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Analyst Calls: AB, BG, CMG, CSCO, DF, EXPE, JLL, MU, NLSN, S, SO ...

Posted Feb 11th 2011 11:15AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Sprint Nextel Corp (S), Chipotle Mexican Grill'A' (CMG), Expedia Inc (EXPE), Dean Foods (DF), Analyst Initiations

Analyst Upgrades

Interpublic Group (IPG) to buy from hold at Deutsche Bank.
Radware (RDWR) to outperform from perform at Oppenheimer.
Fluor (FLR) and Waddell & Reed (WDR) to buy from hold, as well as AllianceBernstein (AB) to hold from sell, at Citigroup.
MetroCorp (MCBI) and American Capital (AGNC) to outperform from market perform at Keefe Bruyette.
International Flavors (IFF) to overweight from equal weight at Barclays.
BioCryst (BCRX) and Southern Company (SO) to buy from neutral at BofA/Merrill.
Bunge (BG) to overweight from neutral at HSBC.

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Green Dot Looks for an IPO Payday

Posted Feb 26th 2010 4:45PM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Next Big Thing, MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), Visa Inc. (V)

Back in the late 1990s, I met Steve Streit at a Starbucks, Inc. (SBUX). Tired of his career in the radio business, he saw an opportunity to use the Internet to change the financial services industry. While the business plan was still somewhat vague -- which is usually the case -- the vision looked spot-on.

Well, his company became Green Dot. And now it has filed to go public.

Green Dot is a leading player in the market for general purpose reloadable prepaid debit cards (GPR). Basically, these allow consumers to spend money on the main payment networks, such as Visa, Inc. (V) or MasterCard Inc. (MA).

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