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Since spinning off from United Technologies a year ago, Otis Worldwide (NYSE:OTIS) has been one of the hottest industrial stocks.

Speaking of slow crawlers, bringing up the rear are Nike, Merck, and Procter & Gamble. But as we know, the Dow derby is a marathon rather than a sprint, so the laggards could very well turn into leaders after the second-half kickoff.

Throughout stock market history there have been few occasions when the words ‘hot’ and ‘banks’ go together, but this is one of those times.

Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) stock is up 38% this year and trading at a record high. There may be plenty more where that came from.

United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) and its airline peers have been among the most popular economic recovery plays.

One of the first names to come up on an alphabetical listing of NYSE American companies, Acme United (NYSEAMERICAN:ACU) is also one of the last stocks on investors’ radar.

The furniture industry has been one of the most interesting beneficiaries of the pandemic economy and Virginia-based Hooker Furniture (NASDAQ:HOFT) is no exception.

In the world of professional sports, defense often wins championships. In stock investing, defensive companies typically don’t produce championship caliber returns.Here are three of those so-called defensive names that are up big this year—and may stil…

Here we look at three large-cap stocks that have exhibited a high net profit margin over the trailing 12-month period. They are each likely to do the same for the next 12 months pushing their stock price higher.

In technical analysis, classic chart patterns have varying degrees of success in predicting where a stock is headed. Here we highlight three stocks that have recently formed bullish chart patterns—and have underlying catalysts that can help the pattern…