Posts for Ticker ‘NWL’

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (KG, MXIM, NWL, WFMI, WY, LM, POWI, S)

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street this Monday morning:

  • King Pharma (KG) Raised to Overweight at Wachovia.
  • Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM) Raised to Market Perform at FBR.
  • Newell-Rubbermaid (NWL) Raised to Buy at B of A Merrill.
  • Whole Foods (WFMI) Raised to Market Perform at FBR.
  • Weyerhaueser (WY) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
  • Legg Mason (LM) Cut to Underperform at B of A Merrill.
  • Power Integrations (POWI) Cut to Sell at Piper Jaffray.
  • Sprint-Nextel (S) Cut to Market Weight at Wachovia.

JON C. OGG

Is Newell Rubbermaid Now Dead Money?

There are many stocks which are supposed to be at least somewhat immune to the recession.  This notion has become less and less true, even if some of the former recession-proof stocks have not fallen so much as others.  It seems no earnings are sacred, and that is now also the case at Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (NYSE: NWL).

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Major S&P Stocks On Decade Lows (AA, AMAT, AMD, DOW, EK, GCI, HOG, INTC, IP, JNY, M, MU, MSFT, NWL, NWS, SLE, STX, LUV, HOT, YRCW)

Broken_merger_torn_moneyCovering any part of the positives in this market has been literally as rewarding as jumping in the bear cage with the bears at the zoo.  We have been refraining from doing as many stocks which are on 52-week lows as the list is just too many companies.  But after the close we perused the entire S&P 500 and a few more large companies.  We reached down in the barrel and found an extensive list of stocks which are now trading at lows of the entire decade.   Fortunately for the seriously depressed, we took out the stocks which are financials, autos, housing, REIT’s, and penny stocks.  Below is the full list.

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