Dell Stock In Sweet Spot, Leads 20 Hot Prospects Onto Various Best Stock Screens

IBD stock screens are regularly updated to add new stocks to watch, as well as weed out those that have started to show weakness. In the tables below, you’ll see which stocks like Dell Technologies (DELL) have been added to or removed from lists like the IBD 50, IBD Big Cap 20 and Stock Spotlight.

Dell stock shot to an all-time high 169.90 Friday. That gain got whittled down to a 0.6% rise though amid the market retreat. There were other winning stocks too. Among them is natural gas exploration and development company** Oneok** (OKE), which rose about 1% and earned a spot on the IBD 50.

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Meanwhile, Phibro Animal Health (PAHC) earned its way into the Stock Spotlight. It broke out of a cup base and soared 22% on Feb. 5. Kinder Morgan (KMI), a natural gas transport firm, rose onto two best stock lists, the IBD 50 and Big Cap 20. Chip equipment maker Lam Research (LRCX), an artificial intelligence play, also qualified for both the IBD 50 and Big Cap 20.

The screens are based on The IBD Methodology. This strategy looks for stocks displaying the common traits typically shared by the best-performing stocks in the early stages of their big price moves.

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Dell Moves Up The Ladder As Rival Plunges Amid Accusation

On Friday, Dell rival Super Micro Computer got hit was accusations that employees illegally sold advanced Nvidia (NVDA)-chip powered gear to China. A company cofounder is among those accused. Dell is a leading maker of computers used in data centers. Last quarter Dell reported a 45% leap in earnings to $3.89 per share on a 39% hike in revenue to $33.4 billion. Supermicro competes in that sector too. But when the accusation emerged, its stock tanked 33.3% Friday.

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Stock Spotlight: Dell Among 6 Spotlight Stocks

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell has an 84 Composite Rating out of 99. And its 94 EPS Rating puts it in the top 6% of all companies for recent and long-term profit growth. This daily stock list seeks out the best stocks to buy and watch with top fundamentals that are getting ready to break out. Use it to glean emerging industry and sector trends in the market.

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