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Top Ranked Momentum Stocks to Buy for May 8th

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Here are three stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, May 8th:

Compugen Ltd. (CGEN - Free Report) : This company that is engaged inresearch, development, and commercialization of therapeutic and product candidates has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 6.7% over the last 60 days.

Compugen Ltd Price and Consensus

Compugen's shares gained 77.9% over the last one month compared to S&P 500’s rise of 9.7%. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

Compugen Ltd Price

Chegg, Inc. (CHGG - Free Report) : This operator of direct-to-student learning platform has a Zacks Rank #1 and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 12% over the last 60 days.

Chegg Inc Price and Consensus

Chegg’s shares gained more than 76.5% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

Chegg Inc Price

GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. : This molecular diagnostics company has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 23.2% over the last 60 days.

GenMark Diagnostics Inc Price and Consensus

GenMark's shares gained more than 100% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

GenMark Diagnostics Inc Price

See the full list of top ranked stocks here

Learn more about the Momentum score and how it is calculated here.

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