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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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U.S. Stock Futures Up, Oil Rises Above $100 Per Barrel

Jason Raznick — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:30:00 EST

Filed under: Before the Bell, Earnings Reports, Costco Wholesale (COST), Staples Inc (SPLS), Economic Data

U.S. stock futures are higher Wednesday morning as investors await labor market data. Crude oil traded above $100 a barrel. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 27 points to 12,049.00 and futures on the S&P 500 stock index gained 3.6 points to 1,304.70. Nasdaq 100 futures gained 5.75 points to 2,317.25.

The blue-chip Dow index dropped 1.38% to close at 12,058 on Tuesday.

After the opening bell, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to present a monetary policy report to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee. The Fed's Beige Book will be released at 2 p.m. ET.

Costco Wholesale (COST) reported Q2 EPS of 79 cents, matching analysts expectations. Costco reported Q2 revenue of $20.88 million, versus the consensus of $20.54 billion. The wholesaler reported a 7% rise in its Q2 same-store sales.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Lots of stocks still haven't fallen enough

Jim Cramer — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:03:00 EST

Filed under: Market Matters, Freep't McMoRan Copper (FCX), Stocks to Sell, Cramer on BloggingStocks

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the sellers are in control, and without dividend protection, we have no floor.

The bad stuff is in the market. It just has to get more in. That's all. That's the conclusion you have to reach when you see companies like Terex (NYSE: TEX) (Cramer's Take), which is valued at only a billion and a half dollars, or Joy Global (NASDAQ: JOYG) (Cramer's Take) at $2 billion and change or McDermott (NYSE: MDR) (Cramer's Take) at $3 billion.

In other words, forget about the stock prices. They are almost all absurd unless we are headed into a recession of such magnitude that companies start showing severe losses in the first quarter. Think about the market cap size. If Terex, which is actually a pretty good machinery company, can sell at a billion and a half dollars -- about the price that some acquisitive company might have paid for a division of Terex a year ago -- why can't it sell at $1 billion? How about $800 million? What's to stop it? The sellers at this point obviously don't even care about it, not one bit. They just want money. The buyers have had their heads twisted off and don't want anything more to do with it. No one wants to recommend it because the estimates are too high. And without a dividend, it has no protection; besides, people might perceive that the dividend can't be paid -- a la Freeport (NYSE: FCX) (Cramer's Take) -- and sell it anyway.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Fluor shows the power of execution

Jim Cramer — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:00 EST

Filed under: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Market Matters, International Business Machines (IBM), Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says this report highlighted where the success lies in this market: energy and petroleum.

Fluor's (NYSE: FLR) (Cramer's Take) a monster. It shows you that what has hurt the other companies, particularly Chicago Bridge & Iron (NYSE: CBI) (Cramer's Take), is pure execution.

This gigantic beat also serves to remind us of the big dichotomy. You are either in the energy and petroleum products game or you are in a lot of games that don't work.

It's not easy for these companies, some of which have lived off the duress of state and local governments, including Shaw (NYSE: SGR) (Cramer's Take) and to a certain extent Aecom (NYSE: ACM) (Cramer's Take) and URS (NYSE: URS) (Cramer's Take), to become oil-and-gas plays.

The only ones that have transcended it beside Fluor are Foster Wheeler (NASDAQ: FWLT) (Cramer's Take) and Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC) (Cramer's Take), and the only reason you would really know that is longevity. I remember in the early 1980s when FLR and then FWC would compete directly for all of the huge projects after the second oil shock.

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Analyst upgrades: FLR, FWRD and MDR

Eric Buscemi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:00:00 EST

Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Oracle Corp (ORCL), Tyson Foods'A' (TSN)

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Fluor, Forward Air and McDermott were today's noteworthy upgrades:

Citigroup upgraded shares of Fluor (NYSE: FLR) to Buy from Hold to reflect the company's strong performance and backlog in Q4 and raised their target to $190.50 from $158.
Baird upgraded Forward Air (NASDAQ: FWRD) to Outperform from Neutral citing near-term growth initiatives that are gaining traction.
Citigroup also upgraded shares of McDermott (NYSE: MDR) to Buy from Hold to reflect the company's strong Q4 performance and rising commodity prices.

OTHER UPGRADES:

RBC Capital upgraded Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) and ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) to Top Pick from Outperform.
Credit Suisse raised China Unicom (NYSE: CHU) to Outperform from Neutral.
Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) were upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Merrill Lynch.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: We can't have major lenders fail

Jim Cramer — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:24:00 EST

Filed under: Bad News, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Morgan Stanley (MS), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Washington Mutual (WM), Federal Reserve, Cramer on BloggingStocks

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says without more cuts, more bleak days and a reversion to 1990 are ahead.

