Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Apple, Cheniere Energy, Envision Solar, Livent, Lyft, Nikola, Nio, Roku, Salesforce.com, Shopify, Uber and Vroom.
Tuesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Crocs, Gap, GW Pharmaceuticals, Lowe's Companies, Merck, Nio, Palo Alto Networks, Phillips 66, Starbucks and Vital Farms.
Target reported second-quarter earnings Wednesday that were 85% higher than they were a year ago, but it offered only boilerplate statements related to future risks.
24/7 Wall St. has reviewed what to expect from some of the key companies reporting quarterly results this coming week, including Alibaba, Home Depot and Walmart.
Friday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included AES, Applied Materials, Bloom Energy, Chimera Investment, Co-Diagnostics, FirstEnergy, Home Depot, Marriott, Target, Tesla and Walmart.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included AutoNation, CDW, Cree, Costco Wholesale, Deere, Etsy, Lowe's Companies, Roku, Target, Ulta Beauty and Vaxart.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the status quo for brick-and-mortar retail and online retail. Just how "forever" those changes are will depend on how long the pandemic lasts.
What may give investors pause is whether Amazon will continue to dominate online retail sales following the wider adoption of online shopping resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the stay-home orders.
Retail giant Target announced on Thursday that was raising its quarterly dividend by 3%. However, there are some other key takeaways that investors need to consider here for the long haul.
A number of U.S. cities have been hit with protests, some of which have turned violent. Retail locations in these places face damage.
Amazon is very big and very fast and that has served it well in the pandemic, but Walmart remains a formidable competitor.
Big-box retailer Target released mixed fiscal first-quarter financial results without guidance before the markets opened on Tuesday.
Chris Lange Big-box retailer Target is scheduled to release its fiscal first-quarter financial results before the markets open on Wednesday.
Chris Lange 24/7 Wall St. previews Home Depot, Target, Walmart and some of the other key companies reporting this coming week.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Bluebird Bio, Ciena, CommVault Systems, Dollar General, JD.com, Kroger, Nucor, Target and Walmart.
