These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Reiterated Hold at Argus. Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI)…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) did not exactly get a resounding endorsement today in an afternoon research call. S&P Equity Research decided it was removing its Buy rating that had been in place…
Short sellers moved into the shares of companies that Wall St. views as having weak earnings capacity and poor business strategies. Shares sold short in AMD (NYSE: AMD), which recently pushed out…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is not really making any strategy changes to its portfolio of public stock holdings under its Intel Capital unit. That does not mean that it is not worth…
The method of using capital from the corporate treasury to return capital to shareholders via share repurchase programs has long been under question. Most buybacks never are fully utilized, and many simply…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
NokiaStandard & Poor’s suspects that the new strategy from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), set to be announced February 11th, is not going to be enough to boost the company’s competitive position in…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at Stern Agee.…
China PMI data for January showed inflation (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) posted strong earnings and reinstated its dividend (Reuters) The IMF said imbalances in employment and prices could cause protectionism among…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has been trying to recover and things seemed to be going well for its core business. A new issue has come up in a chipset design flaw, as…
Jon C. Ogg Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is often questioned about its hoard of nearly $60 billion in cash and securities. Investors wonder why the most valuable technology corporate in the US based on market capitalization…
AIG (NYSE: AIG) said ailing CEO Benmosche will remain through 2012. (Reuters) The Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee has referred several cases of potential law violations from the credit crisis to authorities inside…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is announced this morning that it was increasing its share repurchase program by a whopping $10 billion. While this is a positive, it does raise some questions. This…
Jon C. Ogg DRAMeXchange has released a report calling for DRAM prices reaching a bottom. More importantly, the report is saying that 20% to 25% rebound in DRAM prices is foreseeable by the second quarter…
Jon C. Ogg There are several ways to rank America’s most widely followed public companies. They could be ranked by annual sales, brand value, market capitalization, number of customers, or profits. Another approach is to…
