These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street morning research calls: Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein. Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:…
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls. There were several banking and broker-on-broker cuts: Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:…
Investing in mortgages might not be as bad as many thought. Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) has already raised more capital on more than one occasion since coming public in 2007 when…
These are the top pre-market early-bird analyst calls we have seen with about two and a half hours until the market opens this Tuesday morning: Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to Buy at…
Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is back at the trough to raise more cash. The vulture mortgage investment REIT has filed to sell up to $750 million in common and preferred stock. …
Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) has raised cash via a secondary offering. The mortgage and fixed income investment vehicle, which we have referred to as the first public vulture fund set up…
These are not all of the upgrades and positive analyst calls on Wall Street this morning, but these are the ones we are focusing on early this Tuesday morning: Annaly Capital (NLY)…
These are some of the positive calls and upgrades we have seen from analysts this morning: ACE Ltd. (ACE) raised to buy at Goldman Sachs. Annaly Capital (NLY) raised to overweight at…
This morning we are seeing a massive gain on the heels of the US government seizure tied to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Those shares are halted and Warren Buffett has just…
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Wednesday morning in the early pre-market hours: Alcoa (NYSE: AA) cut to Neutral at JP Morgan. American Capital (NASDAQ: ACAS)…
Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) has filed with the SEC to raise up to $345,000,000 in new capital via the sale of common stock. Concurrent with this offering, the company will sell…
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) has priced its public secondary stock offering of 60 million shares of common stock at $16.15 per share. The gross proceeds are about $969.0 million before…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are not all of the analyst calls affecting shares but these are ten that we are focused on this Thursday morning: Annaly Mortgage (NYSE: NLY) cut to Hold at Citigroup. CommScope…
ValueAct Capital Management is a leading activist fund that acquires shares in public companies to influence their boards to make certain actions or to fix current problems. In an SEC Filing, the…
Shares of Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) are being pounded this morning. The reason for the selling isn’t on its own news. Competitor Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE: TMA) has fallen some 60%…