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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Worst Press (6/10)

247wallst — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:12:19 +0000

American Electric Power received bad press because it shuttered some coal facilities and will lay-off workers. Toyota said its profits will fall 35%

The Washington Post’s Kaplan division will cut staff as revenue falls. The Citigroup dta breach received bad press worldwide.

The Flame Index started as a research tool in 2008 at the NY Innovation Design Lab (nyidlab). It was used as a general metric to evaluate companies and their risk in the media. Publicly traded Fortune 500 companies are used as a measure to calculate an overall market of negative news and the companies are ranked within that market.

Rank	Company	Ticker	Score	Change in Rank	Comments
2	American Electric Power	AEP	37.839	588	Will shutter coal plants and lay off workers
11	Toyota Motor Corporation	TM	25.638	121	Says profits will fall 35%
16	Mohawk Industries	MHK	22.214	177	Earnings frighten investors
31	Autoliv	ALV	19.711	163	Hit with EU antitrust questions
33	Washington Post	WPO	19.592	366	Kaplan division fires workers
35	Citigroup	C	19.216	163	Security breach of credit card data
40	Bob Evans Farms	BOBE	18.019	671	Analyst upgrades stock
41	Comcast	CMCSA	17.633	594	Growth in concern about Netflix competition
42	Jones Lang LaSalle	JLL	17.455	715	Loses big for Holiday Inn location
50	Rite Aid	RAD	16.733	231	Move toward penny stock land

Data and ranking provided by the Flame Index.

Filed under: General, Research Tagged: AEP, ALV, C, MHK, TM, WPO

Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (AZO, CX, FNM, ISIL, MHK, NVDA, PETM, POR, TSCO, UST)

247wallst — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:34:12 +0000

These are some of the larger impact calls from analysts with downgrades or negative calls we are seeing this Monday morning with more than two hours to the open:

AutoZone (AZO) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Cemex (CX) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) Cut to Sell from Buy at Citigroup.
Intersil (ISIL) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
Mohawk Industries (MHK) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.
NVIDIA (NVDA) Cut to Sell at UBS.
PetSmart (PETM) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Portland General Electric (POR) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Tractor Supply (TSCO) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
UST (UST) Cut to Neutral at UBS.

Jon C. Ogg
September 8, 2008

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (BBI, DO, NE, EMC, ELX, HP, MEE, MHK, PVA, TEF, VOD, RIG)

247wallst — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:45:34 +0000

These are the early-bird calls that we are looking at pre-market this Tuesday morning ahead of the earnings deluge that is about to start:

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Diamond Offshore (NYSE: DO) & Noble Corp. (NYSE: NE) cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
Emulex (NYSE: ELX) Cut to Sell from Buy at Citigroup.
Helmerich & Payne (NYSE: HP) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
Massey Energy (NYSE: MEE) Raised to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan.
Mohawk Industries (NYSE: MHK) Started as Buy at UBS.
Penn Virginia (NYSE: PVA) Started as Overweight at Lehman Brothers.
Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) started as Outperform at Bernstein.
Transocean (NYSE: RIG)) cut to Sell from Hold at Deutsche Bank.

Jon C. Ogg
April 15, 2008

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (CS, DB, UBS, ASML, IFX, PHG, ETFC, FCEL, MHK, PLUG, TMX, VLO, WNR)

247wallst — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:06:01 +0000

These are not teh only impact analyst calls today impacting stocks, but these are the key calls that 24/7 Wall St. is focusing on. This isn’t exactly 10 if you look at the bullet points, but that is because some of the research calls are multi-stock calls:

BEAR STEARNS Downgrades key European investment banking names: Credit Suisse (CS) and Deutsche Bank (DB) both downgraded to Underperform from Peer Perform ratings; UBS AG downgraded from Outperform to Peer Perform rating.
EU CHIP & TECH: ASML Holdings (ASML), Infineon (IFX), and Royal Philips Electronics (PHG) all started as Buy at UBS.
E*Trade (ETFC) downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at BMO Capital Markets; Credit Suisse cut its price target to $4.00; Goldman Sachs cautions that a takeover is unlikely near-term..
Fuel Cell (FCEL) started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
Plug Power (PLUG) started as Underweight at JPMorgan.
Telmex (TMX) raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Valero (VLO) & Western Refining (WNR) were both raised to Buy at Banc of America. Mohawk (MHK) downgraded to Sell from Neutral at Banc of America.

Jon C. Ogg
November 30, 2007