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Top Ranked Momentum Stocks to Buy for February 25th

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Here are three stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, February 25th:

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL - Free Report) : This provider of life insurance products and services has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 21.2% over the last 60 days.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company Price and Consensus

American Equity Investment's shares gained 14.6% over the last one month compared to S&P 500’s fall of 0.5%. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company Price

BlackRock, Inc. (BLK - Free Report) : This provider of investment management services has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 3.8% over the last 60 days.

BlackRock, Inc. Price and Consensus

BlackRock’s shares gained 0.8% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

BlackRock, Inc. Price

Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT - Free Report) : This provider of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 9.8% over the last 60 days.

Applied Materials, Inc. Price and Consensus

Applied Materials’ shares gained 3.4% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

Applied Materials, Inc. Price

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

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