Below are the top 10 rebounding Computer Hardware stocks, ranked based on % change from 52-week lows.

Hypercom Corporation (NYSE:HYC) is the 1st best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 181% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 67% of its 52-week high. Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ:STX) is the 2nd best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 119% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 98% of its 52-week high. Xyratex Ltd. (NASDAQ:XRTX) is the 3rd best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 111% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 99% of its 52-week high. OCZ Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ:OCZ) is the 4th best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 103% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 77% of its 52-week high. Stratasys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSYS) is the 5th best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 101% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 65% of its 52-week high.

Agilysys, Inc. (NASDAQ:AGYS) is the 6th best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 89% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 84% of its 52-week high. Key Tronic Corporation (NASDAQ:KTCC) is the 7th best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 86% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 99% of its 52-week high. Quantum Corporation (NYSE:QTM) is the 8th best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 83% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 72% of its 52-week high. Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL) is the 9th best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 80% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 64% of its 52-week high. LG Display Co Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE:LPL) is the 10th best rebounding stock in this segment of the market. It has risen 72% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 67% of its 52-week high.

Source:http://www.cnanalyst.com/2012/01/top-10-rebounding-computer-hardware-stocks-hyc-stx-xrtx-ocz-ssys-agys-ktcc-qtm-panl-lpl-jan-26-2012-.html

Below are the three companies in the Computer Hardware industry with the lowest Enterprise Value (EV) to Sales ratios. EV/Sales gives investors an idea of how much it costs to buy the company’s sales and the lower the ratio, the more undervalued the company is believed to be.

Concurrent Computer (NASDAQ:CCUR) is lowest with EV/Sales of 0.03. Concurrent Computer Corporation provides computer systems for both the emerging video-on-demand (VOD) market and real-time applications. The Company provides VOD servers and related software primarily to residential cable television operators and markets its computer systems to government agencies, government suppliers, and commercial markets.

In the past 52 weeks, Concurrent Computer share prices have been bracketed by a low of $3.25 and a high of $6.89 and are now at $3.47, 7% above that low price. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has fallen 4.8% while the 200-day MA has slid 1%.

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is next with EV/Sales of 0.38.

Potential upside of 9.0% exists for Dell, based on a current level of $15.92 and analysts’ average consensus price target of $17.36. The stock should discover initial support at its 200-day moving average (MA) of $15.44 and subsequent support at its 50-day MA of $15.35.

Finishing up the bottom three is Cray (NASDAQ:CRAY), with EV/Sales of 0.38. Thus far today, Cray has traded 37,000 shares, vs. average volume of 256,000 shares per day. The stock has underperformed the Dow (1.0% to the Dow’s 1.3%) and underperformed the S&P 500 (1.0% to the S&P’s 1.7%) during today’s trading.

Source:http://www.fnno.com/story/fast-lane/331-concurrent-computer-ranks-lowest-terms-enterprise-value-sales-ratio-computer-hardware-industry-ccur-dell-cra

Below are the five companies in the Computer Hardware industry with the highest Price to Earnings to Growth (PEG) ratios. PEG is valuable in assessing the tradeoff between the price of a stock and expected growth. Generally, the lower the PEG, the better.

Cray (NASDAQ:CRAY – Snapshot Report) has the highest with a PEG Ratio of 2.40x; Avid Technology (NASDAQ:AVID – Snapshot Report) is next with a PEG Ratio of 1.97x; and Stratasys (NASDAQ:SSYS – Analyst Report) has the next highest with a PEG Ratio of 1.36x.

Diebold (NYSE:DBD – Snapshot Report) follows with a PEG Ratio of 1.26x and Dell (NASDAQ:DELL – Analyst Report) rounds out the group with a PEG Ratio of 0.89x.

SmarTrend currently has shares of Avid Technology in an Downtrend and issued the Downtrend alert on July 22, 2011 at $14.93. The stock has fallen 37.4% since the Downtrend alert was issued.

