by Kerri Fronczak
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by Kerri Fronczak
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The group of stocks known as the FAANGs (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet) have garnered significant attention from investors and market pundits—often painted as a homogeneous, overvalued set of stocks. We provide our view of the stocks.
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