Analyst initiations: BNVI, CTCT, SENO and RMDX

Eric Buscemi — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:29:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Initiations

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Bionovo, Constant Contact, Senorx, and RemoteMDx were today's noteworthy initiations:

Merriman initiated Bionovo Inc (NASDAQ: BNVI), with a Buy rating, as they believe shares are undervalued given the company's development pipeline and related intellectual property.
Constant Contact Inc (NASDAQ: CTCT) was initiated with a Market Weight rating at Thomas Weisel. The company was also initiated with a Sector Outperformer and $30 target at CIBC, as they believe the company is well-positioned in the on-demand email marketing segment.
Citigroup initiated Senorx Inc (NASDAQ: SENO) with a Hold rating and $12 target, citing competition concerns and their belief that infrastructure investments could delay profitability.
BWS Financial said RemoteMDx Inc (OTC: RMDX) has been able to secure contracts that should result into larger follow-on orders as the TrackerPAL starts to have a history in real life scenarios. The firm started shares off with a Buy rating and $8.75 target.

OTHER INITIATIONS:

Bear resumed coverage of China Southern Airlines Company Limited (NYSE: ZNH) with an Underperform rating and China Eastern Airlines (NYSE: CEA) with a Peer Perform rating.
Deutsche Bank initiated Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) and Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (NASDAQ: HTCH) with Hold ratings and a $30 target and $26 target.

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Impact of Microsoft's Vista is about to be seen

Eric Buscemi — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:34:00 EST

Filed under: Products and Services, Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL)

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) might finally be on the verge of seeing the adoption of Vista, wrote Arnie Berman, chief technology strategist, at Cowen & Company late last week.

Berman surveyed 283 corporate IT buyers and found 47% of small- and medium-sized businesses will begin deploying Vista by December 31, this is up from 43% in a similar survey completed in February. 31% of larger enterprises plan to start rolling out Vista by December 31, up from 25% in the previous survey.

How to invest in the long-awaited Vista uptake? Play the Microsoft food chain stocks, particularly since most investors have given up on Vista's adoption, indicating this is where investors could get the most bang for the buck. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Micron Technology Inc (NYSE: MU), Berman believes will be beneficiaries of Vista's adoption. Other investment plays include memory chip maker Qimonda AG (NYSE: QI), the drive makers Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) and Western Digital Corporation (NYSE: WDC), and Marvell Technology Group Ltd (NASDAQ: MRVL), a supplier to the drive business.

In our past Intel blogs, the Fly has suggested Intel has capacity in place to start ramping 64 megabyte processors big time, on a scale Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE: AMD) does not possess. Berman points out that Intel's enterprise value/sales ratio relative to AMD is close to an all-time low, meaning Intel is cheap relative to AMD despite AMD's recent poor stock performance.

Nvidia at 19x consensus calendar 2007 results has shown the ability to deliver favorable financial surprises and could provide the solution to the greatest potential bottleneck for Vista adoption, the graphic processors.

Micron is selling close to its $10.91 book value which historically has supported the stock and memory demand will increase with the new operating system.

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