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• Roth Capital believes Chico's FAS (NYSE: CHS) growth will be back on track given the changes within the merchandise organization and recent infrastructure investments, and initiated shares with a Buy rating and $24 target.

• Pacific Crest believes MetroPCS's (NYSE: PCS) low-cost business model creates opportunities and that its large market focus should drive outperformance, and initiated shares with an Outperform rating.

• JMP Securities believes near-term upside in Federated Investors (NYSE: FII) could be seen with hurricane season and resumed coverage of Federated Investors with an Overweight rating and $178 target.
  

• Pacific Crest believes 2007 is a transition year for Tibco (NASDAQ: TIBX) and started shares with a Sector Perform rating...

• BWS Financial initiated Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) with a Buy rating and $20 target.

• HSBC started Lukoil (OTC: LUKOY) with an Overweight rating.

• Pacific Crest started shares of On Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ONNN) with an Outperform rating and $16 target.

• BMO Capital initiated Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) with an Outperform rating and $18 target.

Analyst initiations: CHS, FII, RENT and TIBX originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Thomas Weisel started Chico's FAS (NYSE: CHS) with a Market Weight rating and $26 target citing near-term mix pressure, lower margin potential and lower square footage growth.

• Thomas Weisel also initiated shares of Cache, Inc (NASDAQ: CACH) with an Overweight rating and $21 target, citing a significant sales opportunity driven by new categories and demographics.

• AG Edwards believes the risk/reward for JP Morgan & Chase Co (NYSE: JPM) is balanced, assuming coverage with a Hold rating.

• Lehman resumed coverage of National City Corp (NYSE: NCC) with an Overweight rating and $41 target...

• Montgomery & Co initiated SiRF Technology Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: SIRF) with a Buy rating and $32 target.

• Merriman initiated shares of Aware, Inc (NASDAQ: AWRE) with a Buy rating.

• Xinhua Finance Media Ltd (NASDAQ: XFML) was started with a Buy rating at W.R. Hambrecht.

• Matrix USA initiated shares of Florida East Coast Industries Inc (NYSE: FLA) with a Strong Sell rating.

Analyst initiations 5-01-07: CACH, CHS, JPM and SIRF originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Prudential started Visicu Inc (NASDAQ: EICU) with an Underweight rating and $7 target and said competitor substitute ICU modules, hesitant customers and patent challenges could impact future sales activity.

• RBC initiated Ciena Corp (NASDAQ: CIEN) with an Outperform rating and $33 target based on improving demand outlook driven by growth in video and data-traffic.

• W.R. Hambrecht initiated shares of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) with a Buy rating and $110 target based on the company's impressive desktop and notebook offering that continues to grow faster than the industry and command higher ASPs, an iPod franchise that dominates the category and represented almost half of total company revenues in the strongest quarter in its history, December 2006, among other things.

• Deutsche Bank initiated Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) with a Buy rating and $46 target. The firm is bullish on cable sector prospects and sees upside from consumer and commercial telecom services and growth in advanced video services.

• RBC started F5 Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) with an Outperform rating and $90 target.

• Stanford initiated HealthSouth Corp (NYSE: HLS) with a Buy rating and $31 target.

• Kenexa Corp (NASDAQ: KNXA) was started at Jefferies with a Hold rating and $36 target.

• Stern Agee initiated Chico's FAS, Inc (NYSE: CHS) with a Buy rating and $26 target.

• JP Morgan initiated Red Hat, Inc (NYSE: RHT) with a Neutral rating.

Analyst initiations 3-09-07: Apple, Ciena and Red Hat initiated today originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.