Posts for Ticker ‘HMA’

Top Analyst Upgrades (ANF, DLB, HMA, LPNT, NWS, THC, WFMI, YHOO)

These are the top earlybird analyst upgrades and positive research calls seen early this Monday morning:

Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
Dolby Labs (DLB) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Health Management (HMA) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Lifepoint Hospitals (LPNT) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
News Corp (NWS) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Tenet Healthcae (THC) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Whole Foods (WFMI) Raised to Outperform at RBC.
Yahoo! (YHOO) Raised to Overweight at Barclays.

JON C. OGG

Posted on: June 1, 2009 – 6:56 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , ,

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

Posted on: January 16, 2009 – 7:53 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The 52-Week Low Club (LFG)(HMA)(XTEX)

Sad_clownLandamerica (LFG) Merger deal with Fidelity National Financial falls apart and RBC Capital downgrades the stock. The daily double. Plunges to $.47 from 52-week high of $53.23.

Health Management Associates (HMA) Jumpy trading. No big news. Falls to $.80 from 52-week high of $.8.20.

Crosstex Energy (XTEX) No news. Continues several day sell-off. Down to $3.20 from 52-week high of $34.50.

List seems short, but markets are up 6%.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted on: November 24, 2008 – 3:52 pm in HI/LOW, , ,

CEOs Time Stock Gifts A Little Too Well (HMA)(MSM)

It looks like CEOs are timing stock gifts, especially those to their family foundations, a little too well

A study by a professor at New York University looked at 151 gifts over over $1 million between 2003 and 2005. According to The Wall Street Journal the study "finds that many donations to the family foundations occur just before sharp drops in the companies’ stock prices." The professor told the newspaper "I think the IRS would take a dim view of altering a date of a gift in order to get a bigger deduction."

Management mentioned in the article includes CEOs or past CEOs at Health Management (HMA) and MSC Industrial (MSM).

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted on: March 5, 2008 – 5:11 am in SEC, ,

The 52-Week Low Club

Health Management Associates (HMA) Big borrowing for special dividend. Drops to $6.36 from 52-week high of $21.59.

Opentv (OPTV) CEO leaves. Down to $1.23 from 52-week high of $3.15.

Infospace (INSP) Has not recoved from tough quarter. Still slipping. Down to $13.72 from 52-week high of $27.76.

Ikanos (IKAN) Falling for several days after cutting outlook. Down to $5.83 from 52-week high of $13.70.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted on: September 4, 2007 – 3:41 pm in HI/LOW, , , ,