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FeedPosted Dec 12th 2010 12:30PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Best Buy (BBY), FedEx Corp (FDX), Economic Data
FedEx Corp. (FDX), the world's leading package delivery service and an ostensible bellwether of the U.S. economy, will dance its way onto the earnings stage this week. Also, with the holiday shopping season well underway, Best Buy Co. (BBY) and Discover Financial Services (DFS) are scheduled to offer up their most recent quarterly results.
Here's a closer look at what the analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters are expecting from these three, plus a peek at the week's economic calendar.
Continue reading Week in Preview: FedEx, Best Buy, Discover to Deliver Earnings
Posted Nov 12th 2010 11:30AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Altria Group (MO), Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY), Boeing Co (BA), CIGNA Corp (CI), Analyst Initiations, Eaton Corp (ETN), MetLife Inc. (MET)
Analyst Upgrades
- Goldman upgraded Eaton (ETN) to conviction buy from neutral.
- AECOM Technology (ACM) was upgraded to outperform from neutral at Macquarie.
- Piper Jaffray upgraded Hologic (HOLX), Gen-Probe (GPRO) and Qiagen (QGEN) to overweight from neutral.
- GeoMet (GMET) was upgraded to accumulate from neutral at Global Hunter.
- Accretive Health (AH) was upgraded to outperform from neutral at RW Baird.
- Morgan Stanley upgraded Reinsurance Group (RGA) to overweight from equal weight.
- BofA/Merrill upgraded Clearwire (CLWR) to neutral from underperform.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: BA, BBBY, CI, CLWR, DFS, DLTR, ETN, MET, MO, WSM ...
Posted Aug 2nd 2010 11:20AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Coca-Cola (KO), News Corp'B' (NWS), Texas Instruments (TXN), Analyst Initiations, Genzyme (GENZ)
Analyst Upgrades
- JPMorgan upgraded Coca-Cola (KO) to overweight from neutral due to valuation and expectations that developed market volume should improve. The firm raised its target price for shares to $66.
- BB&T upgraded Nordson (NDSN) to buy from hold and has an $82 price target on the stock. The firm believes certain drivers of Nordson's Advanced Tech unit are becoming more secular vs. cyclical and that the company's EBIT margins can go higher.
- Credit Suisse upgraded Embraer (ERJ) to outperform from underperform, citing the positive announcements from the Famborough Air Show. The firm raised its price target to $37 from $21.
- Universal Health (UHS) was upgraded to outperform from sector perform at RBC Capital.
- Mead Johnson (MJN) was upgraded to conviction buy from buy at Goldman.
- Coventry Health (CVH) was upgraded to outperform from market perform at Leerink.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: ALU, CHL, EXC, GENZ, KO, NDSN, NSW, SJM, TXN ...
Posted Feb 26th 2009 11:15AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Smithfield Foods (SFD), Analyst Initiations, Anglo American (AAUKY)
Analyst upgrades:
- UBS upgraded Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) to Buy from Neutral but lowered its target to $42 from $45 following the solid Q4 report. The firm expects Dollar Tree's cost containment to continue. JP Morgan upgraded shares to Overweight from Neutral on valuation as it believes the recent pullback is overdone and the company set achievable FY09 guidance. The firm has a $43 target on the stock.
- JP Morgan also upgraded Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) to Overweight from Neutral on valuation as they find the stock oversold at current levels.
- KeyBanc upgraded Nordson (NASDAQ: NDSN) to Hold from Underweight based on valuation, strong balance sheet and cost reductions, and a solid track record of execution.
- Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG) was upgraded to Neutral from Underweight at HSBC.
- Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO) was raised to Equal Weight from Underweight at Barclays.
- Carter's (NYSE: CRI) was upgraded at Goldman to Neutral from Sell.
Continue reading Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: DLTR, KWK, IRE, AAUK, JNJ ...
Posted Aug 29th 2008 9:09AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Bad News, Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Intel (INTC), Market Matters, Altria Group (MO), Cramer on BloggingStocks, Technology
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says intra-quarter signs that all was well were far off the mark. Dell (NASDAQ:
DELL) (
Cramer's Take) totally fooled us. Throughout the quarter, we heard rumblings that things were just right.
Instead, Dell gave us a quarter that reminds us that the body language in tech has become meaningless. Never forget that you can only trust these guys on the day they report, and that report -- with its depictions of a slowdown across all geographies -- made me want to go out and pick up some
Altria (NYSE:
MO) (
Cramer's Take).
The Dell report reminds me of
Nordson (NASDAQ:
NDSN) (
Cramer's Take), another company that has made you feel all rosy about the international markets. But with that industrial play, it was only Europe that was bad.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Dell loses its Street cred once again