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Analyst Calls: ANF, CA, HBAN, MSFT, NTAP, NVDA, OWW, ORCL, RHT ...

Eric Buscemi — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Microsoft (MSFT), CA Inc (CA), Oracle Corp (ORCL), Red Hat Inc (RHT), Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF), Analyst Initiations, Suntech Power Hldgs ADS (STP)

Analyst Upgrades

Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) to positive from neutral at Susquehanna.
tw telecom (TWTC) to outperform from neutral at Cowen.
Agree Realty (ADC) to buy from neutral at Janney Capital.
Millicom (MICC) to buy from neutral at Nomura.
BioMed Realty (BMR) to outperform from market perform at FBR Capital.
Realty Income (O) to buy from neutral at BofA/Merrill.

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Huntington Bancshares: Buy the Pullback?

Steven Mallas — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:30:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports

Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) was down 2% to $6.86 as of this writing. Earlier today, the company reported results for the fourth quarter. Should we be interested in the stock?

According to Bloomberg, net income came in at 5 cents per share. Talk about a change in fortune: last year at this time, a loss of 56 cents per share had been booked. Unfortunately, Wall Street was hoping for 8 cents per share. It should be noted, though, that the profit stat was negatively affected by 7 cents per share because management made a repayment to the United States government for use of monies involved in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (otherwise known as the famous TARP initiative).

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Week in Preview: Banks in the Earnings Spotlight

Trey Thoelcke — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Wells Fargo (WFC)

The earnings season ramps up this week. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters foresee strong reports from such big names as Apple (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), IBM (IBM), General Electric (GE), Google (GOOG), Schlumberger (SLB) and Southwest Airlines (LUV). And fast on the heels of last week's big earnings beat from JPMorgan Chase (JPM), there will be plenty more results from the financial sector to peruse this week.

Among the financials expected to post double-digit earnings growth this week are Capital One Financial (COF), Morgan Stanley (MS), SLM Corp. (SLM) and U.S. Bancorp (USB), but the week's biggest earnings winner may be Wells Fargo (WFC).

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Analyst Calls: AA, AAPL, ATHR, BKS, CL, CLX, EL, HBAN, NCR, NVDA, XRTX ...

Eric Buscemi — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:30:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Apple Inc (AAPL), Estee Lauder (EL), Alcoa Inc (AA), Avon Products (AVP), Clorox Co (CLX), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Analyst Initiations

Analyst Upgrades

TCF Financial (TCB) to buy from hold at Deutsche Bank.
Exelon (EXC) to market perform from underperform at Wells Fargo.
Nvidia (NVDA) and Boyd Gaming (BYD) upgraded to overweight from equal weight at Barclays.
Estee Lauder (EL) to buy from neutral at UBS.
Webster Financial (WBS) to buy from hold at Jefferies.
Skilled Healthcare (SKH) to outperform from market perform at Morgan Keegan.
Acorda Therapeutics (ACOR) to outperform from market perform at Leerink.
NCR Corp. (NCR) to outperform from neutral at Wedbush.
Barnes & Noble (BKS) to neutral from underperform and Pioneer Natural (PXD) to outperform from neutral at Credit Suisse.
Autodesk (ADSK) to buy from neutral at Goldman.

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Closing Bell: Bulls Currents Still Mixed (APSG, RTN, MI, BMO, HBAN, CHK)

Jon Ogg — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Raytheon Company (RTN)

This was one of those pre-holiday trading sessions where the closing bell outcome depended on which index you looked at. Tech stocks were up with the S&P 500, but the DJIA was a mixed bag throughout the trading day. This appears to have been a 3-year high for NASDAQ and a 2-year high for the S&P. As far as the holiday-shortened week is concerned, today may be a blueprint for trading here in the U.S. and abroad.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow Jones 11,478.13 -13.78 (-0.12%)
S&P 500 1,247.08 +3.17 (0.25%)
Nasdaq 2,649.56 +6.59 (0.25%)

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Analyst Calls: AEO, ARG, AXP, FISV, HAL, HBAN, HOLX, ITMN, MFE, PXC ...

