Updating your aggressive stocks: Teradata Corp., Idexx Laboratories Inc. and Yum! Brands Inc.

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TERADATA CORP., $29, (www.teradata.com) is still a hold. It makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for individual businesses—its clients. It then analyzes that information and identifies consumer buying habits and other trends. Teradata’s investors continue to benefit from its new strategy of selling products as cloud-based subscriptions, instead of one-time software purchases. The company is also doing a good job of controlling costs. In the second quarter of 2019, earnings per share rose 11.5%, to $0.29 from $0.26 a year earlier. Revenue, however, fell 12.2%, to $478 million from $544 million. IDEXX LABORATORIES INC., $268, (www.idexx.com) is also a hold. The company makes equipment that veterinarians use to detect diseases in pets and farm animals. Investors should expect to see its 2019 revenue increase to between $2.38 billion and $2.41 billion. However, due to unfavourable exchange rates, that’s down from an earlier prediction of $2.385 billion to $2,425 billion. The stock also trades at a very high 55.0 times its projected…