New Strong Buy Stocks for December 31st
Here are five stocks added to the Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) List today:
Baytex Energy BTE: This conventional oil and gas income trust, which is focused on maintaining its production and asset base through internal property development and delivering consistent returns to its unitholders, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 33.3% over the last 60 days.
Baytex Energy Corp Price and Consensus
Baytex Energy Corp price-consensus-chart | Baytex Energy Corp Quote
BHP Group Limited BHP: This mining company, which is one of the world's largest with operations spanning Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Peru, and the United States, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 13% over the last 60 day.
BHP Group Limited Sponsored ADR Price and Consensus
BHP Group Limited Sponsored ADR price-consensus-chart | BHP Group Limited Sponsored ADR Quote
Samsara Inc. IOT: This company, which provides solutions which connects physical operations data to its connected operations cloud principally in the United States and internationally, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 8.5% over the last 60 days.
Gitlab GTLB: This company, which is a leading provider of a DevSecOps platform that brings together development teams, IT operations teams, and security teams to build better and more secure software at a faster rate, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 7.2% over the last 60 days.
Cummins CMI: This company, which is a leading global designer, manufacturer and distributor of diesel and natural gas engines and powertrain-related component products, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 6.7% over the last 60 days.
You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
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This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com).
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