Sign InBreakout Stocks of Week 11
NASDAQ was down last week (week 10) by -1.24% ending at 22,387.68 points after falling -280.53 points during the week. Our system has detected some possible breakout stocks for the following week and these should be on your watchlist. These are the stocks that are bouncing up with good increase in volume and are likely to do good in short term. One of these stocks are Vaalco Energy Inc NYSE:EGY. This stock has had a buy signal since Jan 08, 2026 when the price was $3.61 and is so far up 50.97% to $5.45. Some other companies are on our watchlist to, among these are Akamai Technologies NASDAQ:AKAM Fortive Corp NYSE:FTV Aflac Incorporated NYSE:AFL and Vanguard Short-Term Government ETF NASDAQ:VGSH which all got a breakout pattern emerging.
| Date | Company | Price | Week 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vaalco Energy Inc | $5.45 | $5.39 | -1.10% |
| Akamai Technologies | $99.89 | $107.67 | 7.79% |
| Fortive Corp | $57.39 | $54.27 | -5.44% |
| Aflac Incorporated | $111.29 | $108.71 | -2.32% |
| Vanguard Short-term Government Etf | $58.67 | $58.53 | -0.239% |
The Vaalco Energy stock price gained 2.64% on the last trading day (Friday, 6th Mar 2026), rising from $5.31 to $5.45. During the last trading day the stock fluctuated 3.93% from a day low at $5.34 to a day high of $5.55. The price has risen in 6 of the last 10 days and is up by 5.83% over the past 2 weeks. Volume has increased on the last day along with the price, which is a positive technical sign, and, in total, 1 million more shares were traded than the day before. In total, 2 million shares were bought and sold for approximately $11.59 million.
Vaalco Energy holds several positive signals and is within a strong rising trend. As the old saying says, "Let the trend be your friend.'". We therefore consider it to be a good choice at these current levels and we are expecting further gains during the next 3 months.
About Vaalco Energy Inc:
VAALCO Energy, Inc., an independent energy company, acquires, explores for, develops, and produces crude oil and natural gas. The company holds Etame production sharing contract related to the Etame Marin block located offshore in the Republic of Gabon in West Africa. It also owns interests in an undeveloped block offshore Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. VAALCO Energy, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
The Akamai Technologies stock price fell by -1.10% on the last day (Friday, 6th Mar 2026) from $101.00 to $99.89. During the last trading day the stock fluctuated 3.93% from a day low at $96.98 to a day high of $100.79. The price has fallen in 6 of the last 10 days but is still up by 6.07% over the past 2 weeks. Volume has increased on the last day by 5 thousand shares but on falling prices. This may be an early warning and the risk will be increased slightly over the next couple of days. In total, 3 million shares were bought and sold for approximately $273.38 million.
On May 15, 2026, it was reported that Citigroup gave AKAM a "Neutral" grade with a "hold" action.
Several short-term signals, along with a general good trend, are positive and we conclude that the current level may hold a buying opportunity as there is a fair chance for Akamai Technologies stock to perform well in the short-term.
About Akamai Technologies:
Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud services for securing, delivering, and optimizing content and business applications over the internet in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud solutions to keep infrastructure, websites, applications, application programming interfaces, and users safe from various cyberattacks and online threats while enhancing performance. It also provides web and mobile performance solutions to enable dynamic websites and applications; media delivery solutions, including video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system, resolution, and data and analytics; and edge compute solutions to enable developers to deploy and distribute code at the edge. In addition, the company offers carrier offerings, including cybersecurity protection, parental controls, DNS infrastructure and content delivery solutions; and an array of service and support to assist customers with integrating, configuring, optimizing, and managing its offerings. It sells its solutions through direct sales and service organizations, as well as through various channel partners. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Fortive Corp stock price fell by -1.10% on the last day (Friday, 6th Mar 2026) from $58.03 to $57.39. During the last trading day the stock fluctuated 3.26% from a day low at $55.58 to a day high of $57.39. The price has fallen in 6 of the last 10 days and is down by -1.53% for this period. Volume has increased on the last day by 1 million shares but on falling prices. This may be an early warning and the risk will be increased slightly over the next couple of days. In total, 4 million shares were bought and sold for approximately $247.71 million.
On May 01, 2026, it was reported that Citigroup gave FTV a "Neutral" grade with a "hold" action.
Several short-term signals, along with a general good trend, are positive and we conclude that the current level may hold a buying opportunity as there is a fair chance for Fortive Corp stock to perform well in the short-term.
