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Top Ranked Momentum Stocks to Buy for May 11th

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Here are four stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, May 11th:

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NGVC - Free Report) : This grocery store chain has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings advancing 19.1% over the last 60 days.

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage’s shares gained 47.2% over the last one month higher than the S&P 500’s increase of 3.1%. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM - Free Report) : This provider of cloud services has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 8.6% over the last 60 days.

Akamai Technologies’ shares gained 6.7% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

McDermott International, Inc. : This provider of oil and gas serviceshas a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings advancing 6.5% over the last 60 days.

McDermott International’s shares gained 15% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

Bottomline Technologies, Inc. : This service based solutions provider has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 3.5% over the last 60 days.

Bottomline Technologies’ shares gained 6.7% over the last one month. The company possesses a Momentum Score of A.

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Learn more about the Momentum score and how it is calculated here.

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