The latest short interest numbers were released last night after the close. Overall, short positions dropped into the year end. However, there are still many stocks in short squeezes due to stubborn…
These are this Thursday morning’s top analyst upgrades and positive research calls seen from Wall Street: Foster Wheeler (FWLT) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. Genworth (GNW) Raised to Buy at Deutsche…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen early this Wednesday morning: Ceradyne (CRDN) cut to Underperform at Wachovia; Cut to Accumulate at ThinkEquity.…
These are the few upgrades and downgrades we have seen this shortened Wednesday. As we are in the holidays, the analyst community has largely gone quiet until after the first of the…
These are the top analyst upgrades we have seen this Monday morning ahead of the opening bell: Burger King (BKC) Raised to Buy at UBS. Credit Suisse (CS) Raised to Buy at…
Two small-cap steel companies reported earnings before the market opened today. Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) beat analysts’ estimates of $0.60 EPS on $101 million in revenue, posting EPS of $0.89 on revenues of…
These are ten of the individual analyst calls seen out there this Thursday morning ahead of a 3-day weekend: Aetna (NYSE: AET) cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs. Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Raised…
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this morning: Central Garden (NASDAQ: CENT) raised to Buy at Piper Jaffray. China Sunergy (NASDAQ: CSUN) raised to Hold at Jefferies.…
Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) is going to pursue a public offering of 25,000,000 shares of common stock and it granted underwriters an over-allotment option of up to an additional 3,750,000 shares. This…
Douglas A. McIntyre The largest losers among the big companies in the S&P 500 for the first quarter were: Microsoft (MSFT) down 21.6%, Google (GOOG) down 36.7%, Apple (AAPL) down 27.8%, Intel (INTC) down 22%,…
Goldman Sachs is out with a call raising its steel company earnings targets after above expectation steel prices and tighter supplies that represent a physical steel shortage. It sees some US steel…
Goldman Sachs is out with a call covering the steel stocks. We’ll be keeping this one shortened to keep it in a summary format. Goldman is noting that US STEEL PRICES ARE…
ADSK cut to Hold at Citigroup.ALEX cut to Mkt Perform at Wachovia.ALVR cut to Sector Perform at CIBC.BMI cut to Neutral at Baird.CLWR cut to Hold at Jefferies.CYBS cut to Mkt Perform…
After Nucor Corp. (NUE-NYSE) lowered guidance, Goldman Sachs has decided to withdraw it from the Americas Conviction Buy List. It notes that the stock appears undervalued to the $71.00 price target and…
Douglas A. McIntyre Stock Tickers: NUE, STLD, X, RS, AKS Nucor Corp. (NUE-NYSE) has a bit of a surprising news this morning: a steel company issuing an earnings warning. It now expects that earnings for…