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Walmart Upgraded After Christmas

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← Back to Full Coverage: Stock Market Live December 26: Nvidia to Buy Groq, S&P 500 (VOO) Flat After Christmas

Wall Street remains pretty quiet as trading resumes for the week’s final day. CICC is one of the few analysts still at its desk initiating coverage of stocks this week, starting Walmart (NYSE: WMT | WMT Price Prediction) at outperform rating with a $125 price target.

Details on the initiation are few at present, but it’s logical to assume CICC thinks Walmart had a good Christmas selling season. Regardless, Walmart stock opened 0.1% lower this morning, and the Voo is still up less than 0.1%.

Nvidia stock is up 1% however.

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Capital One Beats AmEx

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BTIG analyst Vincent Caintic raised his price target on S&P 500 component company Capital One (NYSE: COF) to $308, and maintained his buy rating on the credit card giant today.

Caintic values Capital One at 12.4x 2027 estimated earnings, growing towards a 15x multiple in the future, which he notes would still be cheaper than the 20x multiple on American Express (NYSE: AXP) — which Caintic says is a sell.

Capital One stock is flat today despite the news, American Express is down 0.6%, and the Voo is now down 0.1%

China Lashes Out

| Rich Smith
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China is responding to a Trump administration plan to sell weapons to Taiwan by sanctioning 20 U.S. defense companies, including Boeing (NYSE: BA), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and privately-held Anduril Industries.

Company executives will be banned from entering China and any assets they own in China will be frozen, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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He brings more than 15 years of experience as an investor and financial journalist, including 12 years at The Motley Fool, where he served as an investment analyst, Bureau Chief, and later led the Fool.com investing news desk. He has also co-hosted an investing podcast and appeared across TV and radio discussing market trends.

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