Now that the holiday shopping season is winding down, the Morgan Stanley sales team has come up with a new shopping list of small- and mid-cap (SMID) stocks for traders to buy in the final days of 2016.
To Buy
Here’s a rundown of all the companies on Morgan Stanley’s buy list.
- Acushnet Holdings Corp GOLF 0.69%.
- Alaska Air Group, Inc. ALK 0.89%.
- Align Technology, Inc. ALGN 0.78%.
- Alps Electric Co Ltd (ADR) APELY.
- Auto Nation, Inc. AN 1.55%.
- Blue Buffalo Pet Products Inc BUFF 1.45%.
- DBV Technologies SA – ADR DBVT 0.23%.
- Duke Realty Corp DRE 0.3%.
- Fairmount Santrol Holdings Inc FMSA 1.25%.
- Fortinet Inc FTNT 0.58%.
- Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. (ADR) GGAL 3.68%.
- Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc HLX 2.37%.
- Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. HRC 1.96%.
- Hubbell Incorporated HUBB 0.22%.
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. STLD 3.21%.
- Interpublic Group of Companies Inc IPG 2.34%.
- Mallinkrodt PLC MNK 2.01%.
- Marks and Spencer Group Plc (ADR) MAKSY 0.06%.
- Panera Bread Co PNRA 0.21%.
- Pandora Media Inc P 4.15%.
- Parsley Energy Inc PE 1.02%.
- Patheon NV PTHN 0.41%.
- Quantenna Communications Inc QTNA 2.67%.
- Sabre Corp SABR 0.61%.
- Splunk Inc SPLK 2.95%.
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. STLD 3.21%.
- TETRA Technologies, Inc. TTI 1.77%.
- Travelport Worldwide Ltd TVPT 0.07%.
- United States Steel Corporation X 1.88%.
- Voya Financial Inc VOYA 0.33%.
- Yum China Holdings Inc YUMC 3.08%.
Names To Sell
In addition to the stocks that traders should be buying, the Morgan Stanley team also came…
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