How would you like a basketball center who’s as quick as a point guard, can handle the ball and run plays just as well? IBD’s Big Cap Leaders Screen of the Day offers stocks with a similar combination of size, quality, institutional confidence and really good growth. Facebook (FB), Starbucks (SBUX) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) are among the big, strong companies that should be on investors’ watch lists, especially given their hefty annual
A flash in the pan is exciting, but great stocks tend to have a great track record of earnings and sales. Today’s Screen of the Day is Top Fundamentals, that is, companies with three-year EPS and sales growth rates of at least 25%. Below, we’ll look at four tech stocks with stellar fundamentals: Apple (AAPL) supplier Avago Technologies (AVGO), Facebook (FB), Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN). Avago Technologies Buying
FireEye (FEYE) took a body blow Monday on Wall Street, with one analyst positing that the network securer wouldn’t survive stout competition from Cisco Systems (CSCO), Check Point Software and Palo Alto Networks. Together, Cisco, Check Point (CHKP), Palo Alto (PANW) and privately-held Mandiant hold 48% of the firewall market and use their own “sandbox” technology, Piper Jaffray analyst Andrew Nowinski wrote in a research report. Nowinski