Posts for Ticker ‘VSH’

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (DNDN, ETFC, ESLR, HGSI, LDK, LPNT, MWW, PNC, SWKS, STP, VSH)

These are some of the top research calls from analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Monday morning:

Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) Started as Overweight and $46 target at JPMorgan.
E*TRADE Financial (NASDAQ: ETFC) Started as Market Perform and $1.70 Target at KBW.
Evergreen Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR) Cut to Underweight at Barclays.
Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI) Resumed at Buy at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
LDK Solar Co.Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) Cut to Underweight at Barclays.
Lifepoint Hospitals (NASDAQ: LPNT) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo.
Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.
PNC Financial (NYSE: PNC) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein.
Skyworks Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) Cut to Equal Weight at Barclays.
Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (NYSE: VSH) Cut to Market Weight at Thomas Weisel.

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JON C. OGG

Posted on: February 22, 2010 – 8:03 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , , ,

Why So Many Mergers Are Failing (WMI, RSG, AW, VSH, IRF, DBD, UTX, SNDK)

Broken_merger_torn_moneyBack in normal economic times and back when private equity was king, Mondays were often referred to as "Merger Monday" because mergers would be announced at the start of the week.  If you monitor mergers and possible buyout targets in the manner we do at 247 Wall St., then today might feel like it should be named De-Merger Monday.  There are three very large mergers which have been scrapped today and this brings up issues in another pending giant technology merger.

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Posted on: October 13, 2008 – 1:05 pm in Mergers and Buy Outs, , , , , , , ,