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For new and old investors, taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals.
Many investors also have a go-to methodology that helps guide their buy and sell decisions. One way to find winning stocks based on your preferred way of investing is to use the Zacks Style Scores, which are indicators that rate stocks based on three widely-followed investing types: value, growth, and momentum.
Is This 1 Momentum Stock a Screaming Buy Right Now?
Momentum investors, who live by the saying "the trend is your friend," are most interested in taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Utilizing one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, among other factors, the Momentum Style Score can help determine favorable times to buy high-momentum stocks.
AptarGroup (ATR)
Headquartered in Crystal Lake, IL, AptarGroup is a global supplier of a broad range of innovative dispensing, sealing, and active packaging solutions for the beauty, personal care, home care, prescription drug, consumer health care, injectables, food and beverage markets. Its main products include dispensing pumps, closures, aerosol valves, and elastomeric primary packaging components. The company has manufacturing facilities across the globe including North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Its primary products are dispensing pumps, closures, aerosol valves, and elastomeric primary packaging components.
ATR boasts a Momentum Style Score of A and VGM Score of B, and holds a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) rating. Shares of AptarGroup has seen some interesting price action recently; the stock is up 1% over the past one week and up 5.3% over the past four weeks. And in the last one-year period, ATR has gained 0.4%. As for the stock's trading volume, 316,396.91 shares on average were traded over the last 20 days.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company's earnings. For ATR, three analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.24 to $5.81 per share for 2025. ATR boasts an average earnings surprise of 7.3%.
ATR should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.
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