Posts for Ticker ‘OXPS’

Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADSK, BA, BEAV, EXC, OXPS, RCL, UNH, TROW, WU, AUY)

These are this Monday morning’s top ten Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen with close to 2 hours until the market opens:
Autodesk (ADSK) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Boeing (BA) Cut to Equal Weight at Barclays.
BE Aerospace (BEAV) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
Exelon (EXC) Cut to Hold at KeyBanc.
OptionsXpress (OXPS) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Merriman Curhan Ford.
Royal Caribbean (RCL) Raised to Buy at S&P.
UnitedHealth (UNH) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
T. Rowe Price (TROW) Raised to Market Perform at FBR.
Western Union (WU) Started as Buy at Citigroup.
Yamana Gold (AUY) Cut to Sector Perform at CIBC.

Jon C. Ogg
July 27, 2009

Posted on: July 27, 2009 – 6:45 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,

Niche Trading Firm Mergers Not Dead (AMTD, SWIM, OXPS, TRAD)

Money_stack_picIt seems that the appetite for online brokerage firms to do selective M&A deals is not entirely dead.  TD Ameritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD) has announced this morning that it is acquiring much smaller thinkorswim Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SWIM).  It is paying a hefty premium of $606 million for the company, but you also have to consider what the larger firm is getting for the acquisition.

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Posted on: January 8, 2009 – 9:18 am in Brokerage Firms, Mergers and Buy Outs, , , ,

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (EHTH, FFIV, FDRY, LEN, OXPS, SGP, TWTI)

These are some of the top upgrades or positive analyst calls we have seen this Tuesday morning in early pre-market trading hours:

  • eHealth (NASDAQ: EHTH) Raised to Perform from Underperform at Oppenheimer.
  • F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) Started as Buy at Pacific Growth.
  • Foundry Networks (NASDAQ: FDRY) Started as Buy at Pacific Growth.
  • Lennar (NYSE: LEN) Raised to Neutral from Sell at UBS.
  • OptionsXpress (NASDAQ: OXPS) Started as Market Outperform at JMP Securities.
  • Schering-Plough (NYSE: SGP) Raised to Overweight from Equal-weight at Lehman Brothers.
  • Third Wave (NASDAQ: TWTI) Cut to Hold from Buy at Deutsche Bank.

Jon C. Ogg
July 15, 2008

Posted on: July 15, 2008 – 6:38 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , ,

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ARM, BTUI, ELY, KO, INTC, JASO, K, LEH, OCR, OXPS)

These are some of the top analyst calls we are looking at this Tuesday morning:

  • ArvinMeritor (NYSE: ARM) Raised to Buy From Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
  • BTU International (NASDAQ: BTUI) Started as Overweight at Thomas Weisel.
  • Callaway Golf (NYSE: ELY) Started as Outperform at Raymond James.
  • Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) Raised to Buy from Hold at Deutsche Bank.
  • Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Started as Buy at ThinkPanmure.
  • JA Solar (NASDAQ: JASO) Started as Buy at Broadpoint.
  • Kellogg (NYSE: K) Raised to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Lehman (NYSE: LEH) Cut to Market Perform from Outperform as Wachovia.
  • Omnicare (NYSE: OCR) Raised to Outperform from Perform at Oppenheimer.
  • optionsXpress (NASDAQ: OXPS) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Merriman Curhan Ford.

Jon C. Ogg
June 10, 2008

Posted on: June 10, 2008 – 6:40 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ACI, RATE, BKS, GS, HAS, MOS, OXPS, POT, SIRF, YHOO)

These are not the only analyst calls impacting stocks this morning, but these are the key calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on this morning:

  • Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • Bankrate (NASDAQ: RATE) downgraded to Hold at Jefferies.
  • Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) downgraded to Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) downgraded to Market Perform at Oppenheimer.
  • Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) raised to Buy at Banc of America.
  • Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) raised to Buy at Citigroup.
  • OptionsXpress (NASDAQ: OXPS) started as Sell at Merriman Curhan Ford.
  • Potash (NYSE: POT) raised to Buy at Citigroup
  • SiRF Tech (NASDAQ: SIRF) downgraded across the board: Jefferies, Lehman, Oppenheimer.
  • Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) raised to Buy at Canaccord Adams; downgraded to Neutral at Banc of America.

Jon C. Ogg
February 5, 2008

Posted on: February 5, 2008 – 7:24 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,

24/7 Wall St. Discount Broker Survey

24/7 Wall St. did an online survey asking visitors to its website which discount broker give the best service. With 106 respondents, these are the results:

Scottrade                    29%

Schwab  (SCHW)         23%

TDAmeritrade (AMTD)   23%

E*Trade (ETFC)            10%

Zecco                           8%

TradeKing                     4%

OptionsXpress (OXPS)   4%

Perhaps problems at E*Trade are catching up to it in the court of public opinion.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted on: September 26, 2007 – 5:32 am in Research, , , ,

Top Earnings Next Week Part 2 (July 19-20, 2007)

THURSDAY
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSDAQ:AMD)
Ameritrade (NASDAQ:AMTD)
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)
Bank of New York (NYSE:BK)
Cemex (NYSE:CX/ADR)
Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL)
Cypress Semi (NYSE:CY)
Dow Jones (NYSE:DJ)
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB)
First Data (NYSE:FDC)
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD)
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)
Harley-Davidson (NYSE:HOG)
Honeywelll (NYSE:HON)
Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW)
International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT)
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT)
NASDAQ Stock market (NASDAQ:NDAQ)
OptionsXpress (NASDAQ:OXPS)
PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ:PMCS)
Roche
Safeway (NYSE:SWY)
SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK)
SAP AG (NYSE:SAP)
Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL)
Seagate Tech (NYSE:STX)
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:SPWR)
SunTrust (NYSE:STI)
Telefonos De Mexico (NYSE:TMX)
Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP)
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH)
Wyeth (NYSE:WYE)
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX)

FRIDAY
Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT)
Citigroup (NYSE:C)
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC)
Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB)
Wachovia Corp (NYSE:WB)

Jon C. Ogg
July 13, 2007

PLEASE NOTE: THSE DATES MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE OR MAY HAVE ALREADY CHANGED

Posted on: July 13, 2007 – 5:05 pm in Calendar, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Shorts Up Against Online Brokers (May 2007) (ETFC, AMTD, SCHW, NITE, OXPS, TRAD, IBKR)

Stock Tickers: ETFC, AMTD, SCHW, NITE, OXPS, TRAD, IBKR

The short interest in online brokers is often a guage as to what traders are thinking about the markets because it is one of the directly affected areas by rising or falling trading volume in the overall stock markets.  So if shares in the short interest are rising, then short sellers in these names are either building positions for an impending fall in the markets or a drop in trading volume, or they are just fighting the tape.

Stock (Ticker)                     MAY       APRIL    CHANGE
E*Trade (ETFC)             16.72M    10.96M     52%
TD Ameritrade (AMTD)  21.45M    13.96M     53%
Schwab (SCHW)            20.66M    18.2M       13.5%
Knight Trading (NITE)   10.02M    8.79M        14%
optionsXpress (OXPS)   5.05M       5.4M        -7%
Interactive Brkrs (IBKR)   415K        N/A          N/A
TradeStation (TRAD)      2.05M        2.1M       -2.6%

Jon C. Ogg
May 25, 2007

JOn Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.
 

Posted on: May 25, 2007 – 8:05 am in Brokerage Firms, Internet, Short Interest, , , , , , ,