About Fortive Corp:
Fortive Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services professional and engineered products, software, and services worldwide. Its Intelligent Operating Solutions segment offers connected reliability tools; environment, health, safety, and quality enterprise software products; facility and asset lifecycle software; pre-construction planning and construction procurement solutions; ruggedized professional test tools; electric, pressure, and temperature calibration tools; and portable gas detection tools for a range of vertical end markets including manufacturing, process industries, healthcare, utilities and power, communications and electronics, and others. It markets its products and services under the ACCRUENT, FLUKE, GORDIAN, INDUSTRIAL SCIENTIFIC, INTELEX, PRUFTECHNIK, and SERVICECHANNEL brands. The company's Precision Technologies segment provides electrical test and measurement instruments and services; energetic material devices; and sensor and control system solutions for power and energy, medical equipment, food and beverage, aerospace and defense, off-highway vehicles, electronics, semiconductors, and other general industrial markets. This segment markets its products under the ANDERSON-NEGELE, GEMS, SETRA, HENGSTLER-DYNAPAR, QUALITROL, PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC, KEITHLEY, and TEKTRONIX brands. Its Advanced Healthcare Solutions segment offers hardware and software products and services, including instrument and device reprocessing, instrument tracking, biomedical test tools, radiation safety monitoring, and asset management services; subscription-based surgical inventory management systems to facilitate inventory management and regulatory compliance, as well as technical, analytical, and compliance services to determine radiation exposure services under the ASP, CENSIS, CENSITRAC, EVOTECH, FLUKE BIOMEDICAL, INVETECH, LANDAUER, RAYSAFE, and STERRAD brands. Fortive Corporation was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Everett, Washington.
The Aflac Incorporated stock price gained 0.225% on the last trading day (Friday, 6th Mar 2026), rising from $111.04 to $111.29. During the last trading day the stock fluctuated 2.29% from a day low at $108.98 to a day high of $111.48. The price has been going up and down for this period, and there has been a -2.4% loss for the last 2 weeks. Volume has increased on the last day along with the price, which is a positive technical sign, and, in total, 474 thousand more shares were traded than the day before. In total, 2 million shares were bought and sold for approximately $227.11 million.
On May 26, 2026, it was reported that Piper Sandler gave AFL a "Overweight" grade with a "hold" action.
Several of the signals/indicators are negative, and we believe that this will affect on the development for the next days and maybe possible weeks. However, over time, we think that today's level holds a possible buying opportunity and that the price will be higher during or at the end of this 3-month period.
About Aflac Incorporated:
Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers cancer, medical, nursing care income support, GIFT, and whole and term life insurance products, as well as WAYS and child endowment plans under saving type insurance products in Japan. The Aflac U.S. segment provides cancer, accident, short-term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, dental, vision, long-term care and disability, and term and whole life insurance products in the United States. It sells its products through sales associates, brokers, independent corporate agencies, individual agencies, and affiliated corporate agencies. The company was founded in 1955 and is based in Columbus, Georgia.
The Vanguard Short-Term Government ETF price gained 0.0512% on the last trading day (Friday, 6th Mar 2026), rising from $58.64 to $58.67. During the last trading day the ETF fluctuated 0.188% from a day low at $58.60 to a day high of $58.71. The price has fallen in 6 of the last 10 days and is down by -0.32% for this period. Volume has increased on the last day along with the price, which is a positive technical sign, and, in total, 5 million more shares were traded than the day before. In total, 8 million shares were bought and sold for approximately $455.35 million.
Several of the signals/indicators are negative, and we believe that this will affect on the development for the next days and maybe possible weeks. However, over time, we think that today's level holds a possible buying opportunity and that the price will be higher during or at the end of this 3-month period.
About Vanguard Short-Term Government ETF:
The investment seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted government bond index with a short-term dollar-weighted average maturity.
The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays U.S. 1-3 Year Government Float Adjusted Index. This index includes fixed income securities issued by the U.S. Treasury and U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities, as well as corporate or dollar-denominated foreign debt guaranteed by the U.S. government, all with maturities between 1 and 3 years. At least 80% of the fund's assets will be invested in bonds included in the index.
Despite these candidates are looking good from a technical perspective they may not perform as expected. You should always be cautious when trading and base your decisions on more than one source of information. This does not constitute an offer or recommendation to buy or sell securities.
GOLDEN STAR
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IDYA
$28.98
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20.46% | Jun 12 |
DHI
$146.71
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6.39% | Jun 10 |
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ETD
$20.67
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4.79% | Jun 05 |
EAT
$140.46
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16.94% | Jun 05 |
OSW
$24.00
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17.08% | Jun 04 |
