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Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2017: The Middleby Corporation(MIDD)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Middleby Corp (NASDAQ: MIDD) is expected to post its quarterly earnings at $0.84 per share on revenue of $515.56 million.

  Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK) is estimated to post its quarterly earnings at $0.70 per share on revenue of $360.22 million.

Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2017: Molex Incorporated(MOLX)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Shauna O'Brien]

  Shares of electronic connector maker Molex Incorporated (MOLX) skyrocketed on Monday morning after reports that the company will be acquired by Koch Industries.

  Koch Industries has agreed to acquire Molex for a total of $7.2 billion. This deal will include all outstanding shares of the company’s Common Stock, Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock for $38.50 per share.

  The deal has been approved by the board of directors of both companies. Molex will continue to maintain its current management team and its current headquarters in Lisle, IL.

  Molex shares were up $9.15, or 31.17%, during Monday morning trading. The stock is up 41% YTD.

Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2017: JinkoSolar Holding Company Limited(JKS)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lisa Levin]

  JinkoSolar Holding Co (NYSE: JKS) dropped 9.88% to $16.87 after the company announced the offering of 3,500,000 American Depositary Shares.

  Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co (NASDAQ: FFHL) dropped 9.66% to $1.30. Fuwei Films' trailing-twelve-month ROE is -10.85%.

• [By Paul Ausick]

  It is not often that a secondary stock offering sends a company��s shares higher, but we are seeing that very phenomenon Friday morning. Chinese solar PV maker JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) and stock image company Shutterstock Inc. (NASDAQ: SSTK) both priced secondary offerings this morning and shares in both companies have risen sharply.

• [By Paul Ausick]

  But the real news is the near vertical trajectory in share prices for the two stocks. This could be another manifestation of the market��s hunger for some momentum plays, as we noted earlier this morning the bump to share prices for both JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) and Shutterstock Inc. (NASDAQ: SSTK), both of which held secondary share sales this morning.

Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2017: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.(MRVL)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Peter Graham]

  The Q2 2017 earnings report for mid cap fabless semiconductor stock Marvell Technology Group Ltd (NASDAQ: MRVL) is scheduled for before the market opens on Tuesday (September 6th). We had Marvell Technology Group�in our SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity (SCN EO) portfolio back in 2013 because�its fundamental and technical context appeared very attractive at the time and the company's products also drive Samsung's family of mobile devices. Our SCN EO newsletter noted in May 2013:

• [By Lisa Levin]

  Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) shares shot up 10 percent to $14.70 after the company reported upbeat Q3 results and announced a $1 billion share buyback.

• [By Shauna O'Brien]

  On Tuesday, JP Morgan announced that it has raised its rating on Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) .

  The firm has upgraded MRVL from “Neutral” to “Overweight,” and has given the company a $16 price target. This price target suggests a 19% upside from the stock’s current price of $12.91.

  Marvell Technology shares were up 37, or 2.94%, during Tuesday morning trading. The stock is up 78% YTD.

Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2017: Yandex N.V.(YNDX)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lee Jackson]

  Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ: YNDX) is the Google of Russia. It was very bold on the growing marketplace there, and its beta tests of a new back end have been very positive and should be rolled out soon. Deutsche Bank has a $38 price target, and the consensus is $40, in U.S. dollars.

• [By Monica Gerson]

  
  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 Monday’s regular session.

  Pier 1 Imports Inc (NYSE: PIR) Dec16 5.0 Puts Sweep: 1191 @ ASK $0.80: 1354 traded vs 102 OI: $5.32 Ref Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA) Jul16 9.5 Puts Sweep: 1494 @ ASK $0.13: 14k traded vs 6682 OI: $10.09 Ref Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: SRPT) Jul16 10.0 Puts: 3536 @ ASK $0.50: 5506 traded vs 54k OI: Earnings 8/4 $22.50 Ref Tableau Software Inc (NYSE: DATA) Jul16 47.5 Puts Sweep: 837 @ ASK $0.30: 995 traded vs 37 OI: Earnings 8/3 $50.60 Ref Yandex NV (NASDAQ: YNDX) Aug16 18.0 Puts Sweep: 532 @ ASK $0.30: 2143 traded vs 78 OI: Earnings 7/28 Before Open $22.02 Ref Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (NYSE: WWW) Aug16 22.5 Puts: 719 @ ASK $1.35: 1032 traded vs 0 OI: Earnings 7/19 $22.22 Ref Conn's Inc (NASDAQ: CONN) Jan17 5.0 Puts Sweep: 605 @ ASK $0.85: 1355 traded vs 3132 OI: $7.16 Ref

