Posts for Ticker ‘SYY’

Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (BIDU, EQR, FTR, JASO, ERIC, MOT, S, STP, SYY, TWC)

These are this Tuesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this morning from Wall Street research calls:

Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Started as Hold at Kaufman Bros.
Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) Cut to Market Perform at FBR.
Frontier Communications (NYSEL FTR) Cut to Underperform at D.A.Davidson.
JA Solar Holdings Co. (NASDAQ: JASO) Raised to Market Weight at Thomas Weisel.
L.M. Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) Raised to Overweight at HSBC.
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) STarted as Outperform at Bernstein.
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) Cut to Neutral at Pali Research.
Suntech Power (NYSE: STP) Raised to Market Weight at Thomas Weisel.
Sysco Corp. (NYSE: SYY) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) Started as Buy at Needham.

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JON C. OGG

Posted on: December 8, 2009 – 7:54 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,

Top 10 Analyst Calls (CMG, FTO, GS, NTAP, OSG, SBUX, SYY, TK, WRI, YUM)

These are the top 10 analyst calls we have seen early this Wednesday morning from Wall Street:

Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Raised to Outperform at William Blair.
Frontier Oil (FTO) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Goldman Sachs (GS) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Network Appliance (NTAP) Raised to Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.
Overseas Shuipholding (OSG) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Starbucks (SBUX) Cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.
Sysco (SYY) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Teekay (TK) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Weingarten Realty (WRI) Raised to Market Perform at Wachovia.
YUM Brands (YUM) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
JON C. OGG

Posted on: April 15, 2009 – 6:58 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,

The Fallacy of Buffett Takeover Lists (BRK-A, SYY, VFC, DHR, BNI, WFC, COP)

buffett-image2It seems that there is renewed interest in a Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) acquisition strategy for another large takeover.  This has always been on the table, and as we noted in the most recent annual report, Buffett has mentioned an interest.  He even laid out a set of criteria.  But the new list of companies that is being passed around as a potential target list actually is based upon the current numbers rather than on many of these actually being legitimate targets.
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Posted on: March 20, 2009 – 9:09 am in Buffett, Conglomerates, Mergers and Buy Outs, , , , , , ,

Pre-Market Analyst Calls (July 20, 2007)

ADSK cut to Hold at Citigroup.
ALEX cut to Mkt Perform at Wachovia.
ALVR cut to Sector Perform at CIBC.
BMI cut to Neutral at Baird.
CLWR cut to Hold at Jefferies.
CYBS cut to Mkt Perform at JMP Securities.
FFCH raised to Neutral at Sun Trust Robinson Humphrey.
KR cut to Hold at BB&T.
HSY cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.
ITT cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
MAN raised to Buy at B of A.
NUE raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
PFGC cut to Hold at BB&T.
RTSX started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.
SLG raised to Outperform at Wachovia.
STX raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.
SWY cut to Hold at BB&T.
SYY cut to Hold at BB&T.
TRN started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
WLSC cut to Equal Weight at Lehman.
X cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.

Jon C. Ogg
July 20, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

Posted on: July 20, 2007 – 6:28 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , , , ,