San Francisco, CA, based Investment company Dodge & Cox buys Express Scripts Holding Co, Suncor Energy Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Juniper Networks Inc, UBS Group AG, Cemex SAB de CV, News Corp, America Movil SAB de CV, sells Royal Dutch Shell PLC, NetApp Inc, Adient PLC, Symantec Corp, Unilever PLC during the 3-months ended 2017-03-31, according to the most recent filings of the investment company, Dodge & Cox. As of 2017-03-31, Dodge & Cox owns 179 stocks with a total value of $117.7 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells.
Added Positions: ESRX, SU, NVS, BMY, JNPR, UBS, AZN, CX, MDT, GOOG, Reduced Positions: SLB, RDS.A, HPQ, NTAP, BK, ADNT, SYMC, DVMT, BHI, GLW, Sold Out: HES, LOGM, LOW, MS,
For the details of Dodge & Cox’s stock buys and sells, go to www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?GuruName=Dodge+%26+Cox
These are the top 5 holdings of Dodge & CoxBank of America Corporation (BAC) – 185,448,539 shares, 3.72% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.47%Wells Fargo & Co (WFC) – 71,190,652 shares, 3.37% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 0.48%Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW) – 95,552,125 shares, 3.31% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.11%Capital One Financial Corp (COF) – 44,582,892 shares, 3.28% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.39%Novartis AG (NVS) – 50,585,790 shares, 3.19% of the total portfolio. Shares added by 10.65%Added: Express Scripts Holding Co (ESRX)
Dodge & Cox added to their holdings in Express Scripts Holding Co by 35.99%. Their purchase prices were between $63.84 and $73.16, with an estimated average price of $68.81. The stock is now traded at around $62.47. The impact to their portfolio due to this purchase was 0.43%. Their holdings were 28,800,496 shares as of 2017-03-31.
Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2021: Aaron's, Inc.(AAN)
Aarons, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of furniture, consumer electronics, computers, appliances, and household accessories in the United States and Canada. It operates through six segments: Sales and Lease Ownership, Progressive, HomeSmart, DAMI, Franchise, and Manufacturing. The company engages in the lease ownership and retail sale of various products, such as televisions, computers, tablets, mobile phones, living room, dining room and bedroom furniture, mattresses, washers, dryers, and refrigerators. It offers products of various brands, such as Samsung, Frigidaire, Hewlett-Packard, LG, Whirlpool, Simmons, Philips, JVC, Sharp, and Magnavox. As of February 29, 2016, the company operated approximately 2,100 company-operated and franchised stores in 47 states and Canada; and provided lease-purchase solutions through approximately 16,000 retail locations in 46 states, as well as various second-look financing programs through approximately 1,400 locations. Aarons, Inc. was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2021: Amtech Systems Inc.(ASYS)
Amtech Systems, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, assembly, sale, and installation of capital equipment and related consumables used in the manufacture of wafers, primarily for the solar and semiconductor industries. The company produces and sells horizontal diffusion furnaces used for various steps in the solar and semiconductor manufacturing processes, including diffusion, phosphorus tetrachloride doping, boron tribromide, low-pressure chemical vapor deposition, oxidation, and annealing; solar automation equipment, including mass wafer transfer systems, sorters, long-boat transfer systems, load station elevators, buffers, and conveyers; phosphorus silicate glass dry etch process equipment; plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition products, which applies an anti-reflective coating to solar wafers; semiconductor automation products; and small batch vertical furnaces. It also offers thermal processing systems, including related automation, parts, and s ervices to the solar/photovoltaic, semiconductor, silicon wafer, and microelectromechanical industries. In addition, the company manufactures and supplies polishing supplies that comprise wafer carriers, polishing templates, and double-sided polishing and lapping machines to the fabricators of light emitting diodes, optics, quartz, ceramics, and metal parts, as well as to manufacturers of medical equipment components and computer hard disks under the PR Hoffman brand name. Amtech Systems, Inc. markets its products primarily through sales personnel, as well as through a network of domestic and international independent sales representatives and distributors primarily in China, Taiwan, the United States, and Europe. The company was formerly known as Quartz Engineering & Materials, Inc. and changed its name to Amtech Systems, Inc. in 1987. Amtech Systems, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.
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SUMITOMO HEAVY/ADR (NASDAQ: ASYS) and Amtech Systems (NASDAQ:ASYS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
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The Trade Desk, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTD) jumped 36.2 percent to $71.82 after the company reported upbeat results for its first quarter. The company also issued strong second-quarter and FY18 sales guidance.
WideOpenWest, Inc. (NYSE: WOW) jumped 30.4 percent to $8.80 after the company reported Q1 results.
MoSys, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOSY) shares surged 28.6 percent to $1.9541 after the company reported better-than-expected Q1 results and issued strong Q2 forecast.
Boxlight Corporation (NASDAQ: BOXL) gained 24 percent to $6.39.
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKCA) shares gained 19.1 percent to $24.60. Akcea Therapeutics, an affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: IONS) announced that the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee, which met to discuss the safety and efficacy of subcutaneously injected volanesoren solution for patients with familial chylomicronemia syndrome, voted 12-8 to support its approval.
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: UEPS) shares rose 17 percent to $10.31 after reporting Q3 results.
ArcBest Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCB) gained 16.8 percent to $43.1457 after reporting upbeat quarterly earnings.
Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASYS) rose 16.2 percent to $8.60. Amtech posted Q2 earnings of $0.19 per share on sales of $32.783 million.
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Noodles & Company (NASDAQ: NDLS) shares rose 10.9 percent to $8.65 following Q1 results.
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ValuEngine cut shares of Amtech Systems (NASDAQ:ASYS) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research note published on Wednesday morning.
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Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2021: ServiceNow, Inc.(NOW)
ServiceNow is a leading provider of enterprise cloud computing solutions that define, structure, manage and automate services across the global enterprise. Our mission is to help the modern enterprise operate faster and be more scalable by applying a service-oriented lens to the activities, tasks and processes that comprise day-to-day work life. Our solutions, and the custom solutions built by our customers and partners, all of which are delivered through our highly flexible and scalable platform, are empowering enterprises to change the way people work.
In 2004, ServiceNow pioneered the cloud-based delivery of information technology (IT) service management applications that helped enterprises define and structure services and workflows, provide an intuitive user experience and knowledge base, implement service delivery, establish service level agreements and provide analytics. Advisors’ Opinion:
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Shares ofServiceNow(NYSE:NOW)climbed last month after the cloud-based IT solutions provider delivered another blowout earnings report. According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the stock finished January up 24%.
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The company has a current ratio of 1.26, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64. The stock has a market capitalization of $33.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -209.54, a P/E/G ratio of 11.11 and a beta of 1.17.
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Top Tech Stocks To Buy For 2021: Fortinet, Inc.(FTNT)
Fortinet, Inc. provides cyber security solutions for enterprises, service providers, and government organizations worldwide. The company offers FortiGate physical and virtual appliances products that provide various security and networking functions, including firewall, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, virtual private network, application control, Web filtering, anti-spam, and wide area network acceleration; FortiManager product family to provide a central management solution for FortiGate products comprising software updates, configuration, policy settings, and security updates; and the FortiAnalyzer product family, which provides a single point of network log data collection. It also offers FortiAP secure wireless access points; FortiWeb, a Web application firewall; FortiMail email security; FortiDB database security appliances; FortiClient, an endpoint security software; and FortiSwitch secure switch connectivity products. In addition, the company provides FortiSandbox advanced threat protection solutions; and FortiDDos and FortiDB database security appliances. Further, it offers security subscription, technical support, training, and professional services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
