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The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Growth Investor model based on the published strategy of Martin Zweig. This strategy looks for growth stocks with persistent accelerating earnings and sales growth, reasonable valuations and low debt.

CRICUT INC (CRCT) is a small-cap growth stock in the Office Supplies industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Martin Zweig changed from 69% to 85% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: Cricut, Inc. is a creative technology company. The Company designs and builds its ecosystem of connected cutting machines, accessories, and materials for scalability and integration. Its segments include Connected Machines, Subscriptions and Accessories and Materials. The Connected Machines segment is engaged in the sale of its connected machine hardware and related essential software. The Accessories and Materials segment consists of craft, do it yourself (DIY), home decor products and heat presses. The Company's products include a flagship line of smart cutting machines - the Cricut Maker series, the Cricut Explore series, and Cricut Joy series, and Cricit Venture series - accompanied by other tools like Cricut EasyPress, the Infusible Ink system, and a diverse collection of materials. The Cricut platform centers around its cloud-based app, Cricut Design Space, giving users access to create and work on their projects anywhere, at any time, across desktop and mobile devices.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.

Detailed Analysis of CRICUT INC

About Martin Zweig: During the 15 years that it was monitored, Zweig's stock recommendation newsletter returned an average of 15.9 percent per year, during which time it was ranked number one based on risk-adjusted returns by Hulbert Financial Digest. Zweig has managed both mutual and hedge funds during his career, and he's put the fortune he's compiled to some interesting uses. He has owned what Forbes reported was the most expensive apartment in New York, a $70 million penthouse that sits atop Manhattan's Pierre Hotel, and he is a collector of all sorts of pop culture and historical memorabilia -- among his purchases are the gun used by Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry", a stock certificate signed by Commodore Vanderbilt, and even two old-fashioned gas pumps similar to those he'd seen at a nearby gas station while growing up in Cleveland, according to published reports.

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