24/7 Wall St. has identified nine analyst stock picks in shares priced under $10 for the week ended June 17 in which analysts see huge upside, if their predictions prove right.
A fresh report from Canaccord Genuity raised AMD to Buy from Hold, and the upgrade is also now projecting a tie for the street-high price target of $6.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday morning include AMD, BP, Cavium, Checkpoint Software, Jabil Circuit, Kansas City Southern and Yahoo.
On Monday, Jefferies raised its price target on Advanced Micro Devices, giving the shares a boost.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday morning include Advanced Micro Devices, Agios Pharmaceuticals, Baidu, Diamond Offshore Drilling, LyondellBasell and Occidental Petroleum.
The May 31 short interest data have been compared with the previous report. Short interest largely was mixed in these selected semiconductor stocks.
Among the most heavily shorted stocks traded on the Nasdaq, the big mover between the May 13 and May 31 settlement dates was Apple.
The May 13 short interest data have been compared with the previous report. On the broad scope, short interest moves increased in these selected semiconductor stocks.
As the time of “sell in May and go away” arrived, it seems the short sellers were neither strongly for nor against the notion, as least as far as the most heavily…
The short interest data have come out for the April 29 settlement date. On the broad scope, short interest moves decreased in these semiconductor stocks.
The most shorted of Nasdaq stock, Sirius XM, bucked the trend with a sharp increase in the number of its shares short.
The April 15 short interest data have been compared with the previous report. On the broad scope, short interest moves were mixed in these semiconductor stocks.
The largest decline among the top five most shorted Nasdaq stocks was in the shares of biopharmaceutical company MannKind. Intel’s short interest was essentially the same as at the end of March.
Advanced Micro Devices has long been a "just around the corner" story, and the Merrill Lynch analysts just don’t buy it.
Advanced Micro Devices saw a serious giveback on Monday after a massive rally on Friday after earnings.
Jon C. Ogg 
