Top 5 High Tech Stocks To Own Right Now

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Bitcoin continued an impressive rally on Tuesday as prices blew past the $9,000 mark overnight. Trading volume surged as high as $8.9 billion for first time since April 12. At the same time, the total market value of all cryptocurrencies surged past the $400 billion mark for the first time since early March.

Here are the stories you can't miss in cryptocurrencies on Tuesday, April 24.

Financial Firms Considering Coins

According to a recent survey from Thomson Reuters, one in five financial services firms are "really interested and actively exploring" launching cryptocurrency trading operations in 2018. Of those considering launching crypto trading this year, 70% of firms plan to do so in the next three to six months, while 22% want to start within the next six to 12 months. "Cryptocurrency is still a relatively small part of the trading market, but this survey indicates this niche segment is starting to enter the mainstream of the financial services industry. This is a major change from a year ago," said Thomson Reuters Co-Head of Trading Neil Penney.

Top 5 High Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: Atlantic Coast Federal Corporation(ACFC)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ethan Ryder]

  Atlantic Coast Financial (NASDAQ: ACFC) and People’s United Financial (NASDAQ:PBCT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and dividends.

Top 5 High Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: Evoke Pharma, Inc.(EVOK)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Stephan Byrd]

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Top 5 High Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: Nobilis Health Corp.(HLTH)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Logan Wallace]

  Shares of Nobilis Health (NYSEAMERICAN:HLTH) (TSE:NHC) traded down 15.6% during mid-day trading on Tuesday following a dissappointing earnings announcement. The company traded as low as $1.35 and last traded at $1.35. 1,239,040 shares were traded during mid-day trading, an increase of 331% from the average session volume of 287,252 shares. The stock had previously closed at $1.60.

Top 5 High Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: Intersil Corporation(ISIL)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Logan Wallace]

  Media stories about Intersil (NASDAQ:ISIL) have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Intersil earned a media sentiment score of 0.05 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave headlines about the semiconductor company an impact score of 46.0713234548749 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next several days.

Top 5 High Tech Stocks To Own Right Now: Brady Corporation(BRC)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Stephan Byrd]

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• [By Lisa Levin] Companies Reporting Before The Bell Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.74 per share on revenue of $8.73 billion. McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) is expected to report quarterly earnings at $3.56 per share on revenue of $51.25 billion. Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $1.39 per share on revenue of $8.00 billion. Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.45 per share on revenue of $2.39 billion. Brady Corporation (NYSE: BRC) is expected to report quarterly earnings at $0.49 per share on revenue of $291.47 million. Sanderson Farms, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAFM) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $2.2 per share on revenue of $841.75 million. The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $1.16 per share on revenue of $6.86 billion. Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY) is expected to report quarterly earnings at $1.61 per share on revenue of $8.05 billion. 58.com Inc. (NYSE: WUBA) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.21 per share on revenue of $372.49 million. Luxoft Holding, Inc. (NYSE: LXFT) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $0.59 per share on revenue of $228.53 million. The Toro Company (NYSE: TTC) is expected to report quarterly earnings at $1.21 per share on revenue of $916.73 million. StealthGas Inc. (NASDAQ: GASS) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.06 per share on revenue of $37.75 million. Stage Stores, Inc. (NYSE: SSI) is estimated to report earnings for its first quarter. Thermon Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: THR) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.2 per share on revenue of $96.24 million. Tuniu Corporation (NASDAQ: TOUR) is estimated to report quarterly loss at $0.03 per share on revenue of $76.72 million.

   

• [By Max Byerly]

  Brady (NYSE: BRC) and PlayAGS (NYSE:AGS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

• [By Stephan Byrd]

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