  Posted-In: Huge Put PurchasesNews Options Markets

really good stocks to invest in

A few days ago, The Street Sweeper wrote a short thesis on Teladoc (NYSE:TDOC), in his article titled "Trump's Obamacare Promise: Teladoc's Code Blue?" His short thesis had several relevant arguments, including:

Obamacare was previously said to be a positive catalyst for Teladoc. If that is so, then Trump winning the election needs to be seen as a negative, since Trump is certain to scale back Obamacare. Any scale back in healthcare availability can reduce the target market for Teladoc. Teladoc operates under an extremely competitive market where high margins are unlikely to be obtained. As so, Teladoc burns cash hand over fist (~$15 million per quarter) and operates at a consistent loss. Teladoc's business model might be structurally unsound and it faces customer complaints.

By itself, The Street Sweeper already made a convincing argument for selling short Teladoc. This led me to do my own due diligence on the stock. What I present below is the result of that due diligence.

really good stocks to invest in: Integrated Device Technology, Inc.(IDTI)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Gerson]

  
  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 Monday's regular session.

  Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) Jan17 22.0 Calls: 20500 @ ASK $1.20: 22k traded vs 2041 OI: Earnings 7/26 After Close $17.63 Ref Antero Resources Corp (NYSE: AR) Aug16 25.0 Calls: 7500 @ ASK $2.30: 11k traded vs 560 OI: Earnings 8/3 $26.06 Ref Mobileye NV (NYSE: MBLY) Fri 7/22 52.0 Calls (Wkly) Sweep: 1000 @ ASK $0.50: 1003 traded vs 0 OI: Earnings 8/4 $48.50 Ref Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE: CLF) 7/29 8.0 Calls (Wkly) Sweep: 1000 @ ASK $0.15: 1000 traded vs 1 OI: Earnings 7/28 Before Open $6.83 Ref Integrated Device Technology Inc (NASDAQ: IDTI) Nov16 22.0 Calls Sweep: 1520 @ ASK $1.85: 1520 traded vs 67 OI: Earnings 8/1 $20.64 Ref Fortuna Silver Mines Inc (NYSE: FSM) Aug16 7.5 Calls: 2496 @ ASK $1.65: 2502 traded vs 162 OI: Earnings 8/5 $8.81 Ref Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ: MPEL) 7/29 13.0 Calls (Wkly): 4300 @ ASK $0.30: 7000 traded vs 10 OI: Earnings 8/4 $12.22 Ref

  Posted-In: Huge Call PurchasesNews Options Markets

really good stocks to invest in: Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated(COKE)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Douglas A. McIntyre]

  Coca-Cola Bottling Co. (NYSE: COKE) had a revenue increase to $2.3 billion in its most recent�fiscal year, from $1.7 billion in the previous one. It is moving into Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and West Virginia, which almost certainly will require capital. Its net sales rose 37% in the most recent quarter to $840 million. Management stated this was because of “Organic growth in the legacy territories as well as territory expansion through the acquisition of several new distribution territories from Coca-Cola led to the solid performance.” The current dividend is $1, or 0.66%.

really good stocks to invest in: iShares MSCI All Peru Capped ETF (EPU)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Andrew Efimoff] Related Some Positive Indexing News For A Frontier Markets ETF Why The Frontier Markets ETF Slumped Last Year Status Quo Decisions Would Bode Well For PAK ETF (Seeking Alpha) Related EPU Peru ETF Confronts Politics Commodities Call For The Colombia ETF Gra帽a Y Montero May Have Peaked In 2016 (Seeking Alpha) Gainers Pakistan: Global XMSCI Pakistan ETF (NYSE: PAK) is up 5.67 percent after receiving MSCI's Emerging Markets Index approval. Peru: iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index Fund(NYSE: EPU) is up 2.15 percent after Kuzynski won Peru's nail-biting election. Philippines: iShares MSCI Philippines Investable(NYSE: EPHE) is up 2.21 percent after Macquarie Research said President Elect Rodrigo Duterte would lift the Pilipino property market. India: iShares MSCI India ETF (NYSE: INDA) is up 1.96 percent after India's government relaxed regulation, making it easier for domestic airlines to fly overseas.

