Today's featured stock is Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT).
Long Ideas
| Symbol | Company | Sector | Current Price | Action Price | Target | Stop | Notes |
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| BPOP | Popular, Inc. | Banks | $152.09 | hi 130s - low 150s | 200 | 120 | 5 for 5'er, 18 of 174 in favored BANK sector matrix, LT pos peer & mkt RS, triple top, good R-R, 2% yield |
| GRMN | Garmin Ltd. | Leisure | $238.53 | mid 230s - mid 260s | 364 | 196 | 5 TA rating, LT pos trend and mkt RS buy, top 33% of LEIS sector matrix, buy-on-pullback |
| SBUX | Starbucks Corporation | Restaurants | $101.42 | hi 90s - mid 100s | 129 | 85 | 4 for 5'er, top 20% of REST sector matrix, mkt RS reversal to Xs, triple top, 2.35% yield |
| OSW | OneSpaWorld Holdings Ltd. | Leisure | $24.31 | 22 - 24 | 30.50 | 19 | 5 for 5'er, top half of LEIS sector matrix, LT pos peer & mkt RS, spread quintuple top |
| IMO | Imperial Oil Limited | Oil | $129.01 | mid 120s to mid 130s | 164 | 112 | 5 for 5'er; top quartile of Oil matrix; long term mkt and peer RS; Pos. Trend since May '25. |
| SKT | Tanger Inc. | Real Estate | $35.93 | mid-to-hi 30s | 48 | 31 | 5 for 5'er, top 25% of REAL sector matrix, LT pos peer & mkt RS, R-R~2.0, 3.2% yield |
| IBOC | International Bancshares Corporation | Banks | $73.04 | low-to-mid 70s | 93 | 63 | 4 for 5'er, favored BANK sector, LT pos peer & mkt RS, bearish signal reversal, R-R~2.0, 1.95% yield |
| MSGE | Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. | Leisure | $70.56 | 63 to 69 | 98 | 53 | 5 for 5'er since Nov. 2025; Top Decile of Leisure Matrix; Pos. Trend since May 2025; ATH 5/7. |
| LYV | Live Nation Entertainment Inc. | Leisure | $166.52 | low 160s to mid 170s | 202 | 142 | 4 for 5'er; Pos. Trend; Top Half of Leisure Matrix; Within one box of ATH. |
| MO | Altria Group Inc. | Food Beverages/Soap | $72.37 | low-to-mid 70s | 91 | 62 | 4 for 5'er, top quartile of FOOD sector matrix, one box from RS buy, bullish triangle, 5.9% yield |
| MPC | Marathon Petroleum Corp. | Oil Service | $248.05 | 240 - 260 | 360 | 208 | 4 for 5'er, pos. trend, top third of Oil Services matrix, pos. L-T Mkt and Peer RS. |
| CELC | Celcuity Inc. | Biomedics/Genetics | $134.25 | low $130 - low $140 | 216 | 116 | 5/5'er since Oct. '25, pos. trend, top quintile of Biom. matrix, R-R > 5. |
| VLO | Valero Energy Corp | Oil Service | $241.45 | mid 230s - hi 250s | 328 | 212 | 4 TA rating, top 50% of OILS sector matrix, LT pos trend, buy-on-pullback |
| C | Citigroup, Inc. | Banks | $126.86 | low 120s - low 130s | 188 | 102 | 5 for 5'er since July '25; top decile of Banks matrix; pos. trend since May '25. |
| AMAT | Applied Materials, Inc. | Semiconductors | $454.89 | 420s - low 450s | 576 | 376 | 4 for 5'er, favored SEMI sector matrix, LT pos peer & mkt RS, shakeout --> triple top, good R-R |
Short Ideas
| Symbol | Company | Sector | Current Price | Action Price | Target | Stop | Notes |
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Removed Ideas
| Symbol | Company | Sector | Current Price | Action Price | Target | Stop | Notes |
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| CGNX | Cognex Corp | Electronics | $68.35 | low-to-mid 50s | 75 | 52 | CGNX has moved into heavily overbought territory. OK to hold here. Raise stop to $59. |
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NDW Spotlight Stock
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. R ($444.78) - Semiconductors - AMAT is a 4 for 5'er that that belongs to the favored semiconductors matrix and has been on peer and market RS buy signals since 2016 and 2023, respectively. In Tuesday's trading, AMAT completed a shakeout pattern when it broke a triple top at $456. Long exposure may be added in the $420s to low $450s and we will set our initial stop at $376, a potential spread triple bottom break on AMAT's chart. We will use the bullish price objective, $576, as our target price, giving us a reward-to-risk ratio approaching 2.0.
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