Facebook’s latest diversity report is stark reminder of the gulf between the goal of a multiracial workforce and the company’s current monoculture.
The social media giant published its 2017 diversity report on Wednesday. Facebook has increased its Hispanic and Black workforce by 1% each, to 5% and 3%, respectively. But when it comes to its tech workforce — its coders, developers, and engineers — the numbers are static at 3% and 1%, respectively.
Tech companies like Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) and Facebook (FB, Tech30) started voluntarily releasing the reports in 2014 to indicate their progress solving a long-standing problem in the technology industry. The effort is praised by diversity advocates as a means of benchmarking the company’s workforce and identifying what efforts are working.
In three years, the reports have become more robust but the results are still largely underwhelming. They tend to contain language that’s sterile and prescriptive. Most can be reduced to something like: “We aren’t where we’d like to be.” That’s from Facebook’s global director of diversity Maxine Williams in Wednesday’s post about the new report.
Top Tech Stocks To Watch For 2018: Arc Wireless Solutions Inc.(ARCW)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Jim Robertson]
On Thursday, our Under the Radar Moversnewsletter suggested small cap manufacturing and 3D printing service provider ARC Group WorldWide (NASDAQ: ARCW) as a short trade:
Top Tech Stocks To Watch For 2018: Oclaro, Inc.(OCLR)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Friday's regular session.
- [By Evan Niu, CFA]
Shares of optical component companies have dropped today, includingOclaro (NASDAQ:OCLR), Acacia (NASDAQ:ACIA), Lumentum (NASDAQ:LITE), and Finisar (NASDAQ:FNSR), whose shares were down 11%, 11%, 6%, and 3%, respectively, as of 3:30 p.m. EDT, after the U.S. broadened its investigation regarding compliance with sanctions programs.
- [By Peter Graham]
Small cap fiber-optic networking product Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ: AAOI), a potential peer of EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ: EMKR), Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) and Oclaro Inc (NASDAQ: OCLR), is thefifth mostshorted stock on theNASDAQ with short interest of 47.69% according to Highshortnterest.com.
- [By Arie Goren]
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(NSDQ:AMD)had been by far the best performer in 2016 among all the 413 Russell 3000 tech stocks. Its stock price appreciation of 295.1% in 2016 was significantly higher than the second ranked tech stock NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA (NSDQ:NVDA)which gained 223.8% and the third-ranked stock Oclaro Inc. (NSDQ:OCLR)which was up 157.2% in 2016.
Top Tech Stocks To Watch For 2018: Tencent Holdings Ltd (700)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Belinda Cao]
Sohu.com Inc. (SOHU), which sold a stake in its search unit to Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700), advanced 11 percent for the week to $72.06. It retreated 5.9 percent Sept. 20. Tencent, Chinas biggest Internet company by market value, paid $448 million for a 36.5 percent stake in Sohus Sogou unit last week and merge its own search service with Sogou.
Top Tech Stocks To Watch For 2018: Avago Technologies Limited(AVGO)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Chris Lange]
Broadcom Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO) short interest fell to 3.97 million shares in the period, from the previous of 4.43 million. Shares closed most recently at $176.75, in a 52-week range of $114.25 to $179.42.
- [By Chris Lange]
Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ: AVGO) reported fiscal fourth-quarter financial results after markets closed on Thursday. The company said that it had a net loss of $1.59 per share and $4.14 billion in revenue. Thomson Reuters did not have estimates readily available at this time. The same period from last year had $1.49 in earnings per share (EPS) and $1.84 billion in revenue.
- [By Lisa Levin]
Technology sector was the top gainer in the US market on Friday. Top gainers in the sector included LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPSN), Vicor Corp (NASDAQ: VICR), and Broadcom Ltd (NASDAQ: AVGO).
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In gainers, Broadcom (AVGO) shares added 4.15%, to 177.80, after the chipmaker posted better-than-anticipated results for its fiscal 2016 fourth quarter and full year as it reaps the benefits from the combination with Avago.
