Baxter International is taking an activist investor role of its own. The health care company has announced that it is splitting itself into two separate companies.
The Jefferies "Franchise" stock picks for 2014 are an eclectic group that may offer investors some ideas that are not highly touted on Wall Street. If the Jefferies team is right, these…
These are the top analyst upgrades, initiations and positive analyst research calls seen from Wall Street on Monday, January 6.
ThinkstockHealth care has been a top sector for investors this year. The research team at Oppenheimer continues to believe that health care remains well positioned to deliver further market-topping returns in 2014.…
ThinkstockWhen the markets go through periods of great gains, it is not uncommon to see companies start to take more radical efforts to increase their total return for shareholders. Some may go…
Courtesy of Abbott LaboratoriesWith many of the companies in the S&P 500 having margins approaching all-time highs, and implied S&P 500 correlations approaching post-crisis lows, it is becoming harder to make a…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsWith the equity markets seemingly hitting new all-time highs every day, we were intrigued by the makeup of the new UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) Equity Focus List. The…
ThinkstockThe U.K.’s royal family is wealthy, but likely not wealthy enough to pass up sponsorships as the heir to the thrown is born to Kate, the wife to Prince William. Or, perhaps…
ThinkstockFollowing last month’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the euro-U.S. dollar exchange rate (EURUSD) fell to just over 80. Less than a month later the EURUSD came within a few ticks of…
July 17, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and managed to hold onto a decent gain following a day of ups and downs as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before…
ThinkstockAbbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The drugmaker reported adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.46 on revenues of $5.45 billion. In the same…
Paul Ausick July 16, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened a bit higher this morning but almost instantly turned lower and remained in the red virtually all day. In Europe, Germany’s ZEW economic sentiment survey…
ThinkstockAs the pharmaceuticals industry looks toward restructuring and separation of undervalued assets, Jefferies analysts have prepared a highly proprietary sum of the parts analysis for their coverage universe to find the best…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning but soon rose above the break-even line where it stayed until noon when share prices began to dip. That was quite a shift from Asian…
These are the top analyst upgrades and stocks to buy from select Wall Street research calls on May 20, 2013. They include J.C. Penney, Pandora Media, Priceline.com and T-Mobile US.
