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Popular smart bed company Sleep Number sells beds, mattresses, pillows and bedding related products directly to customers via 600+ retail stores, telephone order, and e-commerce. Adjustable temperature, firmness, motion sensing and automatic contouring, even snoring prevention technology are part of their luxury product catering to an aging population in the...

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Black Knight, Inc. provides integrated software, hosting, data, and analytics services for the mortgage industry. Subsidiaries include mortgage and home equity loan application platform MSP, customer account app Servicing Digital, retention and liquidation app Loss Mitigation, loan origination systems Empower and LoanCatcher, and investor/broker community...

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International SaaS and technology company Ebix offers software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial, travel and healthcare industries. It recently announced that it closed 2022 with record volumes on AnnuityNet4 (AN4) --its annuity exchange platform that handles roughly 70% of the electronic annuity transactions in the industry, integrated with...

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Home and office electronics e-tailer Newegg Commerce sells computers, parts, accessories, home video/audio, phones, wearables, digital cameras, gaming consoles and titles, smart home entertainment products, office supplies, software, digital downloads, auto, motorcycle, marine and aviation electronics, parts, tools and equipment, home improvement tools and...

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Everyone knows DISH Network. (Fun fact: the name is an acronym for DIgital Sky Highway.) Colorado-based Dish also does business through Sling TV and offers mobile service via Dish Wireless and prepaid service Boost Mobile, with plans to offer wireless internet and its own video streaming -- they do own Blockbuster. Dish TV has about 10 million paid...

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Fashion retailer Nordstrom sells brand name clothing, shoes, beauty, home goods, etc in 94 large department stores as well as 240 Nordstrom Rack outlets. It also makes ~50% sales online, via their official websites as well as flash-sales from HauteLook and curator services through Trunk Club. Technically minded investors may see some opportunity in the chart...

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Multinational biotech company Amyris manufactures and sells synthetic ingredients to the clean beauty, personal care, health and wellness, flavor and fragrance, nutrition, food and beverage markets in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. It also offers products under the Biossance, Purecane, Costa Brazil, OLIKA, and JVN brand names. Amyris also...

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Louisiana-based Lumen Technologies Inc (Quantum Fiber and CenturyLink) is one of the largest communications companies internationally. Its business segment offers cloud, IT, co-location, data and content delivery, IP, VPN, security, and other computer application services. Lumen also provides fiber optic infrastructure, data hosting and Ethernet as well as...

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Heritage brands are making a comeback, as if they ever really went away. General Motors makes Buicks, Cadillacs, Chevrolets, GMCs as well as vehicles under the Holden, Baojun, and Wuling brands. Known for being reliable, they are a go-to for automotive-dependent businesses such as daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and...

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Everyone has some trusty item made by Stanley Black & Decker in their home, whether it's a power tool, lawn product, kitchen appliance, storage, etc. Its customers also include professional end users of its equipment for repairs, construction, lawncare, automotive, manufacturing, oil and gas pipelines, aerospace engineering and many other industries. It seems to...

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Israel-based Kornit Digital produces, markets and distributes high-speed industrial inkjet printers, digital printing systems, ink, software, and related products for the apparel, home decor, and printed textile industry. The company markets itself as a more sustainable alternative to overproduced goods, allowing for on-demand production as well as personalization...

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There are lots of bullish arguments to make for solar stocks this year, including the Inflation Reduction Act and global demand, especially in Europe. California-based Sunrun designs, installs, sells and maintains residential solar panels directly to customers. Other business areas include battery storage, leasing energy services, and a "virtual power plant" with...

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Oil is one of the few sectors that analysts are still bullish on in 2023. Long arguments include catalysts such as China's re-opening, airlines recovering, and lowered supply leading to higher oil prices. APA Corporation, formerly known as Apache, operates in the US, Egypt and the UK and is one of the largest American explorers for oil and gas properties. It owns...

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Everyone knows Foot Locker. While athletic footwear sales were down during the pandemic, they're back with a vengeance as work-from-home and the athleisure aesthetic have only grown in popularity (estimated to be a $77 billion business by 2025.) To consumers, sneakers hit many of these elements: practical necessity, recreation and exercise, personal style, luxury...

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Dublin-headquartered biopharmaceutical company Avadel Pharmaceuticals currently has a buzzy formulation of sodium oxybate in a Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of narcolepsy, among other candidates. The current twice-nightly U.S. narcolepsy oxybate market is estimated at $1.8 billion -- up to half of those patients quit because they need to wake up in the...

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EVs and infrastructure-related businesses such are "charging" ahead. Blink, having experienced a bit of a downturn with other EV and EV-economy companies, still garnered buy/hold/maintain ratings from analysts. With a market cap of 561M, the company offers residential and commercial EV charging equipment, hardware, and software on its cloud-based Blink Network...

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Elections in Brazil have more or less settled down, and so has the initial volatility following results. While there is still some pessimism about President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's victory and consequent spending, the economy seems fundamentally strong enough to support it. Expanding the portfolio to foreign countries, iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ) includes...

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At the midpoint of travel, China, and the internet is Shanghai-based TCOM -- owner and operator of Trip. com, Skyscanner, Qunar, TrainPal, MakeMyTrip and other websites for hotel reservations, transportation tickets, corporate travel, and other travel services internationally. Other areas of business are insurance products, tours and packages, travel data...