Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Archer Daniels Midland Inc. (NYSE: ADM) Cut estimates and maintained Outperform…
ThinkstockIn 2010, disk drive makers shipped more than 653 million units. Of that number, Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) shipped more than 200 million and Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) shipped about 112…
Jon OggThis last week had some key analyst calls that either stood out from the pack, showed some key insight, or which moved shares more than just a garden variety upgrade or…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus. Energy Recovery, Inc.…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII), Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ: HERO), Identive Group,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Earnings season may be winding down but there are still sector-moving companies due to report earnings this week. We will be watching earnings for AutoZone Inc. (NYSE: AZO), Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:…
Next week looks like the wind-down of earnings season with the exception of the off-calendar quarter companies. There are no DJIA components we saw on the calendar but there are several big…
They say there is an ETF for everything. Now comes the launch by First Trust Advisors L.P. for a Smartphone ETF. The First Trust NASDAQ CEA Smartphone Index Fund (NASDAQ: FONE) offers…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Cut to Equal-Weight at Barclays. Arch Coal…
Yesterday brought on a very unusual volume alert for active traders in shares of Atheros Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR), which was briefly halted on a circuit breaker spike. The cause was a…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG) Raised to Outperform at Baird. Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE)…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: STD) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM)…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Raised to Buy at Argus. Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML)…
Texas Instruments saw its shares rise in the after-hours on Thursday on word of a dividend hike and a monster share buyback plan. Frankly this may be the wrong path for the…
Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies. The amount of share buybacks announced in August…
