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Best Mid Cap Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - April 12th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat’s screener flagged seven Mid Cap names to watch: SQQQ, TSLL, Fastly (FSLY), AXT (AXTI), DigitalOcean (DOCN), Applied Digital (APLD), and TeraWulf (WULF).
  • Selection basis and definition: These are mid-cap companies (roughly $2B–$10B market cap) that posted the highest dollar trading volume among Mid Caps in recent days, indicating elevated investor interest and liquidity.
  • Risk/profile note: SQQQ and TSLL are leveraged/inverse ETFs (SQQQ targets −3x daily Nasdaq‑100; TSLL targets +2x daily Tesla), while the other picks are tech and infrastructure stocks spanning edge/cloud services, semiconductors, datacenters, and crypto mining.
  • Five stocks we like better than ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ.

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ, Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares, Fastly, AXT, DigitalOcean, Applied Digital, and TeraWulf are the seven Mid Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Mid-cap stocks are shares of companies with a market capitalization generally between about $2 billion and $10 billion, measured by multiplying the company’s current share price by its total outstanding shares. Investors view mid caps as a middle ground between small and large caps—typically offering a balance of growth potential and relative stability, with moderate volatility and the potential for stronger long-term returns than large caps but less risk than small caps. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Mid Cap stocks within the last several days.

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQ)

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (the Fund) seeks daily investment results, which corresponds to three times the inverse of the daily performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index (the Index). The Index includes 100 of the non-financial domestic and international issues listed on National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) Stock Market.

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Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL)

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Fastly (FSLY)

Fastly, Inc. operates an edge cloud platform for processing, serving, and securing its customer's applications in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and internationally. The edge cloud is a category of Infrastructure as a Service that enables developers to build, secure, and deliver digital experiences at the edge of the internet.

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AXT (AXTI)

AXT, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes compound and single element semiconductor substrates. The company offers indium phosphide for use in data center connectivity using light/lasers, high-speed data transfer in data centers, 5G communications, fiber optic lasers and detectors, consumer devices, passive optical networks, silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits, thermo-photovoltaics, RF amplifier and switching, infrared light-emitting diode (LEDS) motion control, lidar for robotics and autonomous vehicles, and infrared thermal imaging.

Read Our Latest Research Report on AXTI

DigitalOcean (DOCN)

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates a cloud computing platform in North America, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company's platform provides on-demand infrastructure and platform tools for developers, start-ups, and small and growing digital businesses. It also offers infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions comprising compute and storage services, as well as networking projects, including Cloud Firewalls software, Managed Load Balancers software, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Read Our Latest Research Report on DOCN

Applied Digital (APLD)

Applied Digital Corporation designs, develops, and operates datacenters in North America. Its datacenters provide digital infrastructure solutions to the high-performance computing industry. The company also provides artificial intelligence cloud services, high performance computing datacenter hosting, and crypto datacenter hosting services.

Read Our Latest Research Report on APLD

TeraWulf (WULF)

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