Pandora Media

This company faces more and more competition, and it is often mentioned as a takeover target. Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) provides internet music streaming services in North America. It allows its listeners to create personalized stations to access free music and comedy catalogs, as well as a personalized playlist generating system.

The company also offers Pandora One, a paid subscription service to listeners. And it sells audio, display and video advertising to advertisers for delivery on computer, mobile and other connected device platforms.

While Pandora is clearly not the only company with a big desire to be in the music streaming business, it is the current leader in installation and use in the automotive world, and it has a decent collaboration deal with Comcast.

Piper Jaffray rates the stock a Buy and has a $9 price target. The posted consensus price target is $7.50. The shares ended the week at $4.98 apiece.

Kinross Gold

More aggressive investors may want to consider this smaller cap company. Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE: KGC) engages in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of gold properties. The company’s gold production and exploration activities are carried out principally in Canada, the United States, the Russian Federation, Brazil, Chile, Ghana and Mauritania. It also produces and sells silver.

Kinross announced last year that it will proceed with the Tasiast Phase Two and Round Mountain Project W projects. At full production by 2020, CEO Paul Rollinson sees these two projects stabilizing the company’s gold equivalent output in the 2.5 million ounce range. Trading at a discount to the peer producers, some believe that this valuation gap could be closed due to these projects.

Merrill Lynch analysts have a Buy rating and a $5.80 price objective. That compares to the consensus estimate of $3.77. The stock closed most recently at $3.57 per share.

Zynga

This very aggressive tech play could have upside beyond its Wedbush target. Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a leading developer of mobile and social games. In the company’s relatively short history, it has developed a broad portfolio of games that includes several games on Facebook and several top-grossing mobile apps. Key franchises include FarmVille, Zynga Poker, Hit It Rich Slots and Words With Friends.

With live events growing the company’s revenues, cost-cutting should drive margin expansion, which is very positive. The company also pops up in takeover chatter, and the low price makes it even more attractive.

The $5 Wedbush price target accompanies a Buy rating. The consensus target is $4.20, and the stock closed trading at $3.72 on Friday.

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Five stocks trading under the $10 level — most of them under $5. Again, while not suitable for conservative accounts, aggressive investors can get some solid share leverage buying 5,000, 10,000 or more and can make money on a much smaller market move.