Posts for Ticker ‘HPC’

Stocks Which Doubled Market Performance (ATI, CMCSA, COH, FMCN, HPC, IPG, MICC, NEM, SNI, TIE, VMED)

Money_stack_picAs you will see today’s gains of 10% and more on both the DJIA and the S&P 500 Index, we wanted to explore which stocks greatly outperformed the markets today.  We’d note that it is rather odd to see that technology stocks measured by the NASDAQ were actually lagging the overall market today.

DJIA              9,065.12 (+889.35; +10.88%)
S&P500        940.51 (+91.59; +10.79%)
NASDAQ       1,649.47 (+143.57; +9.53%)

Below is a list of the stocks which outperformed by roughly double over the major index gains of the DJIA, S&P 500, and NASDAQ 100.  These stocks posted gains of 20% or more on the day, and we’d note that this list would actually be much larger if we included the financial stocks and REIT Stocks which we backed out for obvious reasons:

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Key Analyst Downgrades (CSC, HPC, JBX, RMD, SAPE, HOT, TRIN, WB)

These are some of the preliminary downgrades or negative research calls seen out of Wall Street analysts this Monday morning in early morning hours:

  • Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) Cut to Sell from Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
  • Hercules (NYSE: HPC) Cut to Hold from Buy at Deutsche Bank.
  • Jack In The Box (NYSE: JBX) Cut to Buy from Strong Buy at Wedbush Morgan.
  • Resmed (NYSE: RMD) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
  • Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) Cut to Sell from Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
  • Starwood Hotels (NYSE: HOT) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
  • Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) Cut to Sell from Neutral at UBS.
  • Wachovia (NYSE: WB) Cut to Neutral at UBS.

Jon C. Ogg
July 14, 2008