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FeedPosted May 29th 2009 11:20AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Morgan Stanley (MS), News Corp'B' (NWS), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Burger King Hldgs (BKC), Analyst initiations, Level 3 Communications (LVLT)
Analyst upgrades:
- Keefe Bruyette upgraded Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) to Outperform from market Perform after transferring coverage to a new analyst. The firm expects Morgan to benefit from the pending joint venture with Smith Barney and improvements in its operating environment.
- FBR Capital upgraded Winn-Dixie (NASDAQ: WINN) to Outperform from Market Perform as it believes the company is executing well and shares are cheap at current levels. The firm keeps a $16.50 target on the stock.
- Baird believes Polaris's (NYSE: PII) consensus expectations and valuation are too low and that the company will expand beyond powersports. The firm upgraded shares to Outperform from Neutral and raised their target to $37 from $32.
- J. Crew (NYSE: JCG) was upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Goldman.
- Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) was upgraded to Equal Weight from Underweight at Barclays.
- Global Hunter upgraded Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) to Buy from Neutral.
Continue reading Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: MS, JCG, BKC, LVLT, NWS ...
Posted Mar 9th 2009 9:50AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Wal-Mart (WMT), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Market matters, McDonald's (MCD), AT and T (T), Caterpillar (CAT), Citigroup Inc. (C), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Alcoa Inc (AA), Altria Group (MO), Bank of America (BAC), Verizon Communications (VZ), Freep't McMoRan Copper (FCX), DJIA, Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer identifies the eight Dow components that will become too cheap not to buy. When I arrived at
my worst-case view that the Dow could reach 5320, my first reaction wasn't, "Look out below." It was more like, "Wait a second, how much I would like to buy these stocks at those levels?" Then I started thinking, "What do I do if it gets there and I am not in? Will it stay down there? Is it right to avoid a market that's cut by almost two-thirds in such a short period of time when some companies with really good earnings power might be selling at prices that we might never see again?"
But which ones?
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: What to buy in the Dow
Closing Bell: Dubai sends jitters throughout the market (S, BBY)
Heinz looking good after the second quarter?
Why isn't Bank of America updating its shareholders on CEO situation?
