Updating our Aggressive stocks: MTS Systems Corp., Nvidia Corp. and Keysight Technologies Inc.

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MTS SYSTEMS CORP. $52 (www.mts.com) remains a hold. The company continues to use acquisitions to fuel its growth, which add risk for investors. Its latest purchase is R&D, a privately held Danish firm that specializes in test systems that simulate extreme operating environments for large, rotating structures such as wind turbines. This purchase will cost MTS $55 million. Depending on how well R&D performs, it will have to make additional payments of $25 million. To put those amounts in context, MTS’s market cap is $991.7 million. NVIDIA CORP. $246 (www.nvidia.com) is also a hold. The stock has jumped 50% in the past year on stronger demand for chips that power datacentres and an uptick in personal computer sales. However, after its recent jump, Nvidia trades at 44.3 times the $5.55 a share it will probably earn in the fiscal year ending January 31, 2020. That high p/e could spark a big share-price drop for investors if Nvidia’s sales slow. KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. $96 (www.keysight.com)…