These Tech Shares Make Irresistible "Takeover Targets"

Editor's Note: Investors are being treated to a huge year for buyouts and deal-making, with the numbers topping $406 billion across the market. In the red-hot games and entertainment segment, M&A activity is taking on a strategic quality that has the potential to ignite returns for investors who pick the right targets. Here to run down the best companies vying in the takeover stakes is Bill Patalon... I'm going to start by letting you in on a simple-but-powerful investing secret. And that secret is this: Never buy a company's stock just because you're betting on a buyout. That's a poor, poor bet. Now, if you have a stock where you've identified multiple potential catalysts - and a buyout is one of those possible big-gain triggers - that's a different story. And today we're going to tell you about two stocks where a buyout is one of those potential big-profit triggers. So let's get started... These tech shares have multiple potential catalysts that could trigger huge gains, and a buyout is one of them. Here's an up-close look at two hot tech stocks... Tags: gaming stocks , Glu Mobile stock , GLUU stock , investing in tech , mobile gaming stocks , Nasdaq: GLUU , Nasdaq: ZNGA , tech investing , tech sector M&A , tech shares , tech stocks , tech takeover targets , ZNGA Stock , Zynga stock To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2015 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post These Tech Shares Make Irresistible "Takeover Targets" appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .