Posts for Ticker ‘ABB’

Top Analyst Downgrades (ABB, MT, BDK, BWA, GR, KR, MHS, SNDA)

These are this Thursday morning’s top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls from Wall Street firms:

ABB (ABB) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
ArcelorMittal (MT) Cut to Hold at Societe Generale,
Black & Decker (BDK) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
Borg Warner (BWA) Cut to Neutral at KeyBanc.
Goodrich (GR) Cut to Buy from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.
Kroger (KR) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
Medco Health (MHS) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Shanda (SNDA) Cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.

JON C. OGG

Top Analyst Downgrades (ABB, AKS, CME, ERIC, HMC, NOK, SKH)

These are the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Friday morning with more than two hours until the market opens:

ABB (ABB) Started as Reduce at Nomura.
AK Steel (AKS) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
CME (CME) Started as Sell at RBS.
Ericsson (ERIC) Cut to Underweight at Barclays.
Honda Motor (HMC) Cut to Equal-Weight at Barclays.
Nokia (NOK) Cut to Equal Weight at Barclays.
Skilled Healthcare (SKH) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.

JON C. OGG

Top10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ABB, APD, BP, BRCD, NAT, OSG, OVTI, TEVA, TRMB, WBS)

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades and downgrades that are independent of earnings news from Wall Street this Thursday morning:

ABB (ABB) Cut to Hold at Societe Generale.
Air Products (APD) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
BP plc (BP) Raised to Buy at RBS.
Brocade Communications Systems (BRCD) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
Nordic American Tanker (NAT) Cut to Sell at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Overseas Shipholding (OSG) Cut to Hold at Cantor Fitzgerald.
OmniVision (OVTI) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Teva (TEVA) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Trimble Navigation (TRMB) Raised to Outperform at William Blair.
Webster Financial (WBS) Cut to Underperform at FBR.

JON C. OGG

Top Analyst Calls (ABB, ABX, BBY, COST, HD, KSS, LOW, PAAS, UNH)

money-stack-image35These are some of the broad upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street analysts that we have seen this Tuesday morning:

  • ABB (ABB) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
  • Barrick Gold (ABX) Raised to Outperform at CIBC.
  • Best Buy (BBY) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Costco (COST) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Home Depot (HD) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Kohl’s (KSS) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Lowe’s (LOW) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Pan American (PAAS) Raised to Outperform at CIBC.
  • UnitedHealth (UNH) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein.

JON C. OGG

Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (ABB, BCS, CPO, CYNO, FFIV, GG, HMA, HBC, MBT, NWS, TRI, VIA, VIP)

Burning_money_picThese are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades we have seen early this Friday morning:

  • ABB (ABB) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
  • Barclays (BCS) Cut to Sell at RBS.
  • Corn Products (CPO) Cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.
  • Cynosure (CYNO) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
  • F5 Networks (FFIV) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
  • Goldcorp (GG) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Health Management (HMA) Cut to underweight at Barclays.
  • HSBC (HBC) Cut to Sell at RBS.
  • Mobile TeleSystems (MBT) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
  • News Corp. (NWS) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
  • Thomson Reuters (TRI) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Viacom (VIA) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
  • Vimpelcom (VIP) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.

Jon C. Ogg
January 16, 2009

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ABB, CAH, EV, FAST, GE, MMC, PETM, SPW, V)

These are not the only analyst calls being seen this Monday in pre-market hours, but these are the top calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on so far this morning:

  • ABB (NYSE: ABB) cut to Equalweight From Overweight at Lehman.
  • Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) removed from Conviction Buy List but maintained Buy at Goldman Sachs.
  • Eaton Vance (NYSE: EV) Raised to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan.
  • Fastenal (NASDAQ: FAST) Cut to Neutral from Buy at Piper Jaffray.
  • General Electric (NYSE: GE) downgraded to Perform from Outperform at Oppenheimer; cut to Peer Perform from outperform at Bear Stearns.
  • Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC) Raised to Outperform at KBW.
  • PETsMART (NASDAQ: PETM) raised to Buy from Neutral at Banc of America.
  • SPX Corp (NYSE: SPW) cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
  • Visa (NYSE: V) started as Outperform at KBW.

