Oracle was trading down marginally Thursday morning after the analyst team at Argus downgraded the stock to a Hold from a prior Buy rating. This call may be swept under the rug…
Q2 Holdings held its initial public offering Thursday morning, selling 7.76 million shares at $13 a share, the high end of its estimated range. Based on early trading, the stock appears to…
Paul Ausick Some experts believe the S&P 500 has risen too much, because the increase has little support from the general economy and corporate earnings. A sudden weakness of a few large cap stocks…
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the theme that surrounded the show was the "Internet of Things." Stifel analysts believe the Internet of Things has arrived and is presenting…
In a new research report, the team at Baird continues to like the market strength of the software and services category. This may be an area that investors ought to shift some…
The year 2013 was a one of accelerating growth for most software companies, and the software analysts at Merrill Lynch expect 2014 to continue to show strong growth. Here are the top…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms Monday, December 23, 2013.
In a new research report, the Merrill Lynch team points out that the sector is trading at the steepest discount to the market in its history. It seems that 2014 might be…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Like most firms that we cover on Wall Street, Piper Jaffray has updated its top names to buy for 2014, and the firm has an extensive market commentary to…
ThinkstockWhen the top tech companies agree to present at a firm’s technology conference, that firm has the decided advantage of getting some behind-the-scenes due diligence in them. The UBS technology conference is…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has made many key changes to its universe of Top Picks. This is the firm’s sector-by-sector report showing the three top picks from the firm’s analysts. For each stock that…
Jon OggWe are in the thick of corporate earnings season and stocks are challenging all-time highs. This is a climate in which investors want and need to know which stocks to buy…
courtesy of Google Inc.Tech is undergoing one of its every-15-year transitions, this time from a client-server basis to information technology as a service (ITaaS). According to the tech analysts at UBS, history…
ThinkstockThe technology analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch surveyed more than 175 respondents with a total information technology (IT) budgets of more than $5 billion, predominantly in the United States (87%…
Jon OggEarnings season has started as Washington, D.C., seems to have figured a way out of its shenanigans again. Now investors really have to be wondering which stocks to buy and which…
