Jon OggEach morning we cover about fifteen top analyst calls for investors and traders to consider. Some calls offer great insight, and some are quite literally career-killing flops. At the end of…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Reiterated Buy and Raised target at Argus.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) Started as Buy at UBS. Cummins,…
Jon OggApollo Global Management LLC (NYSE: APO) is looking like a bit of a dud of an IPO. Some will think that this could temper some of the excitement around private equity and…
Jon OggThe world of private equity is not what it once was, but the remaining private equity leaders that survived out there do now seem to be stronger if they survived. Apollo…
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is still one of the most hated companies, but not so by private equity buyers looking to see what meat can picked off of a carcass. …
It was just in August that practically every single initial public offering was trading above its IPO price. The market had rallied significantly, and still rallied after that to just this week…
Private equity firms keep exiting their old buyouts when they can. This morning we have an initial public offering from RailAmerica, Inc. (NYSE: RA) for some 22,000,000 shares of common stock. This…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are the top ten pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research this Thursday morning: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Cut to Hold at Argus. DuPont (DD) Raised to Perform at…
We are seeing yet another wave of secondary offerings that have priced between yesterday’s close and this morning. The offerings we have seen come to more than $1 billion and are from…
There is an interesting trend where Barclays has essentially cut its rankings on hedge fund and private equity operators. Here are the calls, plus a call elsewhere on a bank: Blackstone (NYSE:…
These are ten of the top analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen this Monday morning with about 2 hours to the the open: Everest Re (RE) to Outperform at Wachovia. Fortress…
Fortress Investment Group, LLC (NYSE: FIG) has filed a shelf registration to offer as much as $1 billion in mixed securities. It lists Class A shares, preferred shares, depository shares, warrants, subscription…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are not all of the downgrades or negative analyst calls affecting stocks this Tuesday, but these are some of the highlights we have seen with over 2 and a half hours…
Penn National Gaming Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) has been considered a dead merger for quite some time, yet it only officially became a dead merger this morning. This was the last of the…