Yeah, you don't need me to know it is bad. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) (Cramer's Take) said the wrong thing about financial services Wednesday night, certainly off message for Mr. Chambers. It would be one thing if the stock hadn't run, it has. Now it must go lower, even though it really wasn't that bad. It had been gunned, though, and everyone I know is hiding in tech.

I didn't like the revenue number from McDermott (NYSE: MDR) (Cramer's Take), and that's going to hurt the infra group. Someone's going to say that MDR could be the beginning of the end of the Shaw (NYSE: SGR)/Foster-Wheeler (NASDAQ: FWLT) move.

But in the end, it is the same thing it always is: mortgages. AIG (NYSE AIG) (Cramer's Take), after the bell Wednesday, is a black hole. Who the heck knows what they really have? Maybe they will even tell us.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) (Cramer's Take) wasn't any worse than the papers hinted, but they said it would get worse. Thanks!

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Infrastructure stocks grab market's sweet spot

Jim Cramer — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:52:00 EST

Filed under: Market Matters, Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks

Jim Cramer says these four infrastructure stocks can keep running thanks to their market caps.

What is the real lure of infrastructure? How can an Aecom (NYSE: ACM) (Cramer's Take) or a KBR (NYSE: KBR) (Cramer's Take) or a Foster-Wheeler (NASDAQ: FWLT) (Cramer's Take) or a McDermott (NYSE: MDR) (Cramer's Take) keep going higher and higher and higher?

The secret is market cap. These are all the functional equivalent of small- or mid-cap stocks. Most of their capitalizations are in the $5 billion to $10 billion range and that's just not enough size to make a difference to the average hedge fund or mutual fund manager unless he or she takes a monster positioning the name.

Consider the case of personal fave Foster Wheeler. Despite being up 247% year-over-year and 143% this year alone, this stock still is not a $10 billion stock. (Need I remind you that most stocks that are large cap are over $100 billion?)

Yet the orders keep coming in to the company, and the business of building plants, once horribly cyclical, has turned secular because of the worldwide power shortage.

That theme, the best theme over the next few years, can best be played by the infra group. But the infra group all together doesn't amount to anywhere near $100 billion.

That means the move is still on; it means that it may be barely done.

It means they all can still go higher and remain the best place to be once the market inevitably sells off again.

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Jim Cramer is a director and co-founder of TheStreet.com. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet.com's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO. At the time of publication, Cramer had no positions in stocks mentioned.

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Analyst initiations: AMD, DGX, NWA and ODFL

Kevin Shult — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:42:00 EST

Filed under: Before the Bell, Analyst Reports, Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Analyst Initiations, Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Stocks to Buy, Stocks to Sell

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Old Dominion Freight (ODFL), Jamba (JMBA), AMD (AMD), Orbitz Worldwide (OWW) and Quest Diagnostics (DGX) were today's notable initiations:

Baird is positive on Old Dominion's (NASDAQ: ODFL) growth opportunities, valuation, 2008 improving truck fundamentals, and a potentially seasonally stronger Q4, starting shares with an Overweight rating and $36 target.

Merriman initiated Jamba (NASDAQ: JMBA) with a Buy rating, as the company aggressively expands its store base beyond California.

BMO Capital believes AMD (NYSE: AMD) may lose the Intel platform integrated graphics market, and sizeable Intel platform discrete graphics market share. The firm initiated AMD shares with an Underperform rating and $10 target.

Soleil has concerns regarding Orbitz Worldwide's (NYSE: OWW) decelerating growth and poorer business mix vs. competitors and started shares with a Hold rating and $13 target.

Credit Suisse initiated Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) with a Neutral rating and $61 target, citing the recent UnitedHealth (UNH) contract loss, slowing growth, and valuation for its Neutral rating...

OTHER INITIATIONS:

McDermott (NYSE: MDR) and Capella Education (NASDAQ: CPLA) were initiated with Buy ratings at Citigroup.

JMP Securities started ShoreTel (NASDAQ: SHOR) with a Market Outperform rating.

Credit Suisse initiated LabCorp (NYSE: LH) with an Outperform rating.

FTN Midwest started Northwest Airlines (NYSE: NWA) with a Buy rating.

Analyst summaries provided by TheFlyOnTheWall.com (subscription required).

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