Cyberthreat powers this tech leader

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NortonLifeLock is the new name for Symantec—a long-time tech favourite that handed our subscribers a whopping 1,174.3% gain. The cybersecurity company changed its name following the sale of its corporate business late last year. Looking at NortonLifeLock’s new focus on consumer cybersecurity and identity protection, we think it has lots of room to move higher. NORTONLIFELOCK INC. $20.70, is a Power Buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol NLOK; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.nortonlifelock.com; Shares outstanding: 589.0 million; Market cap: $11.8 billion; Dividend yield 2.4%) gives you a stake in the newly renamed Symantec following the sale of its Enterprise Security business to Broadcom (Nasdaq symbol AVGO) in November 2019. For decades, Symantec sold antivirus protection to individuals through its Norton security software. However, the market for that product was flat. Demand for personal computers (PCs) has been mostly stagnant in recent years, and free antivirus software, including Microsoft’s Windows Defender, has emerged as a major competitor. On the other hand, Symantec’s 2017 purchase of LifeLock for $2.3 billion was…