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Analyst Calls: AMTD, BPL, BX, ERIC, FTE, GGP, HCBK, HCN, NE, PPL, TUP ...

Eric Buscemi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:20:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, TD AmeriTrade Holding (AMTD), Analyst Initiations, Blackstone Group L.P (BX), Noble Corporation (NE)

Analyst Upgrades

General Growth (GGP) to outperform from neutral at Credit Suisse.
PPL Corp. (PPL) to outperform from market perform at FBR Capital.
Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK) to neutral from reduce at Nomura.
Hologic (HOLX) to conviction buy from buy at Goldman.
Cognex (CGNX) to overweight from neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Buckeye Partners (BPL) to outperform from market perform at Wells Fargo.
Ericsson (ERIC) and Health Care REIT (HCN) to buy from neutral and Olin (OLN) to neutral from sell at UBS.
Nalco (NLC) to overweight from neutral at JPMorgan.
Watts Water (WTS) to buy from hold at BB&T.
McDermott (MDR) to buy from neutral at Pritchard.

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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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Earnings highlights: Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Bank of New York, Capital One ...

Trey Thoelcke — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:10:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), American Express (AXP), Bank of New York (BK), Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG)

Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) narrowed its net loss in Q2 but not as much as expected.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) posted better-than-expected Q3 results on demand for iPhones and Macs.
Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) reported earnings and revenue that topped expectations.
JDA Software Group Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) shares surged after it reported record results for Q2.
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) lower Q4 results still topped earnings estimates, but shares fell.
VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) unimpressive Q2 results still managed to beat analysts' low expectations.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Q2 profit was flat year over year and revenue and cash flow declined.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Toxic banks will keep raising capital

Jim Cramer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:20:00 EST

Filed under: Industry, Market Matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Cramer on BloggingStocks

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says they won't fail, but they can't be bought yet.

What do the words "we have enough capital" mean? It means get ready for an offering. Merrill (NYSE: MER) (Cramer's Take) last week said they had enough capital. So did Citigroup (NYSE: C) (Cramer's Take). Of course they left themselves some sort of out. Merrill said it had enough "equity" capital, so it did a huge preferred deal. Citigroup stressed that it had more than it needed, but they just made you look like a moron if you bought stock the other day at $27.

But if you did buy, I have no sympathy for you, none whatsoever. I have no sympathy for you because I have said over and over again that as bank stocks go up, they must issue equity until housing stops going down. Every uptick must be met by equity if the downcycle is elongated.

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Analyst upgrades: F, AMD, BRCD, NFLX and EQIX

Eric Buscemi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:10:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Ford Motor (F), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD)

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Ford Motor Co, Advanced Micro Devices, Brocade, Netflix and Equinix were today's noteworthy upgrades:

Bear Stearns believes Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) could also benefit from similar deal to General Motors Corporation's (NYSE: GM) potential VEBA healthcare restructuring with the UAW. The firm upgraded Ford shares to Outperform from Peer Perform.
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) was upgraded to Neutral from Underweight at JP Morgan. The firm expects AMD's Barcelona server chip will help close the gap vs. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC).
Citigroup upgraded shares of Brocade Communications Systems (NASDAQ: BRCD) to Buy from Hold and added the stock to their Global Tech Conviction List on expectations for market share gains and margin upside in 2008.
Thomas Weisel upgraded shares of Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) to Overweight from Market Weight, citing reduced pressure from competitor Blockbuster Inc (NYSE: BBI), which could lead to upside in subscribers.
Needham upgraded shares of Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) to Buy from Hold to reflect improving fundamentals and potential upside from the IXEurope acquisition.

OTHER UPGRADES:

UBS upgraded shares of Sun Healthcare Group (NASDAQ: SUNH) and CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) to Buy from Neutral.
Susquehanna raised Tween Brands Inc (NYSE: TWB) to Positive from Neutral.
FTN Midwest upgraded Hudson City Bancorp (NASDAQ: HCBK) to Buy from Neutral.
Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE) was upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Wachovia.

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