Eric Buscemi — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:30:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Halliburton (HAL), American Express (AXP), Analyst Initiations, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO)

Analyst Upgrades

InterMune (ITMN) to outperform from neutral at RW Baird.
Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) to buy from neutral at BofA/Merill.
Halliburton (HAL), Cloud Peak Energy (CLD), Patriot Coal (PCX) and Consol Energy (CNX) to outperform from market perform at FBR Capital.
Post Properties (PPS) to equal weight from underweight at Barclays.
Airgas (ARG) to overweight from neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Hologic (HOLX) to top pick from sector perform and Sunesis Pharma (SNSS) to outperform from sector perform at RBC Capital.

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Closing Bell: From Flash-Crash to Flash Dance (BSX, CSCO, MS, GS, BIDU, HBAN, NBG)

Jon Ogg — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Cisco Systems (CSCO), Boston Scientific (BSX), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS)

Trade deficits, record government budget deficits... Humbug! Today was a day where bad news did not matter in the broader sense. Overseas markets were up, but the U.S. was where the action was.

Here were the unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 10,896.91 +148.65 (1.38%)
S&P 500 1,171.67 +15.88 (1.37%)
Nasdaq 2,425.02 +49.71 (2.09%)

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Earnings Highlights: Colgate, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Kimberley-Clark, Starbucks ...

Trey Thoelcke — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:10:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, eBay (EBAY), Starbucks (SBUX), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Bank of America (BAC), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), TD AmeriTrade Holding (AMTD), Kimberly-Clark (KMB)

Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage on BloggingStocks:

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) shares declined despite an earnings beat and a positive outlook
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) reported that its Q4 loss widened more than expected by Wall Street.
Capital One Financial Corp. (COF) reported better-than-expected earnings but shares declined.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) is seen as on-track to record double-digit earnings growth in 2010.
Cree Inc. (CREE) strong earnings and revenue growth sent shares to a new 52-week high.

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The Week in Preview: Q4 Earnings Expectations for the Financial Sector

Trey Thoelcke — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Citigroup Inc. (C), American Express (AXP), Bank of America (BAC), Bank of New York (BK), BB and T (BBT), Comerica Inc (CMA), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Wells Fargo (WFC), SLM Corp (SLM), U.S. Bancorp (USB)

Last week, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) led off the coming parade of earnings from the big banks when it reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year earnings, though its revenue fell short of estimates.

Plenty more earnings from the financial sector are due out this week. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters anticipate fourth-quarter earnings growth from American Express Co. (AXP), Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BK), Hudson City Bancorp Inc. (HCBK), SLM Corp. (SLM) and US Bancorp (USB).

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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: CBRL, GAME, LO, NKE, RAIL, TGT, WMT ...

Eric Buscemi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp. (TGT), NIKE, Inc'B' (NKE), Analyst Initiations

Analyst upgrades:

Kaufman Bros. upgraded American Superconductor (NASDAQ: AMSC) to Buy from Hold as it believes the follow-on contract from Sinovel has positive implications. The firm has a $36 price target on shares.
Goldman upgraded Nike (NYSE: NKE) to Buy from Neutral citing valuation, visible long-term growth, and signs of sales stabilization. The firm has a $75 target on shares.
Deutsche Bank upgraded Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ: HBAN) to Buy from Hold on valuation following the recent underperformance. The firm raised its target on shares to $5.50 from $4.
Novartis (NYSE: NVS) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.
eHealth (NASDAQ: EHTH) was upgraded to Buy from Accumulate at ThinkEquity.
China Precision Steel (NASDAQ: CPSL) was upgraded to Hold from Sell at Roth Capital.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Worse after Lehman? Are you kidding me?

