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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. These eight stocks all offer strong growth prospects at reasonable prices, a combination that should result in solid gains. We lean toward large companies, but our picks also include two small caps. These eight stock picks are part of Kiplinger's investing outlook for By Daren Fonda , Associate Editor From Kiplinger's Personal Finance, January Robert Scobie via Flickr.

Recent product launches include the Pixel smartphone and Google Home a virtual personal assistant.

CME has expanded by merging with other exchanges and providing more services to traders. Analysts expect profits to climb a modest 6. But CME pays a regular dividend of 60 cents a share and will likely pay a special dividend at year-end. A real estate investment trust, Crown Castle Intl.

Income is climbing as customers consume more data on mobile devices. Headwaters is a leading maker of roofing and other building products. A healthy housing market should support strong sales.

Headwaters is also thriving as a supplier of fly ash, which is increasingly used in concrete production. The shares look cheap at 12 times estimated profits, says Charlie Smith, with Fort Pitt Capital in Pittsburgh.

Another reason to buy: Headwaters may spin off its fly-ash business.

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Running clinical trials for biotech firms, Medpace handles everything from the design of a research study to its execution. Medpace would face setbacks if drugmakers were to reduce spending for clinical trials. Palo Alto Networks sells sophisticated hardware and software to protect networks against cyberattacks.

Sales are rising steadily as the firm expands its product lineup and signs up more customers for subscriptions to its cloud-based software, creating revenue streams that should last for years. After stagnating for years, U. That should boost sales for Raytheon, which makes military products—from Patriot missiles to electronic warfare systems.

Foreign sales, about one-third of the total, are also rising. Biotech firm Regeneron makes one of the top-selling drugs to prevent eye diseases in the elderly. The company may soon win regulatory approval for a new drug for rheumatoid arthritis, and it has several other promising drugs in late-stage studies.

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