Exclusive Access: Over 170 Stocks to Avoid or Short Today

It’s tempting to buy into stocks that are beating the market by a huge market. But watch out for these “high-beta bombs.” [Turn Your Images On]( High-Beta Bombs [Exclusive Access: Over 170 Stocks to Avoid or Short Today]( [Adam O’Dell, CMT, Chief Investment Strategist]( [Turn Your Images On] We’re all tempted by stocks that seem to soar above the market. “High-beta” stocks tend to climb at a faster rate than the broad market, when the broad market is already climbing. But there are plenty of “high-beta bombs” to avoid on any given day. Watch out for this dangerous combination before adding a stock to your portfolio in hopes of huge gains: - A market cap of less than $2 billion (“small”). - A 3-year beta ranked in the top 30% of all stocks (“high-beta”). - A 1-year sales growth rate ranked in the top 30% of all stocks (“high-growth”). - Negative earnings-per-share for each of the last five quarters (“unprofitable”). [Click here to see 170 “high-beta bombs” you should avoid or short in October.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- FROM OUR PARTNERS [The 5G Stock That Practically NOBODY Knows About... YET]( Its partners include AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. It owns 79 patents. And analysts say it has "home-run potential." [Get the details on this unknown stock now...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Green Zone Stock [Is Alphabet’s Stock Worth the Cost of Entry?]( [By Charles Sizemore, Research Analyst]( It’s been a year for tech. With much of the brick-and-mortar economy either shut down or suffering from reduced traffic, people use the internet for all their shopping and entertainment needs. The pandemic has been a veritable windfall for the likes of Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) and its peers. And you know a company dominates its industry when its name becomes a verb. We don’t “search the internet for something.” We “Google it.” Precious few companies can boast that level of dominance. But does that make Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL) a solid company to invest in? [Read about where GOOGL lands within our Green Zone Rating system to see if it’s a buy.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- FROM OUR PARTNERS [50 Stocks, Ranked from Best to Worst]( Big companies are about to get bigger. Some small companies are expected to hit a growth spurt. And a few long-time blue-chip stocks are nearing extinction. For a comprehensive list of 50 stocks that are clear buys and sells, [go here](. --------------------------------------------------------------- 2011: Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., which revolutionized the computer, music and mobile communications industries, dies at age 56 of complications from pancreatic cancer. 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