This week, these five stocks have the best ratings in Operating Margin Growth, one of the eight Fundamental Categories on .
United Fire Group (NASDAQ:) writes property, casualty, and life insurances. UFCS also gets A’s in Earnings Momentum, Analyst Earnings Revisions, and Earnings Surprises. Shares of the company are up 13.5% from the first of the year. .
Western Alliance Bancorp. (NYSE:) provides a range of banking and related services to businesses, professional firms, real estate developers and investors, local nonprofit organizations, high net worth individuals, and consumers. WAL also gets A’s in Earnings Growth and Analyst Earnings Revisions. Since January 1, WAL has jumped 55.9%. This is better than the S&P 500, which has seen a 16.6% increase over the same period. .
Symmetricom (NASDAQ:) generates, distributes and applies precise time for the communications, aerospace/defense, IT infrastructure and metrology industries. SYMM also gets an A in Earnings Surprises. The price of SYMM has increased 24.9% since January 1.
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Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ:) designs and develops semiconductor-based, high-performance interconnect products. MLNX also gets A’s in Earnings Growth, Earnings Momentum, Analyst Earnings Revisions, Earnings Surprises, and Sales Growth. The price of MLNX is up 212.1% since the first of the year. .
Cray (NASDAQ:) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services high performance computing systems, commonly known as supercomputers. CRAY gets A’s in Earnings Momentum, Analyst Earnings Revisions, Earnings Surprises, Equity, Cash Flow, and Sales Growth as well. Since January 1, CRAY has jumped 84.5%. The stock’s current trailing PE Ratio is 2.6. .
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