Analyst Calls 1-3-07: Goldman negative on chip stocks

Posted Jan 3rd 2007 10:00AM by Jon Ogg
Filed under: Before the Bell, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Amazon.com (AMZN), General Motors (GM), Home Depot (HD), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Applied Materials (AMAT), BB and T (BBT), Wachovia Corp (WB), Merck and Co (MRK), Texas Instruments (TXN), Analyst Initiations

AerCap Holdings (NYSE:AER) quiet-period ends: AER started as Outperform at Wachovia, as Overweight at Morgan Stanley and Lehman, and as Buy at Merrill Lynch.

Goldman Sachs is mostly negative and cautious on select Chip Stocks:
Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) cut to Sell. Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) cut to Sell. Credence Systems (NASDAQ:CMOS) cut to Sell. Micron (NYSE:MU) raised to Neutral. Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) raised to Neutral.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) cut to Sell at Citigroup; cites margin and business pressures.

A.G.Edwards started new coverage in many financial companies:
BB&T Corp. (NYSE:BBT) started as Hold. Fiserv (NASDAQ:FISV) cut to Hold. Regions Financial (NYSE:RF) started as Sell. Sun Trust (NYSE:STI) started as Hold. Wachovia Corp. (NYSE:WB) started as Hold. Wilmington Trust (NYSE:WL) raised to Buy.

General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) cut to Sell at B of A; GM shares were trading down almost 1% pre-market.

The Home Depot Inc. (HD) raised to Strong Buy at Raymond James, oddly enough this was before Nardelli said he was leaving.

Merck & Co. (NYSE:MRK) raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns; stock was up 1% pre-market.

ONEOK (NYSE:OKE) named as Conviction Buy at Goldman Sachs on discounted valuation.

Telik (NASDAQ:TELK) was cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns. If that isn't just a carryover from a weekend call or last week this one is a bit late.

You can access the full list of analyst Calls from 24/7 Wall St. here.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-03-2007 @ 11:42AM

Bill Darwin said...

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