Posts for Ticker ‘XL’

Bernstein Dumps Insurers (ACE, ALL, CB, CNA, TRV, XL, AIG)

Burning_money_picFinancial stocks may have enjoyed sizable bounces from their lows in November and December, but not all analysts are following them up.  The insurrance sector and some of the re-insurance names have been downgraded by Bernstein.  Here are the following calls we have seen from their report:

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Posted on: January 6, 2009 – 7:56 am in Analyst Calls, Financial Stocks, , , , , , ,

The 52-Week Low Club (YHOO)(MSFT)(SIRI)(XL)(CHTR)(LVLT)(ORCL)(CSCO)(F)(DELL)

R218533_855025_2Yahoo! (YHOO) Concerns about slowdown in internet advertising. Drops to $13.20 from 52-week high of $34.08. Bet they wish they had taken Microsoft (MSFT) deal.

Sirius (SIRI) Merger a failure.Sells off to $.45 from 52-week high of $3.94.

Xl Cap (XL) Met Life warns, kills shares in industry. Down to $6.22 from 52-week high of $81.63.

Charter (CHTR) Troubled cable company, heavy with debt, gets more troubled. Falls to $.52 from 52-week high of $2.98.

Level 3 (LVLT) Big internet network company has too much debt. Dips to $1.66 from 52-week high of $5.01.

Oracle (ORCL) Concerns about enterprise software sales softening. Down to $16.01 from 52-week high of $23.62.

Cisco (CSCO) Another tech icon hurt by IT spending concerns. Sells down to $17.80 from 52-week high of $32.24.

Ford (F) More concerns about cash position and car sales. Runs down to $2.10 from 52-week high of $9.24.

Dell (DELL) Looks like the holidays may be weak for PC company. Off to $13.23 from 52-week high of $30.77.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted on: October 8, 2008 – 2:46 pm in HI/LOW, , , , , , , , , ,

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (RATE, CE, CSCO, DCP, RL, PFG, RYAAY, AKH, VM, XL)

Below are some of the early bird analyst calls that are affecting shares in pre-market trading:

  • Bankrate Inc. (NASDAQ: RATE) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.
  • Celanese (NYSE: CE) raised to Buy from Neutral at UBS.
  • Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) downgraded to Neutral from overweight at JPMorgan; downgraded to Neutral at Baird; more to come.
  • Dyncorp international (NYSE: DCP) upgraded to Buy at Jefferies; upgraded to Outperform at Wachovia.
  • Polo Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
  • Principal Financial (NYSE: PFG) raised to Neutral from Sell at UBS.
  • Ryanair Holdings (NASDAQ: RYAAY) and Air France KLM (NYSE: AKH) were both raised to Buy at UBS.
  • Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) downgraded to Equal Weight at Lehman.
  • XL Capital (NYSE: XL) cut to Neutral from Overweight at JPMorgan.

Jon C. Ogg
February 7, 2008

Posted on: February 7, 2008 – 7:20 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,