Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Alcatel-Lucent, Alibaba, CyberArk, Yelp, Rocket Fuel and Choice Hotels.
A research report came out on Monday, when many investors were still out enjoying an extended Fourth of July holiday, talking up two of the key mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs).…
We scanned our 24/7 research database for some quality income names that investors looking to receive higher dividend payouts may want to consider.
ThinkstockFor five years now, investors and savers have faced the lowest interest rates since the 1950s. Wall Street pundits breathlessly gush over the fact that small and large investors are reaching for…
ThinkstockMortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) are being defended by Doug Harter, the analyst who follows this sector for Credit Suisse. The thesis is that as book values keep rising, there is…
Jon C. Ogg One of the terrible things about taking interest rates to near zero and keeping them there is the savers in this country get murdered. After all these years of low rates, what…
After a strong 2013 where the S&P 500 was up almost 30%, you would think that most stocks would be close to being fully priced. That's not what Thomas Lee, the chief…
The U.S. equity strategy team at UBS has a positive view on stocks heading into 2014, particularly technology, financials and industrials. Here are the names they feel have the absolute greatest chance…
ThinkstockThe Wall Street firms that handle the bulk of retail accounts are always very careful about recommending stocks priced in the single digits. Typically they are fallen angels, or sometimes just the…
Investors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and farther out the yield curve or…
ThinkstockAs a rule, Wall Street brokers and financial advisors typically try to steer their clients away from stocks that trade under $10, as well as avoid like the plague stocks that trade…
ThinkstockIt was no secret that Larry Summers, the former candidate to replace Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was no big fan of the current easy money policies. The two…
The analyst team at Sterne Agee has updated its book value estimates for the high-yield mortgage-backed securities (MBS) real estate investment trust (REIT) sector. The move is based on rising interest rates…
ThinkstockThroughout May and June, we had been issuing warnings and highlighting research notes from Wall Street indicating that there was potentially a huge risk in the high-yield dividend mortgage real estate investment…
ThinkstockSterne Agee has downgraded many targets on its mortgage REIT sector. Investors can find extremely high-yield dividends here, often north of 10%, but the risk versus reward often can be too much…
