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Is This 1 Momentum Stock a Screaming Buy Right Now?
Momentum investors, who live by the saying "the trend is your friend," are most interested in taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Utilizing one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, among other factors, the Momentum Style Score can help determine favorable times to buy high-momentum stocks.
Leidos (LDOS)
Founded in 1969, Delaware-based Leidos Holdings, Inc. is a global science and technology leader that serves the defense, intelligence, civil and health markets. Its core capabilities include providing solutions in the fields of cybersecurity; data analytics; enterprise IT modernization; operations and logistics; sensors, collection and phenomenology; software development; and systems engineering.
LDOS boasts a Momentum Style Score of B and VGM Score of A, and holds a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) rating. Shares of Leidos has seen some interesting price action recently; the stock is up 2.1% over the past one week and up 14% over the past four weeks. And in the last one-year period, LDOS has gained 7%. As for the stock's trading volume, 1,291,315.88 shares on average were traded over the last 20 days.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company's earnings. For LDOS, four analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.16 to $10.65 per share for 2025. LDOS boasts an average earnings surprise of 23.7%.
LDOS should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.
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