Analyst downgrades: Mortgage finance sector, APPB, FTEK, BHP, AAUK and RTP
Posted Oct 22nd 2007 10:45AM by Eric Buscemi
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, American Express (AXP), Countrywide Financial (CFC), Washington Mutual (WM), BHP Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP), Rio Tinto plc ADS (RTP), IndyMac Bancorp (IMB), Anglo American (AAUKY)
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MOST NOTEWORTHY: The mortgage finance sector, Applebee's, Fuel-Tech, BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Rio Tinto were today's noteworthy downgrades:
- Lehman downgraded the mortgage finance sector to Negative from Neutral citing the potential of over $100B in losses for the group in the coming years. Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) was downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight; IndyMac Bancorp (NYSE: IMB) and Countrywide Financial Corporation (NYSE: CFC) were downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight.
- Applebee's International (NASDAQ: APPB) was downgraded to Underperform from Market Perform at Wachovia, as the firm sees potential downside risk if the company's acquisition of IHOP Corp (NYSE: IHP) does not go through, following mixed reviews from Proxy firms.
- Merriman downgraded shares of Fuel-Tech (NASDAQ: FTEK) to Sell from Neutral after channel checks indicated the competitive landscape is much more challenging than commonly perceived for the FUEL CHEM product line. Merriman sees significant risk to shares at current levels.
- Citigroup downgraded shares of BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), Anglo American (NASDAQ: AAUK) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP) to Hold from Buy on valuation following the recent rally.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-22-2007 @ 12:16PM
Skibro said...
Lehman, Merriman, Wachovia, and Citigroup analysts must have played golf together this weekend.
Who cares what they think?
They should have downgraded their company stock and see what happens.
I wouldn't buy their company's stock no matter what.
10-22-2007 @ 5:19PM
Delaney said...
It is amazing to me that they downgrade stocks
after they have already gone down 60+% !!
At some point , CFC and WM will recover
as they are major players in the home mortgage
market.