Updating your Aggressive stocks: Teradata, Diebold Nixdorf, and State Street

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TERADATA CORP. $40 (www.teradata.com) is a hold. The company makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for individual businesses—its clients. Teradata continues to benefit from its new strategy of selling products as cloud-based subscriptions, instead of one-time software purchases. As part of that plan, it recently formed a new alliance with cloud-service provider Amazon Web Services. That should make it easier for customers to use Teradata’s software. However, the company continues to face strong competition from much bigger firms like IBM and Oracle. Teradata is a hold. DIEBOLD NIXDORF INC. $9.24 (www.dieboldnixdorf.com) is a hold, but only for aggressive investors. The company is the world’s biggest maker of automated teller machines (ATMs). Chip shortages and transport delays continue to impact its operations. It now expects its revenue in 2021 totalled $3.90 billion to $3.95 billion; that’s down from an earlier forecast of $4.0 billion to $4.1 billion. Diebold is a hold. STATE STREET CORP. $94 (www.statestreet.com) is a buy. The company recently agreed to acquire the investor services…