Posts for Ticker ‘OSIS’

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BAX, CIEN, GNW, IMAX, JASO, MCD, OSIS, POT, PM, RYAAY, VALE)

These are this Tuesday morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls:

Baxter International (NYSE: BAX) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Genworth Financial (NYSE: GNW) Cut to Neutral at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX) Cut to Sell at Merriman Curhan Ford.
JA Solar Holdings (NASDAQ: JASO) Cut to Neutral at Broadpoint AmTech.
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
OSI Systems (NASDAQ: OSIS) Cut to Market Perform at Morgan Keegan.
Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) Target cut to $116 at UBS.
Phillip Morris International (NYSE: PM) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Ryanair Holdings plc (NASDAQ: RYAAY) Started as Buy at UBS.
Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE) Raised to Overweight at Barclays.

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JON C. OGG

Posted on: January 19, 2010 – 8:32 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , , ,

Cramer’s 2010 Counterterrorism Stock Picks (ASEI, OSIS, FLIR, COGT, NICE)

It seems every market pundit has their outlook picks for 2010, and Jim Cramer is no different.  Last night was Cramer’s “Energy Shortage Stock Picks for 2010″ and on CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight Cramer gave his featured stock picks in the Homeland Security and anti-terrorism sector.  Considering the recent failed plane bombing attempt on Christmas Day, this sector enjoyed much interest last week.  Cramer believes the real counter-terrorism stocks that are not the garbage speculative names are American Science & Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI), OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR), and Cogent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COGT).  His big feature and review stock for charts and fundamentals was in Nice Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE).  Cramer did note that some of these are still up very big from lows and might need to be bought on pullbacks.
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Posted on: January 5, 2010 – 6:45 pm in Analyst Calls, Cramer, Cult Stock, Defense, Transports, , , , ,

Top Day Trader Alerts (CBAK, CGEN, OSIS, FNM, FRE, DISH)

These are the top pre-market movers for day traders, active traders, and swing traders seen early this Wednesday.  We have compiled more detailed data and analysis with a link to each story over at VSInvestor.com:

China BAK Battery, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBAK) is giving back much of yesterday’s gains.

Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ: CGEN) is up on its offering news as the weighted average price ended up being above the current market price.

OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS) is trying to make this a 3-day run on airport security system hopes.

Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) are both lower after yesterday’s early gains failed to stay in positive territory.

Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) has seen two major block trades of 4 million shares each.

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JON C. OGG

Posted on: December 30, 2009 – 9:03 am in Pre-Market Activity, Trading Alert, , , , , ,

Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (CPST, HAYN, HNZ, OSIS, SBP, VECO)

burning-money-pic1These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and negative research calls we have seen from Wall Street with more than two hours to open this Tuesday morning:

Capstone Turbine (CPST) Cut to Market Perform at Wachovia.

Haynes International (HAYN) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan; Cut to Hold at KeyBanc.

Hines (HNZ) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.

OSI Systems (OSIS) Cut to Market Perform at Morgan Keegan.

Santander (SBP) Cut to Hold at Societe Generale.

Veeco Instruments (VECO) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.

Jon C. Ogg

February 10, 2009

Posted on: February 10, 2009 – 7:32 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , ,

OSI Systems Wins More Cargo Inspection Orders (OSIS)

OSI Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS) announced this morning that it won two separate government contracts worth roughly a combined $30 million.  These are cargo screening orders for Rapiscan Eagle Mobile, Rapiscan Eagle Gantry and Rapiscan Gamma Radiographic Detection Systems Gantry systems.  The systems are to be deployed domestically and internationally for the inspection of inbound and outbound shipping containers and trucks.

OSI Systems generated $532.28 million in fiscal JUNE-2007 revenues, so this is representative of more than 5% of revenues.  The few analysts that follow the stock are expecting the fiscal JUNE-2008 revenues to be $590 million.

What is sad is that if you go back through time the company has grown revenues from 2005 to 2006 to 2007 from $385M to $$452.6M to $532M (and projected to $590M in 2008).  But this stock has never really made a major ramp as shares closed yesterday at $23.50 and have traded over the last year at $18.53 to $29.80.  At the June 30 equivalent for 2005, 2006, and 2007, the stock prices were as follows:  $15.79, $17.77, and $27.35 respectively. The current stock price reflects a post-earnings near 20% haircut, although shares have regained much of the losses.

For such a strong homeland security play in an area that actually NEEDS to be improved exponentially compared to so many other wasted spending projects in the homeland sector, this stock has never really managed to break out.  If anyone ever gets tough or serious on port container and cargo security, this is one to watch.  AND, if the government ever looks like they are going to get serious about this initiative then OSI Systems could find itself acquired by larger companies.  If the government continues to putter around this topic, well shares are representative of that currently.

Jon C. Ogg
October 3, 2007

Posted on: October 3, 2007 – 7:44 am in Defense, , , ,

Critiquing Smart Money’s “Ten Stocks for the Next Ten Years”

Stock Tickers: AAWW, CELL, HPOL, OSIS, PWAV, SIRO, TTEK, UNFI, VAS, WTS

The new cover story for the May 2007 Smart Money Magazine is an interesting one as "The Ten Stocks For The Next Ten Years" and is one that will carry some interest from small cap and growth-oriented investors for those seeking secular trends.  This was posted online earlier this week, but this is the sort of issue that you usually want to look at a few days after the dust settles and over the first weekend that the magazine is actually on the stands.  Many will have seen this online or will have seen some of it this morning on CNBC or elsewhere, but most readers of the hard copy will probably be reviewing this 10/10 list over this weekend.

The screening criteria used by Smart Money was not a focus on the classic P/E ratios or book value, and the names are an interesting mix of companies.  Many of these are well known and have been around for some time, and some are rather obscure names that the public doesn’t follow that closely. The screen put a greater emphasis on price/sales ratios; its looked for a classic small-cap range from $300 million to $2 billion in market value; a history of rising sales of at least 10% a year over the past five years. That screen produced 150 names that they chose 10 stocks from.

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Posted on: April 13, 2007 – 9:25 am in Uncategorized, , , , , , , , , ,