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Top Ranked Momentum Stocks to Buy for December 18th

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Here are three stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, December 18th:

Splunk Inc. : This software solutions provider has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 7.3% over the last 60 days.

Splunk Inc. Price and Consensus

Splunk Inc. Price and Consensus

Splunk Inc. price-consensus-chart | Splunk Inc. Quote

Splunk’s shares gained 14.5% over the last one month in contrast with the S&P 500’s decrease of 3.6%. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

KCAP Financial, Inc. : This business development company that specializes in investments has a Zacks Rank #2 and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 7.1% over the last 60 days.

KCAP Financial’s shares gained 3% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of B.

COUPA SOFTWARE : This cloud-based spend management platform provider has a Zacks Rank #2 and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 42.8% over the last 60 days.

COUPA SOFTWARE’s shares gained 9.62% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of B.

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

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