U.S. Silica Holdings Inc, based in Katy, Texas, specializes in producing and selling commercial silica. The company caters to a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, where its silica products are used in hydraulic fracturing. It also supplies whole grain silica for glass manufacturing, foundry industry, and various industrial minerals for construction, chemicals, and more. Additionally, U.S. Silica offers engineered materials from diatomaceous earth, clay, and perlite, alongside providing logistics and labor services. Established in 1894, it serves a diverse client base from oilfield services to building products and specialty markets.
Tuesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Agnico Eagle Mines, Bloom Energy, Crocs, Edison International, Enphase Energy, First Solar, Intel, Macy’s, Plug Power, SL Green Realty, Tesla and Wolfspeed.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Advanced Micro Devices, Alphabet, Amazon.com, Digital Ocean, D.R. Horton, Freeport-McMoRan, Intel, Nvidia, Rivian Automotive, Tesla and Twitter.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Accenture, Bridgebio Pharma, Chesapeake Energy, eBay, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huntsman, New York Community Bancorp, Nucor, Oracle, PBF Energy, Phillips 66, United States Steel and Valero…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included Cree, Goldman Sachs, Home Depot, IBM, Lennar, Lowe's, NetApp, Netflix, Starbucks and United Continental.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included Abercrombie & Fitch, CME, Costco, DowDuPont, Gap, HCA, Herbalife, Merck, PayPal and Urban Outfitters.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday include Baker Hughes, CBS, Generac, Halliburton, Nike, PG&E, Snap, Tesla, Weatherford and Western Digital.
U.S. Silica Holdings, L Brands, Pitney Bowes, and Grupo Supervielle all posted new 52-week lows Wednesday.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday include Affimed, Coty, Cree, Lululemon Athletica, Myriad Genetics, Tesla and Xilinx.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include Apple, Biogen, Costco, Kroger, Humana and Patterson-UTI.
These five top oilfield services plays not only look like solid picks but they are good value buys for the rest of 2018.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Thursday include Alkermes, ArQule, Bluebird Bio, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Ecolab, KLA-Tencor, Pandora Media, Verisk Analytics and Vonage.
With the OPEC production cuts helping to thin out bloated inventories, and demand remaining very robust, the oil service companies may be set for a very solid year.
The best thing to do for 2018 and beyond is look for the sweet spots in the market where there is still some relative value. One of those areas for sure is…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include Boston Scientific, Ciena, GoDaddy, Kratos Defense, Lipocine, Repligen, Teladoc and Vodafone.
With the combined recent drop in oil pricing, plus the potential for continued near-term weakness as a result of the storm, any sector sell-off could be a solid buying opportunity.