Jon C. Ogg
April 14, 2008

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ABB, AMLN, ARNA, BP, EFII, MET, NVDA, LSI, NETL, XLNX, STO, TOT, WFC)

These are not the only impact analyst calls this morning, but these are the top calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on:

  • ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) downgraded to SELL from Hold at Citigroup.
  • Amylin Pharma (NASDAQ:AMLN) started as Outperform at Robert Baird.
  • Arena Pharamaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARNA) raised to Buy from Neutral at Banc of America.
  • BP plc (NYSE: BP) downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight at Lehman Brothers.
  • Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ:EFII) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Banc of America.
  • Metlife (NYSE: MET) raised to Outperform from Market Perform at Bernstein.
  • NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), LSI (NYSE: LSI), NetLogic (NASDAQ:NETL) and Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX) all downgraded to HOLD from Buy at Deutsche Bank.
  • StatoilHydro (NYSE: STO) raised to Outperform from neutral at Credit Suisse.
  • Total SA (NYSE: TOT) downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Credits Suisse.
  • Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) downgraded to Underperform from Market Perform at FBR.

Jon C. Ogg
January 15, 2008

Backward & Forward, Cramer In 2007 To 2008

2007 was one volatile year and for now it appears that will be the norm for at least the start of 2008.  Everyone’s favorite market pundit or least liked pundit is obviously Jim Cramer.  If you love Cramer or can’t stand him it really doesn’t matter.  He signed a new multi-year deal with CNBC recently.  Here are some of his major calls this year that will still be referred to in 2008:

Here were Cramer’s TOP 9 STOCKS FOR 2007, with a call broken down for each one.  Borat would say HI FIVE on some and NOT SO NICE on others, as would be expected.  Cramer’s 14,582 year-end DJIA target…..Friday’s close was 13,365.87……although we did hit 14,279.96 on OCT11, 2007.  Cramer also gave a batch of price targets on most of theDJIA components:

Cramer’s Stock Picks FOR 5-YEARS OUT:

SOME LISTS: His list of recession proof stocks compared to ours.  We are updating our
Defensive Stocks For The First Half Of 2008" currently.  Cramer gave a huge list of companies he expects to benefit from the alternative energy traders (SGR, FWLT, BWA, OMG, FSLR, FTEK, WFR, TTEK, ZOLT, BP, SPWR, CY, CPST, ITRI)… Jim Cramer pondered which US companies China would want to acquire, about 3 months before sovereign funds started buying into US companies.  Cramer’s mortgage winners and losers…… Here were his MAJOR BULL MARKET STOCK PICKS(MHS, CVS, AGN, CELG, GENZ, CEPH, RIG, HAL, EMR, CAT, CMI, UTX, KO,PEP, CL, GS, SKS, VFC, UNP, CSX, BA), some of which are DJIAcomponents.  Cramer produced a "MUST OWN" list of stocks, many of whichare up significantly and some are down (WHR, BDK, ATI, BGC, HON, ASD, JCI, MDR, FWLT, CAT, TEX, DE, QCOM)

Cramer spent lots of time on International stocks that most US investors might not cover on their own.  He made a big call on Mercadolibre (MELI) (also BIDU, GOOG) with some emphasis on buying immediately, right before it made a huge run up.  Cramer’s Hidden Video Game Investment Perfect World (PWRD, ATVI, ERTS, VIA) was one he said could run more than 50% for 2008.  Cramer made 5 TOP CHINESE PICKS (CEO, CHL, SSW, FMCN, BIDU, GMR).  We’ll see in 2008 if any of his Canadian OIL TRUSTS get acquired in 2008 (BTE, CNE, PGH, PVX, PWE, AAV, GDI).  Cramer also went over his top picks from Europe for American investors (TOT, SI, ABB, PHG, BF)

ON TECHNOLOGY:  Cramer’s NEW HORSEMEN OF TECH…. will the list change in 2008???  Did Cramer Say $1,000.00 on Google, Or Is It $600.00? That was in May 2007.  Cramer Gave Monster Price targets to Baidu.com (BIDU, GOOG).. will these targets change in 2008? Cramer was very positive on all the GPS stocks,although we’d expect that Cramer will change his tune in 2008 now thatthe holiday madness is behind us (GRMN, UA, CROX, NVT, TRMB, SIRF).

