Cut your Finance risk with non-bank stocks

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We continue to recommend investors diversify their Finance sector holdings with non-bank stocks. Here are three stocks that dominate their niche markets, which helps cut your risk. What’s more, they are incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve the performance of their products and services. That should spur their growth for years to come. PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC. $61 is a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors. The company (Nasdaq symbol PYPL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.05 billion; Market cap: $64.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.paypal.com) processes online transactions on millions of websites, including purchases made on the sites of its former parent company eBay Inc. (Nasdaq symbol EBAY). PayPal also owns the Venmo smartphone app. It lets users transfer funds to other Venmo users by linking the app to a bank account, or to a debit or credit card. In the three months ended March 31, 2024, PayPal’s revenue rose 9.4%, to $7.70 billion from…