These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Started as Hold at Deutsche Bank. Becton Dickinson…
These are this morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein and target raised from $125 to $160.…
Another one of 24/7 Wall St. CEO’s that need to go has come to fruition. This morning Finish Line (NASDAQ: FINL) announced a management succession plan to replace co-founder Alan H. Cohen. …
Douglas A. McIntyre Goldman Sachs has noted that an analyst named Brad Cragin has left the firm, and his former targets and ratings in specialty apparel names are no longer in effect. These are some…
Thursday morning we’ll get to see earnings out of Genesco Inc. (NYSE: GCO). The estimates for the footwear company from First Call are $1.01 EPS on $485.82 million in revenues. Next quarter…
Douglas A. McIntyre If there is one company that needed to get out of its crazy merger, it was Finish Line. Inc. (NASDAQ: FINL). The company last year made a greatly leveraged buyout offer to…
Finish Line (NASDAQ:FINL) is a company in need of a new action team. Alan Cohen is co-founder, Chairman, and CEO. All companies reach a certain point where the founder needs to step…
Douglas A. McIntyre GENESCO (GCO) Broken buy-out. Down to $29.04 from 52-week high of $54.15. Unisys (UIS) No new news. Old line computer maker working on transformation to services. Down to $5.13 from 52-week high…
Yesterday morning 24/7 Wall St. covered how the buyout for Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE:ACS) was for all practical purposes looking like toast, and we wanted to see which other pending deals were…
Pier 1 Imports (PIR) Analyst lowers estimate. Stock falls to $4.41 from 52-week high of $9.06. Standard Pacific (SPF) Homebuilder taken down by more bad sector news. Falls to $6.12 from 52-week…
It is always a bit puzzling when you see a $600 million company make an acquisition of a company for $1.5 Billion. This morning, Finish Line (FINL-NASDAQ) has announced that it will…
Douglas A. McIntyre (AA) An ALCOA bid from BHP may be kindled according to numerous M&A reports.(ADVNA) Advanta trades ex-split to reflect a 3-2 stock split.(AGU) Agrium said earnings will be at or above the…
