Two large homebuilding ETFs have significantly different approaches to their holdings. One focuses on builders while the other includes more suppliers and retailers.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday included Amazon.com, Dover, Facebook, Lam Research, Newmont Mining, Occidental Petroleum, Six Flags, Tesla and 3D Systems.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included Bank of America, Danaher, Lyft, Netflix, Qualcomm, Tesla, Texas Instruments, Aurora Cannabis, Canopy Growth and Chipotle Mexican Grill.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included American Tower, Atlassian, Booking, Box, Dollar General, Fitbit, Hain Celestial, HP and Regions Financial.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included Agilent Technologies, American Water Works, Apple, Biogen, Garmin, GoDaddy, Tilray, UBS and Walmart.
Homebuilder D.R. Horton reported first fiscal quarter earnings Friday morning that were below consensus estimates. Revenues were slightly above consensus.
Paul Ausick The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included Alphabet, Amazon.com, Dell Technologies, IBM, International Paper, Merck, Pfizer, Tesla, Teva Pharmaceutical and Walmart.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included Bed Bath & Beyond, Boeing, Constellation Brands, Dell Technologies, Dollar General, Lockheed Martin, National Oilwell Varco, Snap, Twitter and Yelp.
Homebuilder D.R. Horton reported quarterly and full fiscal year earnings Thursday morning that roughly met analysts' expectations. As a group, though, homebuilders including Horton have had a very tough year.
Paul Ausick Homebuilder stocks are getting beaten up Wednesday following another unwelcome earnings report. But there may be some hope for the sector, provided builders get a few breaks.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Friday include Adobe, Corning, Costco, GrubHub, Kroger, Micron, Shopify, SLM, Walmart and Yelp.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include Deckers Outdoor, Expedia, Intel, Juniper Networks, Pure Storage, Southwest Airlines and NXP Semiconductors.
These four homebuilder stocks have big upside to their Merrill Lynch price targets, and the companies are among the biggest and the best in the business.
These are four great value plays from Merrill Lynch pay outstanding dividends and look like far better stocks to own going into the traditionally slower summer months than overpriced and crowded growth…
Here are the 10 stocks that now make up the Merrill Lynch Growth 10 portfolio, including new additions Netflix and D.R. Horton.