Jim Cramer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST

Filed under: Market Matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Regions Financial (RF), Bank of America (BAC), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Wells Fargo (WFC), Cramer on BloggingStocks, Financial Crisis

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says everyone in the trenches knows we're better off now -- only the academics disagree.

Am I nuts, or am I missing something? One year after the financial system was brought to its knees, we are back in the mid-9000s and we have taken off the table massive bank risk and are well on our way to recovery.

I keep listening to people like Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz say the banking system is worse off now and I say to myself, "That's just stupid and wrong and anti-empirical and actually just silly." Anyone who knows what's really going on has to feel this way. And where was Stiglitz when some of us were running around trying to save things?

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Mortgage meltdown is history

Jim Cramer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EST

Filed under: Market Matters, Regions Financial (RF), Cramer on BloggingStocks, Financial Crisis

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The Street.com's Jim Cramer says that now it is all about who is going to take advantage of the opportunities.

Did anyone listen to Bill Isaac yesterday? Did anyone listen to the man that was instrumental in solving the banking crisis of 1987-1991 when he was on "Squawk Box?"

I don't think they did. If they did, they wouldn't be nearly as fretful about housing or the bank stocks or the mortgage problem or the toxic bonds as they seem to be, because Isaac talked about 1,600 banks that had to be closed and about how there simply was no place to put the bad assets at all. He talked about major banks collapsing day after day after day, the largest banks in the most important regions in the country. He talked about how hardly a day went by when a bank that they were not prepared to deal with went under because of mortgage loans.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: From froth to investible

Jim Cramer — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:10:00 EST

Filed under: Market Matters, Regions Financial (RF), CIT Group (CIT), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks, E*TRADE (ETFC)

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says many stocks, considered frothy at one time, have turned into good turnaround stories.

Here's still one more version of a short-seller's nightmare. What happens when froth turns to investible? What happens when you see behavior that clearly indicates froth and then, somehow, the fundamentals change, and the stock takes off?

We have seen that recently in so many situations that it is pretty dazzling. It was one thing to see Genworth (NYSE: GNW) (Cramer's Take) back from the dead on its own.

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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: THOO, VMW, VOD, BKC, CVX, HBAN ...

Eric Buscemi — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Yahoo! (YHOO), Chevron Corp (CVX), Burger King Hldgs (BKC), Analyst Initiations, Unilever ADR (UL)

Analyst upgrades:

Jefferies upgraded VMware (NYSE: VMW) to Hold from Underperform on expectations June quarter revenue will be inline-to-slightly-better and negative revisions to September quarter revenue will not be as great as in the most recent two quarters. The firm raised its target on shares to $25 from $20.
Citigroup upgraded Blue Nile (NASDAQ: NILE) to Buy from Hold on valuation following the recent pullback and believes expectations for Q2 are reasonable. The firm has a $50 price target on the stock.
FBR Capital upgraded Bronco Drilling (NASDAQ: BRNC) to Market Perform from Underperform on valuation as it believes negative sentiment will ease. The firm raised its target on shares to $4 from $3.
Unilever (NYSE: UL) was upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JP Morgan.
Posco (NYSE: PKX) was upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
Gol Linhas Aereas (NYSE: GOL) was upgraded to Buy from Underperform at BofA/Merrill.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Who needs the PPIP?

Jim Cramer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:00:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Market Matters, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Wells Fargo (WFC), Politics, Cramer on BloggingStocks, Financial Crisis

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says now that most banks have raised capital, maybe it'll help the FDIC dole out assets of the losers.

Can I just say that I don't care about the public-private investment program? It was a good idea before the stress tests and would have been excellent if all of these banks hadn't raised capital.

But they have.

