It has been amazing to see how many large and well-known technology stocks have scored waves of analyst upgrades and big price target hikes going into this earnings reporting season.
Texas recovered handily in 2017, even considering the big impact of Hurricane Harvey. And now the Texas economy is looking up for even better growth in 2018.
Some ailing companies never manage to turn around for shareholders. Others manage to stage miraculous turnarounds. Abercrombie & Fitch falls somewhere in the middle.
Friday's key upgrade of Nike was based on confidence for an inflection in margins and a return to growth in North America in 2019.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include Altria, Amex, Apple, Chipotle, IBM, Netflix, Nike, Sirius XM and Switch.
Credit Suisse sees Microsoft's cloud momentum continuing at least through 2018, and it outlines what options the company has for a large repatriation of cash.
Credit Suisse sees tax reform sparking a wave of mergers in the emerging pharmaceuticals space, which could produce sector outperformance. The firm is cautiously optimistic on this front.
While there is a lot of focus on IBM's earnings and revenues, investors may have to weigh many other issues equally or even more than the actual earnings report.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Thursday include CarMax, Caterpillar, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Comcast, First Solar, Juno Therapeutics, UnitedHealth and Walmart.
Apple indicated that it will pay $38 billion in repatriation taxes under the new tax law. Apple says that it is already the largest U.S. taxpayer and that a payment of that size likely…
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It's been a tough road for telecom investors of late. Very high dividends just have not enticed investors back into telecom giants Verizon and AT&T.
ThinkstockThere has been some uptick in estimates for fourth-quarter U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation coming into 2018. After all, the surging stock market would help support those trends, which the Federal Reserve needs…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Wednesday include Apple, Cisco, Citigroup, Dollar General, Groupon, IBM, Merck, Ulta Beauty and UnitedHealth.
Canaccord Genuity's diagnostics analyst Mark Massaro has released his own top picks for 2018. These top five picks in the space have a combined market cap of over $70 billion.
Investors have to be careful and disciplined to know what they are investing in. That is true enough for the large companies and exchange traded funds, but it's exponentially true for the highly speculative…
GE CEO John Flannery addressed shareholders in a conference call on Tuesday discussing how management is evaluating the best structure for GE's broad business portfolio in an effort to maximize the potential of its…
Amazon.com now finds itself in a precarious situation, as analysts just keep raising their price targets ever higher in 2018.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Tuesday include Amazon.com, Boeing, Chesapeake Energy, Eli Lilly, Gilead Sciences, Micron Thecnology, NVIDIA, Procter & Gamble and Qualcomm.
Roku Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) was a phenomenal initial public offering (IPO) in 2017. After initially selling 15.66 million shares at $14.00 per share, Roku shares vaulted higher. In fact, this stock may have been…
