Here are three stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, Oct. 17th:Tesco (TSCDY) : This company, which is the UK's largest retailer and one of the world's leading international retailers, has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 4.6% over the last 60 days.Tesco's shares gained 8% over the last three month compared with the S&P 500’s gain of 5.2%. The company possesses a Momentum Score ...