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Secondary Stock Offering Floodgates Open Wide (ARCC, SAVE, AONE, SQNM, BWP, HTGC, MMLP, ZIOP, FRAN, NAT)

Administrator — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:50:54 +0000

If you watch underwritings in stocks, it would be literally impossible not to pay attention to the waves of secondary stock offerings from companies in the last 48 hours. Some of the key secondary offerings that have prices and been proposed are as follows: Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC), Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAVE), A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE), Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP (NYSE: BWP), Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: HTGC), Martin Midstream Partners LP (NASDAQ: MMLP), ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZIOP), Francesca’s Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: FRAN), and Nordic American Tankers Limited (NYSE: NAT).

Here is a link to each summary with much more detail from the wire:

Ares Secondary (ARCC) hits shares
Spirit Airlines (SAVE) insiders unloading stock
A123 (AONE) has a direct share sale
Sequenom (SQNM) needs capital
Boardwalk Pipeline (BWP) Raising Capital
Hercules (HTGC) raising new investment capital
Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP) buying analyst coverage
ZIOPHARM (ZIOP) raising cash
Francesca’s (FRAN) shares held up
Nordic American Tankers (NAT) sells shares for more boat buying

What is funny is that this list is ten companies and it still leaves a few fresh filings out.

JON C. OGG

Filed under: Insider Activity, IPOs, Secondary Offering, Shareholder Issues Tagged: AONE, ARCC, BWP, FRAN, HTGC, MMLP, NAT, SAVE, SQNM, ZIOP

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (AXL, ARCC, FSLR, F, GOOG, HOG, JBL, LEA, MYL, RYAAY, UL)

247wallst — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:43:18 +0000

These are some of the top upgrades and positive calls we have seen from analysts on Wall Street this Wednesday morning:

American Axle (AXL) Raised to Hold from Sell at Deutsche Bank.
Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) Raised to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan.
First Solar (FSLR) Started as Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.
Ford (F) Raised to Hold from Sell at Deutsche Bank.
Google (GOOG) Started as Outperform at JMP Securities.
Harley Davidson (HOG) Raised to Hold from Sell at Citigroup.
Jabil Circuit (JBL) Raised to Hold from Sell at Citigroup.
Lear (LEA) Raised to Hold from Sell at Deutsche Bank.
Mylan Labs (MYL) Started as Buy at Citigroup.
Ryanair (RYAAY) Raised to Buy from Neutral at UBS.
Unilever (UL) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.

Jon C. Ogg
January 21, 2009

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: ARCC, AXL, F, FSLR, GOOG, HOG, JBL, LEA, MYL, RYAAY, UL

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (ARCC, BNI, MOT, PALM, RVBD, WEN)

247wallst — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:55:19 +0000

These are some of the top Pre-Market analyst upgrades on Wall Street this Tuesday morning:

Ares Capital (ARCC) Raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Burlington Northern (BNI) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Motorola (MOT) Raised to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.
Palm (PALM) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Riverbed Tech (RVBD) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Wendy’s/Arby’s (WEN) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.

Jon C. Ogg
January 20, 2009

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: ARCC, BNI, MOT, PALM, RVBD, WEN