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November 23, 2009 6:22 PM ET

Altera Corp. (ALTR:NASDAQ)

LAST $20.83 USD
CHANGE TODAY +0.16 0.77%
VOLUME 5.3M
As of 4:00 PM 11/23/09 All times are local (Market data by Reuters is delayed by at least 15 minutes).

Snapshot of Altera Corp. (ALTR)

OPEN
$20.95
PREVIOUS CLOSE
$20.67
DAY HIGH
$21.14
DAY LOW
$20.77
52 WEEK HIGH
10/14/09 - $22.15
52 WEEK LOW
12/5/08 - $12.99
MARKET CAP
6.2B
AVERAGE VOLUME 3 mo
6.3M
DILUTED EPS TTM
$0.78
SHARES OUTSTANDING
295.4M
EX-DATE
11/6/09
P/E TTM
26.7x
DIVIDEND
$0.20
DIVIDEND YIELD
0.96%
K = Thousands  M = Millions  B = Billions

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ALTR Details

Altera Corp. designs, manufactures, and markets programmable logic devices (plds); structured application-specific integrated circuit devices; predefined design building blocks or intellectual-property cores; and associated development tools. Its programmable logic devices are semiconductor integrated circuits. Altera also provides HardCopy, HardCopy II, and other masked programmed logic devices, configuration devices, development software, and other tools and intellectual-property cores. Altera was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.

ALTR Top Compensated Officers

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Preside...
Age: 45
Total Annual Compensation: $700.0K
Acting Chief Financial Officer, Vice Presiden...
Total Annual Compensation: $240.0K
Senior Vice President of Research & Developme...
Age: 61
Total Annual Compensation: $375.0K
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Age: 60
Total Annual Compensation: $350.0K
Senior Vice President of Altera Penang and Ge...
Age: 48
Total Annual Compensation: $350.0K
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2008.

Key developments for Altera Corp. (ALTR)

Altera Signs Distribution Agreement with Newark

Newark Corporation has signed a franchise agreement with Altera Corp. to supply their FPGA and CPLD devices, the latest development kits and the Quartus(R) II design software in North America. This agreement follows recent signings with Premier Farnell for its European and Asia Pacific regions, who have executed multi-channel marketing plans leveraging local sales support and inventory on Altera's latest products.

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Michael Nevens Joins Altera Corp.'s Board of Directors

Altera Corp. announced that Michael Nevens has joined the company's board of directors. Mr. Nevens spent 22 years at McKinsey & Company in various management positions including managing partner of the Global Technology Practice.

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