  Related Link: Some Positive Indexing News For A Frontier Markets ETF

• [By Todd Shriber, ETF Professor]

  ARGT, the lone exchange traded fund dedicated to Argentine equities, is up 19.6 percent year-to-date. That is good for the second-best showing among Latin America single-country ETFs, trailing only the iShares MSCI Capped Peru Index Fund (NYSE: EPU).

really good stocks to invest in: Compass Minerals Intl Inc(CMP)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE: CMP) is projected to post its quarterly earnings at $1.33 per share on revenue of $347.03 million.

  MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI) is estimated to post its quarterly earnings at $0.33 per share on revenue of $177.19 million.

really good stocks to invest in: PulteGroup, Inc.(PHM)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By CNNMoney Staff]

  Housing stocks were among the biggest winners, with shares of Pulte Group (PHM), DR Horton (DHI), and Lennar (LEN) all up sharply.

  Traders on StockTwits said investors may be betting on the group as Summers' decision to drop out from the Fed chief race could be good for the housing market. With Treasury yields falling, the hope is that mortgages rates might do the same.

• [By Peter Graham]

  A long term performance chart shows KB Home underperforming large cap D.R. Horton, Inc (NYSE: DHI) and mid caps�Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN) and PulteGroup, Inc (NYSE: PHM) with much of the outperformance of homebuilder stocks coming earlier in the recovery with shares moving sideways since then:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Lee offers 22 stocks that could benefit from the correlation trade: Western Digital (WDC), Xerox (XRX), First Solar, Ford Motor, Best Buy (BBY), PulteGroup (PHM), AutoNation (AN), Textron (TXT), Jacobs Engineering Group (JEC), Mosaic, BB&T (BBT), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB),�Loews (L), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), Comerica (CMA), Leucadia National (LUK), Zions Bancorp (ZION), Valero Energy (VLO), Marathon Oil, Cardinal Health (CAH), and Pepco Holdings (POM).

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  KB Home (KBH) doesn’t report earnings until after the close, but the market isn’t taking any chances. Its shares–as well as those of homebuilders like PulteGroup (PHM) and DR Horton (DHI)–are getting whacked today following disappointing housing-starts data, and Lennar’s (LEN) below-consensus order growth.

really good stocks to invest in: Diebold, Incorporated(DBD)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By U.S. News]

  In at least one Texas bank and one Ohio credit union, 3D video banking is currently undergoing testing, according to TheFinancialBrand.com, a website for bank and credit union marketing executives. Three-dimensional video banking is similar to a consumer video conference with a bank representative –- only in this case, the executive looks like a living, breathing person sitting across from you. Thanks to theater surround sound, the representative also sounds as if they're in the same room. And since the consumer is interacting with a real person and not an automated hologram, the experience apparently isn't much different than the real thing. Banking and managing money isn't what it used to be. The 1970s and 1980s brought us the rise of the ATM. Consumers became acquainted with online banking during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The 2010s are shaping up as the era of mobile banking. That was underscored Sept. 10-11 in New York City when Mitek Systems Inc. (MITK), a San Diego-based technology company, debuted its Mobile Photo Account Opening product at Finovate, a trade show where banking tech products are often unveiled. The product allows consumers to open a bank account within 60 seconds. If you have your bank's app, you can use your smartphone's camera to take a photo of the front and back of your driver's license, and presto, your new checking, savings or credit card account is open. Here's a look at other financial products and services personal financial experts think we'll be using in the future. Within 10 years. "The economic payments system will begin to 'know us,' either through biometrics, optical sensor or facial recognition," says Joshua Siegel, managing principal of StoneCastle Partners, a New York-based asset management firm that invests in banks. That's already happening to some extent with smartphones –- the new Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5S, for example, uses fingerprint scanning to unlock the phone. Meanwhile, some fi