Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations included Agilent Technologies, Alphabet, Altria, Amazon.com, Boeing, Caterpillar, Chipotle Mexican Grill, E*Trade, Gap, Snap and Twitter.
So what should investors do now? More aggressive growth and income accounts can look for stocks that, for whatever reason, have been hit but still offer serious dividends.
Altria and Philip Morris saw their shares moving in opposite directions after the companies announced that their merger discussions have ended.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Tuesday included Ally Financial, Altria, AT&T, Ford, Micron Technology, Shopify, Valero Energy, Wells Fargo, Whiting Petroleum and Zscaler.
Many mergers have been announced or have closed, but just seven recent and pending deals have transformed how analysts and investors alike are having to view corporate America.
Wall Street tells big companies that they need to break themselves into smaller pieces to unlock the growth potential. Then a decade or so later, Wall Street tells them they would offer…
These five companies all pay at least a 6% dividend and offer a reasonable degree of safety. Even if a recovery in their share prices takes a while, the high dividends will…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations on Friday included Altria, Apple, BJ's Wholesale Club, Exxon Mobile, Gap, HP, Salesforce.com and VMware.
Altria's core products are still slowly killing their customers, but it manages to keep delivering dividend hikes for its shareholders.
Jon C. Ogg With much of the European sovereign debt trading with negative rates, demand may continue for U.S. Treasury debt, pushing yields even lower. That could mean a return to bond proxy stocks for…
Stocks saw profit-taking on Tuesday, but the major indexes were up on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s expected interest rate cut in the afternoon. Earnings season is proving to be quite…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations on Friday included Altria, Charles Schwab, Charter Communications, Comerica, Morgan Stanley, Slack, Snap, Wells Fargo and Zoom Video.
These five stocks offer investors a degree of safety in a market that appears to be teetering. In addition, they pay consistent and dependable dividends, and they will be around long after…
Cronos shares popped on Wednesday after Merrill Lynch released a very positive report. This is not something that happens every day, but the brokerage firm issued a double upgrade with very significant…
Chris Lange These four blue-chip leaders have been battered. Despite having higher yields than almost all top stocks, they are not outrageously risky by any means, and shareholders are paid handsomely to sit and…
