On May 5,  2017, AroniSmartInvest In Action™ picked, leveraging  the proprietary advanced Text and Sentiment Analytics and Stock Segmentation a few  promising stocks . The stocks were picked based on YTD performance and other market drivers, but also the sentiment expressed in stock and market news.

Fig: AroniSmartInvest™: Stock Segmentation,  Network Analysis and RSS news and text analytics. 

This is how these stocks have performed YTD. The major indices's performance may be used to gauge the relative performance of each stock:

• DJI:           6.3%
• S &P 500:   7.17%
• NASDAQ:    13.33%

Performance YTD, as of May 5, 2017: ; red: below, blue: approximately equal ; green: significantly above major indices performance

• Tableau Software. (NASDAQ:DATA): + 18.29%.
• Apple, Inc (NYSE:AAPL): + 28.61%
• Google, Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG): + 19.92%
• Aon Plc  (NASDAQ:AON): +9.63%
• Monsanto.  (NASDAQ:MON):  +10.99%  
• Analogo Devices, Inc.  (NASDAQ:ADI):  +4.37%  
• Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA): +44.3% 
• EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS): +14.3%
• Merck & Co (NASDAQ:MRK): +8.66%
• Cisco Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO): +13.8%
• Medifast Inc (NASDAQ:MED): +11.99%
• Sony Corp (NASDAQ:SNE): +24.08%
• Mas Tec, Inc (NASDAQ:MTZ): +23.27%
• SAP SE (NASDAQ:SAP): +20.19%
• Catelpillar Inc (NASDAQ:CAT): +7.44%