Traders' Picks For CNBC's 2022 Stock Draft, 'Fast Money: Halftime Report'

The CNBC Stock Draft is an annual stock-picking competition pitting market professionals, athletes, and celebrities against each other. Each team makes two picks from a list of 60 stocks and other investments.

The winner is the team whose stocks have the highest average price appreciation between the closing price on April 28, 2022, to Feb. 10, 2023.

This year's draft is expected to kick off on CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” which starts at 2 p.m. ET Thursday.

On "Halftime Report," traders had the opportunity to choose what their stock picks for the draft are this year; here they are.

Jenny Harrington - Meta Platforms Inc FB
Jon Najarian - PayPal Holdings Inc PYPL
Steve Weiss - Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS

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Unusual options activity:

Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS
Peabody Energy BTU
Marathon Petroleum Corp MPC

Final trades:

Apple Inc AAPL
Micron Technology, Inc MU
Vodafone Group Plc VOD
SL Green Realty SLG