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Top Ranked Momentum Stocks to Buy for May 22nd

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Here are three stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, May 22nd:

American International Group, Inc. (AIG - Free Report) : This provider of insurance products has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 12.7% over the last 60 days.

American International Group, Inc. Price and Consensus

American International’s shares gained 13.4% over the last one month against the S&P 500’s fall of 1.8%. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

American International Group, Inc. Price

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL - Free Report) : This provider of life insurance products and services has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 3.4% over the last 60 days.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company Price and Consensus

American Equity’s shares gained 6.2% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of B.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company Price

Arcosa, Inc. (ACA - Free Report) :This manufacturer of infrastructure-related products has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 9.6% over the last 60 days.

Arcosa, Inc. Price and Consensus

Arcosa’s shares gained 17.1% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of B.

Arcosa, 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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