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Analyst Upgrades

  • Goldman upgraded Citigroup (C) to conviction buy from buy, Principal Financial (PFG) to buy from neutral, and Stancorp Financial (SFG) and Hartford Financial (HIG) to neutral from sell.
  • JetBlue (JBLU) was upgraded to overweight from neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Barclays upgraded Royal Caribbean (RCL) and Carnival (CCL) upgraded to overweight from equal weight.
  • Hollysys Automation (HOLI) was upgraded to buy from hold at Roth Capital.
  • RBC Capital upgraded Alliance Data Systems (ADS) to outperform from sector perform.
  • RRI Energy (RRI) was upgraded to buy from hold at Citigroup.

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Analyst upgrades:
  • Barclays believes Procter & Gamble's (NYSE: PG) portfolio mix provides better leverage to stabilizing macro trends. The firm upgraded shares to Overweight from Equal weight and raised its target to $60 from $56. Note the firm downgraded Colgate (NYSE: CL) to Equal Weight from Overweight.
  • Deutsche Bank upgraded McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) to Buy from Hold as it finds the risk/reward on shares compelling at current levels and sees upcoming catalysts from McCafe and easing commodity pressures. The firm raised its target price to $65 from $60.
  • FBR Capital upgraded Talbots (NYSE: TLB) to Outperform from Market Perform to reflect an attractive risk/reward, reduced risk of a bankruptcy, and merchandise improvements. The firm raised its target price to $4 from $2.
  • Nokia (NYSE: NOK) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Deutsche Bank.
  • Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) was upgraded to Neutral from Underperform at Baird.

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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: PG, MCD, TLB, CL, JTX, HD, IPCM, MYRG and NFLX originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 20 May 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MOST NOTEWORTHY: Microsoft, IPC The Hospitalist Co and DuPont were today's noteworthy initiations:
  • Jefferies believes Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) bid for Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and more conciliatory tone towards regulators signals a shift in strategy from defense to offense. The firm started shares with a Buy rating and $33 target.
  • Wachovia believes IPC The Hospitalist (NASDAQ: IPCM) is well-positioned to gain share in the fragmented hospitalist market given its experienced management team, operating history, and proven track-record; shares were initiated with an Outperform rating at Wachovia and with an Outperform rating and $27 target at Credit Suisse.
  • DuPont (NYSE: DD) was initiated with an Outperform rating and $57 target at Credit Suisse, as they believe the company's number two seed position in North America looks secure.
OTHER INITIATIONS:
  • B. Riley initiated VASCO Data Security (NASDAQ: VDSI) with a Buy rating and $18 target.
  • Morgan Stanley initiated Liberty Entertainment (NASDAQ: LMDIA) with an Overweight rating; shares were also initiated with an Outperform rating at Wachovia.
  • Credit Suisse added shares of Elan Corp (NYSE: ELN) to its Focus List and started shares with an Outperform rating.

Analyst initiations: Microsoft, DuPont, IPC The Hospitalist Co. originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MOST NOTEWORTHY: PennantPark (PNNT), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and several insurance companies were today's noteworthy initiations:
  • PennantPark Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: PNNT) was initiated with a Buy rating and $17 target at Jefferies. The finds shares compelling given the potential dividend growth and book multiple expansion. PennantPark was also initiated at Keefe Bruyette with an Outperform rating and $18 target, at Banc of America with a Buy rating and $16 target and at Friedman Billings with an Outperform rating and $17 target.
  • Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) was initiated at Bear Stearns with a Peer Perform rating and at Cathay Financial with an Outperform rating.
  • Banc of America initiated RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: RNR) with a Buy rating and Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: MRH) and IPC Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: IPCR) with Neutral ratings.
OTHER INITIATIONS:
Analyst summaries provided by TheFlyOnTheWall.com (subscription required).

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There were weekend reports out of The Sunday Telegraph stating that private equity firms are working to make a buyout offer for Time Warner's (TWX) British magazine unit called IPC.

The Telegraph article even states: A senior executive at one private equity group in the UK said yesterday: "There is a lot of attention being paid to IPC. People are seriously running the numbers."

The price tag for the IPC unit is said to be near $1.5 billion Pounds, or roughly $2.9 billion U.S. dollars.

IPC has such magazines such as Marie Claire, In Style, Loaded, Nuts, NME and Wallpaper. While this unit was not one of the ones officially put up for sale, Time Warner has already shown its plans for restructuring and focusing on core operations that will result in the sale of 18 magazines in the US.

The private equity groups that are said to be the most likely are Blackstone, Permira, Cinven, Carlyle and CVC. Back on September 20, there was an article in the New York Post stating that some 28 parties were interested in Time Warner's magazines unit.

One interesting angle of the private equity group bidding is that this may set the bar higher for the sale of Time Warner's non-core magazine operations in the US that it has already put in motion.

This potential UK sale of IPC could even have some indirect implications for its AOL U.K. unit, although that may be taking this situation one step further than the intent of the news over the weekend.

Is the Time Warner sale of IPC in the works for private equity buyers, too? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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