Analyst initiations 9-5-07: LULU, DPZ, KNXA, OMTR and NWS

Posted Sep 5th 2007 11:22AM by Eric Buscemi
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), News Corp'B' (NWS), Analyst Initiations

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Lululemon, Domino's Pizza, Kenexa, Omniture and News Corp were today's noteworthy initiations:

Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) was initiated with a Neutral rating at Merrill Lynch. CIBC believes the company is well-positioned to replace its Canadian success in the U.S. market and started shares with a Sector Outperformer rating and $39 target. The stock was started at Wachovia with a Market Perform rating on valuation.
Citigroup finds Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) compelling for long-term investors given the company's solid cash flows, above-average margins, and international growth opportunity. The firm initiated shares with a Buy rating and $22 target.
RBC Capital started shares of Kenexa Corporation (NASDAQ: KNXA) with a Sector Perform rating and $32 target, citing lack of visibility into the company's product roadmap.
RBC initiated shares of Omniture Inc (NASDAQ: OMTR) with an Outperform rating and $33 target. The firm believes Omniture is well-positioned given cross selling opportunities, best in class products, strong secular trends, and expanding client roster.
News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) was initiated with a Buy rating and added to Stifel's Select List. The firm believes the FOX TV Network, stations and FOX News can garner an incremental recurring 100% margin retransmission and affiliate fees totaling $1B by 2010, adding that its sum-of-the-parts model for News Corp captures the value of $8B of "hidden" assets, yielding a fair market value of $30-$31.

OTHER INTIATIONS:

CRT Capital initiated shares of Navistar (NASDAQ: NAVZ) with a Buy rating and $75 target.
JP Morgan started shares of Dice Holdings (NYSE: DHX) with an Overweight rating.
Think Equity started shares of Whole Foods Market Inc (NASDAQ: WFMI) with an Accumulate rating and $51 target.

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9-06-2007 @ 7:13AM

CrossProfit said...

OMTR - Omniture

RBC is late to the party. It is very suspect that they iinitiate now. Where were they 12 or 18 months ago?

Even Jim Cramer, who has been a long term bull all the way from $8 to $23 and at one time called a 30-32 top, has changed his mind. Check out TheStreet.com [ http://ratings.thestreet.com/tools/basic/ratings.html?s=omtr ] and see that OMTR is now a recommended sell.

Also see http://www.crossprofit.com/article.asp?id=95 . Article was recommended by the Weekend Blog Watch / James Altucher / TheStreet.com