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Top Wall Street Firm Has 5 Stocks Under $10 With 160% to 970% Upside Potential – 24/7 Wall St.

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Investing

December 10, 2022 6:10 am

While most of Wall Street focuses on large-cap and mega-cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of shares they can buy. Many of the biggest public companies, especially the technology giants, trade in the hundreds, all the way up to over $1,000 per share or more. At those steep prices, it is difficult to get any decent share count leverage.

Many investors, especially more aggressive traders, look at lower-priced stocks as a way not only to make some good money but to get a higher share count. That can really help the decision-making process, especially when you are on to a winner, as you can always sell half and keep half.

Skeptics of low-priced shares should remember that at one point both Amazon, Apple and Netflix traded in the single digits. One stock we featured over the years, Zynga, was purchased by Take-Two Interactive. Cogent Biosciences, which we featured in March, has tripled since then.

Raymond James is one the premier investment banks in the world, so we screened the firm’s outstanding research database and found five stocks trading for less than $10 a share with the firm’s highest Strong Buy rating that could provide investors with some massive upside potential, ranging from 160% to almost 1,000%.

While all five are rated Outperform at Raymond James, they are much better suited for aggressive investors, and it is important to remember that no single analyst report should be used as a sole basis for any buying or selling decision.

Arlo Technologies

This company provides the kind of technology that is in big demand and forward growth could be remarkable. Arlo Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ARLO) provides a cloud-based platform in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. It combines an intelligent cloud infrastructure and mobile app with various smart connected devices.

The company offers Arlo essential indoor camera; Arlo Go 2 LTE/Wi-Fi security camera; Arlo Q and Arlo Q Plus, an indoor wired solution that allows users to monitor their surroundings; and Arlo Go, an LTE-enabled…

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4 Largest Private Armies in the World – 24/7 Wall St.

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Private security companies, which employ those who have served in the armed forces or in some other security capacity, have always had a mystique, seemingly operating beyond the control of governments. Besides working for corporations, governments contract them to provide security, sometimes in hotspots. 

One such flashpoint  was Iraq, where in 2007 four Blackwater security contractors killed 14 unarmed Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Blackwater became a byword for unchecked private military activity. The four contractors were convicted in 2014, and President Donald Trump pardoned them in December 2020. (These are companies that changed their names after scandals.)

Given the security trends around the world, private security companies are getting bigger. To determine the world’s four largest private armies, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the Contract Security Industry White Paper from Robert H. Perry & Associates, a broker for manned guarding companies. Companies were ranked based on global revenue for the most recent year available. (Also see, the largest armies in history.)

More and more large and small companies are outsourcing their security needs to private firms. These private security companies offer a suite of services: alarms and alarm response units, licensed security guards, surveillance, airport and border patrol, security crisis management, special events security oversight, and consulting and investigations services. 

Private security companies have a presence on every continent and employ thousands of people, providing security needs to hospitals, financial institutions, chemical and petroleum manufacturers, commercial real estate firms, and local, state, and federal governments. 

Global demand for security services is forecast to rise 3.6% per year to $263 billion by 2024, according to a 2020 report from Freedonia Global Security Services. Growth will be driven by the increased in-house security outsourcing as well as an increase in electronics security offerings. 

Click here to see the 4 largest private armies in the world.

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Wall Street eyes cybersecurity, with Goldman Sachs announcing $125 million investment

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Growing concerns over cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the United States are prompting record investments from firms to protect critical industries.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said last month that intelligence officials were “concerned” about the possibility of Russian cyberattacks against critical U.S. infrastructure in the wake of Russia’s war with Ukraine.

“The reason we’re concerned about it is not just based on our longstanding understanding of how the Russians operate, but it’s actually the product of specific investigative work and surveillance work that we’ve been doing all together,” Wray told an audience at the Detroit Economic Club in March.

Wray’s comments came a few weeks before Tuesday’s announcement that Goldman Sachs planned to expand its reach in supply chain cybersecurity, investing $125 million in a strategic partnership with a company that serves energy, government and aerospace and defense accounts.

Nikhil Gupta, a professor with New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, who is affiliated with the NYU Center for Cyber Security, told ABC News the investment was part of a growing trend.

Over the past year, several private investment firms have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in cybersecurity. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s Liberty Strategic Capital spent $525 million to acquire mobile security vendor Zimperium last month; Turn/River Capital acquired security policy management firm Tufin for $570 million earlier this month; and software security giant McAfee sold its Enterprise business to Symphony Technology Group for $4 billion dollars in March 2021.

Gupta noted that “more than 70% of manufacturing is conducted by actually small and medium-sized companies, and these companies don’t have resources to invest in upgrading their computers or, or implementing cybersecurity solutions.”

He added, “A lot of times they are manufacturing companies and…

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FIREWALL- AN SOLUTION FOR COMPUTER SECURITY | What is a Firewall? Defined, Explained, and Explored

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