Would it be fair not to include the Barron’s attack on Cramer from summer for those of you that criticize his every word?

ON WARREN BUFFETT…. Cramer noted that BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT in Canada may be the next Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK/A) NYSE: BAM). Cramer reviewed 10 Warren Buffett stocks for analysis and then reviewed 10 More Warren Buffett stocks:

Will his buyout of ALCOA (AA) prediction come true in 2008??? Cramer gave a list of stocks that had bought back so much stock that they might be taking themselves private.

Join our free email distribution list for other Cramer calls or for updates we send out regarding IPO’s, spin-offs, restructuring, reorganization, activist investors and more.

Happy New Years from the 247WallSt.com team!

Jon C. Ogg
December 31, 2007

Cramer’s European Picks (TOT, SI, ABB, PHG, BF)

On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer made his final "Investing In Europe" series pick.  He went to France and named Total (NYSE:TOT) as the oil pick as his final pick for the European buy list.  He likes their global footprint and they are looking at more developing country energy plays, but they are going where many American companies cannot get as much done.  He also likes how well they operate even in Russia and Africa.  Their refineries are also being upgraded to process the more sour crude that needs more refining, and this one is cheap compared to some of its US counterparts and is even trading more off its highs.

This series that Cramer did was all full of the big cap stocks in Europe.  What this will prove in the end if these all go up is not so much that these were just incredible stock picks.  It will prove we are in a major bull market and the market is willing to buy big cap stocks again.  You could go make the exact same strategy picks out of Asia and probably come back with the same sort of results.  Interestingly enough, in Cramer’s game plan for next week he ran more of a cautious note and suggested taking at least some profits.  So it doesn’t seem he’s just going to chase winners endlessly.  Cramer made other stock picks from Europe all week in his series, and here they are:

Thursday, he picked BASF (NYSE:BF) out of Germany as a chemical predator.

Wednesday, Cramer picked Siemens (NYSE:SI) as the major conglomerate for Europe that is similar to GE.

Tuesday, Cramer went to Switzerland’s infrastructure pick for the world as ABB Ltd. (NYSE:ABB).

Cramer’s first pick this week was Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) out of The Netherlands (NYSE:PHG).

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.

Cramer Digs Siemens As Europe’s GE Equivalent (SI, GE)

On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer continued his stock pick series for "Investing in Europe."  Tonight his pick is from Germany: Siemens AG (NYSE:SI/ADR).  He likes the conglomerate that participates in 9 sectors: medical, manufacturing, parts, emerging tech, communications, and everything else under the sun.  He thinks this was one of his $80+ to $120, because it went from under $80.00 to over $140.00.  He considers this as Europe’s version of General Electric (NYSE:GE).  This also lets them win projects that other companies cannot handle.

Here is the problem with this call, Siemens is a great company but it’s valuations look higher than most of the other large conglomerates. Its market cap is $131 Billion on a currency adjusted basis.  Part of the 100% rise in ADR’s is because of the weak dollar, but even in Euros this stock is up more than 60% over the last year.

Cramer has his "Stock Picks from the EU" series this week.  He’s picking diversified payers with large market caps, and these have been big performers.   His ADR pick on Tuesday was ABB Ltd. (NYSE:ABB) and Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG)  was his pick from Monday.

Jon C. Ogg
July 18, 2007

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

Cramer Goes for ABB (ABB)

On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer reviewed another one of his "European Stock Picks" series with tonight’s pick coming from Switzerland: ABB Ltd. (NYSE:ABB) as the best pure-play in infrastructure around the world.  With their focus on power and automation technologies, he thinks this one is a winner.  Its market cap is now over $50 Billion after its shares doubled and plays up and down the entire chain for small to incredibly large infrastructure projects in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America.  He also likes the Swiss ‘neutrality play’ for it to win business contracts.  Because they are huge in power lines and power plants, they have their future set.  They had old left over asbestos issues, but now they have so much cash that they said if they cannot find a good acquisition they will return capital to shareholders.

Last night he featured Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) in his "European Stock Picks" series he is doing all week, and you can see his comments here.

Jon C. Ogg
July 17, 2007

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