Morgan Stanley Lists Top SMID Stocks To Buy And Sell Headed Into 2017

Now that the holiday shopping season is winding down, the Morgan Stanley sales team has come up with a new shopping list of small- and mid-cap (SMID) stocks for traders to buy in the final days of 2016.

To Buy

Here’s a rundown of all the companies on Morgan Stanley’s buy list.

• Acushnet Holdings Corp GOLF.
• Alaska Air Group, Inc. ALK.
• Align Technology, Inc. ALGN.
• Alps Electric Co Ltd (ADR) APELY.
• Auto Nation, Inc. AN.
• Blue Buffalo Pet Products Inc BUFF.
• DBV Technologies SA – ADR DBVT.
• Duke Realty Corp DRE.
• Fairmount Santrol Holdings Inc FMSA.
• Fortinet Inc FTNT.
• Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. (ADR) GGAL.
• Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc HLX.
• Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. HRC.
• Hubbell Incorporated HUBB.
• Steel Dynamics, Inc. STLD.
• Interpublic Group of Companies Inc IPG.
• Mallinkrodt PLC MNK.
• Marks and Spencer Group Plc (ADR) MAKSY.
• Panera Bread Co PNRA.
• Pandora Media Inc P.
• Parsley Energy Inc PE.
• Patheon NV PTHN.
• Quantenna Communications Inc QTNA.
• Sabre Corp SABR.
• Splunk Inc SPLK.
• Steel Dynamics, Inc. STLD.
• TETRA Technologies, Inc. TTI.
• Travelport Worldwide Ltd TVPT.
• United States Steel Corporation X.
• Voya Financial Inc VOYA.
• Yum China Holdings Inc YUMC.

Names To Sell

In addition to the stocks that traders should be buying, the Morgan Stanley team also came up with a list of stocks to Sell:

• CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. CBL.
• Coach Inc COH.
• Juniper Networks, Inc. JNPR.
• People’s United Financial, Inc. PBCT.
• Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. PB.
• United Natural Foods, Inc. UNFI.
• The Western Union Company WU.