3 Top Tech Stocks to Buy for 2021 Amid a Global Hardware Shortage

Three top names that had especially good fourth-quarter 2020 report cards -- and look like great buys for 2021 -- are Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), and Universal Display (NASDAQ: OLED). As management anticipated a few months ago, Arista Networks returned to year-over-year growth mode in grand fashion at the end of 2020. Fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings per share increased 17% and 9%, respectively, from a year ago as the company started to lap results from the data center construction slowdown that started in 2019.