research and Business Optimization category. Competing finalists in the category included AT&T Nanocubes by AT&T Inc. and Archetype IQ System by Ipsos InnoQuest. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) weekly performance is -1.87%. On last trading day company shares ended up $ 4.20. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 7.75% Analysts mean target price for the company is $ 4.12.

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