So now we have to struggle with the notion of the program's relevance. It can be used as a cleanup program for some companies that desperately want to sell down assets to clean up their books, but with the capital raises, none of the major banks should be interested in selling into it.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Forget the small banks

Jim Cramer — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:50:00 EST

Filed under: Market Matters, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Regions Financial (RF), Wells Fargo (WFC), Cramer on BloggingStocks, U.S. Bancorp (USB), Financial Crisis

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says he'd sell the regionals, but this group is mired till housing sales tick up.

Is it SunTrust (NYSE: STI) (Cramer's Take)? Maybe it is Key (NYSE: KEY) (Cramer's Take)? How about Regions (NYSE: RF) (Cramer's Take)? Maybe Huntington (NASDAQ: HBAN) (Cramer's Take)? Fifth Third (NASDAQ: FITB) (Cramer's Take)?

Oh, who cares? Frankly these are all small, nothing banks that you could short and probably do pretty well with, if you can borrow the shares. None of them is really important, and incredibly, all of them can easily be made delicious morsels for a JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) (Cramer's Take) or a U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) (Cramer's Take) or a Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) (Cramer's Take) without a lot of money spent by Treasury.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: The consensus view looks too gloomy

Jim Cramer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:00:00 EST

Filed under: Market Matters, General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Cramer on BloggingStocks

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says that before you buy into the conventional wisdom, you should consider these counter-arguments.

Sometimes it pays to know the consensus thinking of the big boys, the smart boys who trade every day. So let's detail it before we critique it:

1. Someday the companies that report bad earnings are going to start going down again. This is the Parker Hannifin (NYSE: PH) (Cramer's Take) dilemma I keep alluding to, a company that skyrockets on terrible numbers no matter how you cut it.

2. The market will now recognize that the stress test is a big joke, everything's a phony, and the banks will fold again. Roubini's right; Geithner's a lightweight.

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Earnings reports and the 'hole' truth

Todd Harrison — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:20:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Recession, Financial Crisis

This post was written by Minyanville contributor Minyan Peter.

I realize that these are very difficult times for financial services companies, but I learned a long time ago that the only route to progress is dealing with reality.

With that as background I would offer to any number of regional banks who reported earnings this week that the correct disclosure when writing off goodwill is not "This is a non-cash charge which should be ignored because it does not effect cash or regulatory capital" but "In hindsight we overpaid for an acquisition and based on lower forecast earnings from this business in the future, we need to write down most of the purchase price."

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Five stocks under $5 to consider

Timothy Sykes — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:00:00 EST

Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Bargain Stocks, Stocks to Buy, Stocks to Sell

My core investment strategy of trading strong penny stocks (which earned me 197% last year) has clearly benefited from the overall market's strength of the past few days. While I'm looking at these following five names, I'm not rushing into them just yet. Each has a different story to tell:

Ferro Corp. (NYSE: FOE), a struggling industrial materials maker whose stock price has plummeted in the past six months from the $20s to $1, basically doubled to $2 after the company amended its financing agreement -- meaning its lenders gave it some breathing room.

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Stock picks and pans for troubled times: CAT, MON, EL, ISRG, NTT, RIG, SIRI ...

Melly Alazraki — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST

Filed under: Dell (DELL), Ford Motor (F), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Estee Lauder (EL), Caterpillar (CAT), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Avon Products (AVP), Costco Wholesale (COST), U.S. Steel (X), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Stocks to Buy, Stocks to Sell, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG)

Amazingly, this week is about to end with stock markets logging gains. Not grim earnings, not glum retail sales, not dismal car sales, nor even weaker-than-expected jobs report seemed able to put a dent in investors' hopes the stimulus bill would pass.

And it's not even the Dow stocks that are leading the advances. As of noon today, the Dow was up about 3% for the week, while the S&P 500 gained about 4.5% and the Nasdaq composite soared some 7%. If you're sorry you didn't take part of this rally, and think perhaps there's more to come after the Senate finally approves the stimulus plan, then BloggingStocks contributors have some ideas for long-term holdings, as well as a few warnings:

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