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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BIDU, CYOU, CLB, CSX, EBAY, HLF, M, MON, PVH, PLCM, REG, WDC, WU, WYNN, YOKU)

Administrator — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:28:15 +0000

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Changyou.com Limited (NASDAQ: CYOU) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Core Laboratories N.V. (NYSE: CLB) Cut to Market Perform at FBR.
CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) Maintained long-term outperform and near-term hold at Zacks; reiterated Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Herbalife (HLF: NYSE) Reiterated Buy at Canaccord Genuity.
Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) Started as Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) named value stock of the day at Zacks.
Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray; Cut to Market Perform at William Blair.
Regency Centers Corporation (NYSE: REG) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Western Digital Corporation (NYSE: WDC) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.
Western Union (NYSE: WU) Raised to Outperform as Bull of the Day at Zacks.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) Reiterated Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Youku.com Inc. (NYSE: YOKU) Raised to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.

JON C. OGG

Filed under: Analyst Calls Tagged: BIDU, CLB, CSX, CYOU, EBAY, HLF, M, MON, PLCM, PVH, REG, WDC, WU, WYNN, YOKU

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARUN, CMI, DMND, ENZN, FCEL, FIG, HLF, KFT, MYGN, NTAP, OIS, PMTC, PTR, PETD, SWFT)

Administrator — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:23:53 +0000

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning.

Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) Started as Buy at UBS.
Cummins, Inc. (NYSE: CMI) Reiterated Outperform as Bull of the Day at Zacks.
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENZN) Cut to Underperform as Bear of the Day at Zacks.
Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
FuelCell Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) Maintained Buy with $3 target at Canaccord Genuity.
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) Reiterated Buy and raised target to $63 at Argus.
Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Myriad Genetics Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) Raised to Buy at Auriga.
NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Oil States International, Inc. (NYSE: OIS) Reiterated Strong Buy as Value at Zacks.
Parametric Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: PMTC) Reiterated Buy with $28 target at Canaccord Genuity.
PetroChina Co. Ltd. (NYSE: PTR) Raised to Buy at BofA/ML.
Petroleum Development Corporation (NASDAQ: PETD) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Swift Transportation Co., LLC (NYSE: SWFT) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.

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JON C. OGG

Filed under: Analyst Calls Tagged: ARUN, CMI, DMND, ENZN, FCEL, FIG, HLF, KFT, MYGN, NTAP, OIS, PETD, PMTC, PTR, SWFT

The 52-Week Low Club (THC)(HLF)(HNT)(FCSX)

247wallst — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:01:01 +0000

Tenet Healthcare (THC) Misses numbers and forecasts. Down to $2.52 from 52-week high of $6.88.

Herbalife (HLF) Bad outlook equals three-year low. Falls to $17.23 from 52-week high of $51.09.

Health Net (HNT) Nice eight-year low on bad earnings and forecast. The daily double. Sells off to $9.57 from 52-week high of $52.96.

FCStone Group (FCSX) Last quarter hurt by commodities prices. Plunges to $2.90 from 52-week high of $53.25.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted in HI/LOW Tagged: FCSX, HLF, HNT, THC

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (MO, HLF, ITT, M, MCK, NTRI, PM, SLM, STT, YGE)

247wallst — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:54:07 +0000

These are 10 of the top calls that 247WallSt.com is looking at this morning:

Altria (NYSE: MO) cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) started as Overweight at Lehman Brothers.
ITT Industries (NYSE: ITT) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Macy’s (NYSE: M) cut to Underweight at JP Morgan.
McKesson (NYSE: MCK) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Nutrisystem (NASDAQ: NTRI) started as Underweight at Lehman Brothers.
Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) started as Overweight at JP Morgan.
Sallie Mae (NYSE: SLM) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
State Street (NYSE: STT) cut to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.
Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) started as Overweight at Lehman Brothers.

Jon C. Ogg
April 16, 2008

Share Buyback Announcements Still Coming (HLF, GPS, WABC, JRN)

247wallst — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:13:00 +0000

Today we continued to see companies announcing new or adding to existing share buyback plans. These were the main announcements, although it may be worth noting that this does not include companies that have repurchased shares in the open market. Below is a list of the buyback plans and some add-on notes with explanations or exceptions:

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) said it was increasing its share buyback plan by $150 million to $450 million. Of course it has requested an increase of $150 million in the revolving credit commitments pursuant to its existing Credit Agreement dated July 21, 2006. Including this increase, the company would have aggregate revolving credit commitments of $250 million. The company is pursuing this borrowing facility increase on a best efforts basis and expects it to be concluded by September 15, 2007. Since authorization of the share repurchase program on April 17, 2007, the company has repurchased 5.2 million shares for an aggregate of $204 million, representing approximately 7 percent of the fully diluted share base as of that date.

Gap Inc. (NYSE:GPS) has added $1.5 Billion to its share buyback plan after earnings today, although an accelerated buyback looks like it will be to the founders. The company expects that about $250 million (17%) of the $1.5 billion share repurchase program will be purchased from these Fisher family members.

Westamerica Bancorporation (NASDAQ: WABC), parent company of Westamerica Bank, announced that its Board of Directors approved a plan to repurchase, as conditions warrant, up to two million shares of the Company’s common stock on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions from time to time prior to September 1, 2008. The repurchase plan represents approximately 6.8% of the Company’s common stock outstanding as of July 25, 2007, and the plan replaces the existing two million-share stock repurchase program, under which 576,000 remained available to purchase as of June 30, 2007.

This morning Journal Communications, Inc. (NYSE:JRN) announced that it has repurchased 3,200,000 shares of class B common stock from the Company’s founding family shareholder, Matex Inc., at $10.00 per share, for a total of $32.0 million.

Jon C. Ogg
August 23, 2007

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

Cramer Eats Crow Over Herbalife (HLF)

247wallst — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:09:31 +0000

Tonight on CNBC’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer said he was ready to eat crow over Herbalife (HLF-NYSE) because it is a supplement company that he got wrong. It sells via Multi-level marketing and that uses 3rd party manufacturers. He thought it was bad, but now he says that this one deserves to trade higher rather than lower. The earnings were better and guidance in-line, plus they just got approval to market in 2 Chinese provinces. It has high margins and strong cash flow. They rejected a $38.00 bid from J.H.Whitney, so this should have a fairly clear floor. It also has a large buyback and a decent dividend. A new CEO cut down some of the distributors down.

This one traded up 2.4% to $40.34 in after-hours, after closing up 0.4% at $39.39 today. The 52-week trading range is $27.73 to $42.54.

Jon C. Ogg
May 15, 2007

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