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NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP), the storage and data management solutions provider traded at 43.03, which represents -2.89% versus its previous trading session close,added downward pressure to technology shares, with the Technology Select Sector Spider (NYSE:XLK) trading -0.97% from its previous trading session close.

Technology shares traded flat with the S&P500, which traded lower by -0.97%.

Among the computer hardware makers, NetApp was the worst performer in the Computer Hardware Index (NYSE:^HWI), which traded lower by 0.58%. The index is had a mixed day with only 4 components trading higher.

Western Digital (NYSE:WDC), is a worst performer as well. The maker of hard drives for computers and entertainment systems ended the trading session at $31.06 representing -1.3% Versus the previous trading session. Shares of Western Digital have defined support at $39.20 and resistance at $52.09.

Relative strength in the Computer Hardware Index was felt in Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), which was the top performer in the session, with the stock trading at $15.8 representing 1.94% versus the previous trading session. Shares of Dell, the 3rd largest personal computer maker in the world have defined support at $13.46 and resistance at $17.60.

The other top performer was Seagate (NASDAQ:STX), which traded at $12.16 representing 1.25% from its previous close. Seagate, the maker of hard drives and storage solutions has calculated support and resistance levels at $10.70 and $17.17 respectively.

Source:http://www.tradershuddle.com/20110816156183994/Stocks/computer-hardware-lower-ntap-wdc-dell-stx.html

We looked at the Computer Hardware industry and measured relative performance to find the top stocks. Relative outperformance is a bullish sign of underlying fundamental and technical strength. We look at yesterday’s price action of all companies in this peer group.

Silicon Graphics International (NYSE:SGI) ranks first with a gain of 7.16%; NCR (NYSE:NCR) ranks second with a gain of 4.25%; and Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) ranks third with a gain of 4.24%.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) follows with a gain of 1.70% and Diebold (NYSE:DBD) rounds out the top five with a gain of 0.87%.

Silicon Graphics International Corporation manufactures large-scale clustered computing, clustered storage and high performance computing products, and offers data center services.

Source:http://www.fnno.com/story/fast-lane/331-relatively-good-performance-detected-shares-silicon-graphics-international-computer-hardware-industry-sgi-nc

Below are the top 10 fastest-growing Computer Hardware stocks, based on the average long-term earnings growth rate estimated by Wall Street analysts.

3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) is the 1st fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 25.4%. This number is based on the average estimate of 3 brokerage analyst(s). SMART Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:SMT) is the 2nd fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 24.0%. This number is based on the average estimate of 3 brokerage analyst(s). Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the 3rd fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 20.8%. This number is based on the average estimate of 14 brokerage analyst(s). Digi International Inc. (NASDAQ:DGII) is the 4th fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 18.1%. This number is based on the average estimate of 4 brokerage analyst(s). Stratasys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSYS) is the 5th fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 18.0%. This number is based on the average estimate of 5 brokerage analyst(s).

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the 6th fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 15.6%. This number is based on the average estimate of 10 brokerage analyst(s). Cardtronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATM) is the 7th fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 15.5%. This number is based on the average estimate of 5 brokerage analyst(s). RadiSys Corporation (NASDAQ:RSYS) is the 8th fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 15.0%. This number is based on the average estimate of 3 brokerage analyst(s). Synaptics, Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) is the 9th fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 14.4%. This number is based on the average estimate of 4 brokerage analyst(s). Logitech International SA (USA) (NASDAQ:LOGI) is the 10th fastest-growing stock in this segment of the market. Its long-term annual EPS growth is expected to be 13.4%. This number is based on the average estimate of 4 brokerage analyst(s)

Source:http://www.cnanalyst.com/2011/08/top-10-fastest-growing-computer-hardware-stocks-ddd-smt-aapl-dgii-ssys-emc-catm-rsys-syna-logi-aug-1.html