BofA Securities Out With 9 Sizzling ‘Strong Buy’ Trading Ideas for Q1 2023

The Global Markets segment is involved in client execution activities for cash and derivative instruments; credit products; mortgages; currencies; commodities; and equities; and provision of equity intermediation and equity financing services. It also offers clearing, settlement and custody services.

Goldman Sachs stock comes with a 2.91% dividend. The $384 BofA Securities target price is less than the $395.24 consensus target, but shares closed on Wednesday at $347.70.

Humana

Earnings are expected to continue to grow as the U.S. population is aging and this company is a big player in Medicare plans. Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) engages in the provision of health insurance services.

Its Retail segment consists of products sold on a retail basis to individuals, including medical and supplemental benefit plans such as Medicare and state-based Medicaid contracts. The Group and Specialty segment contains employer group fully insured commercial medical products and specialty health insurance benefits marketed to individuals and groups, including dental, vision, military services and other supplemental health and voluntary insurance benefits.

The Healthcare Services segment offers services such as pharmacy solutions, provider services, clinical care, predictive modeling and informatics services to other Humana businesses, as well as external health plan members, external health plans and other employers.

The dividend yield here is 0.62%. The $640 target price at BofA Securities compares with the $619.95 consensus target for Humana stock. The final trade on Wednesday was reported at $492.12.

NVR

This is another off-theadar idea, and one that may be a little pricey for many investors. NVR Inc. (NYSE: NVR) engages in the construction and sale of single-family detached homes, townhomes and condominium buildings in the United States.

NVR markets its Ryan Homes products to first-time and first-time move-up buyers, and its NVHomes and Heartland Homes products to move-up and luxury buyers. It also provides various mortgageelated services to its homebuilding customers, as well as brokers title insurance. It performs title searches in connection with mortgage loan closings and sells mortgage loans to investors in the secondary markets on a servicingeleased basis.

NVR primarily operates in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and the District of Columbia.

BofA Securities has a $4,900 price target on NVR stock. The $4,964 consensus target also compares with Wednesday’s close was at $4,674.22.

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