The utility sector is a favorite of dividend and income investors.  The group was the best performing group of 2011 as investors snapped up higher dividends rather than Treasuries and CDs.  So far,...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray. DaVita,...
Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) is seeing some pressure this morning after earnings.  Interestingly enough, its smaller counterpart U-Store-It Trust (NYSE: YSI) rose a sharp 3.5% to $11.99 after its...
Today’s ratings news leads off with the downgrade by Moody’s of six Greek banks, including National Bank of Greece (NYSE: NBG). All six were lowered from ‘B3’ to ‘Caa2’. Anyone who is...
We have several big movers in the after-hours session.  We have compiled a news summary and shown the after-hours moves in the following shares this Thursday evening: Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. (NYSE:...
These are some of the early bird Wall Street analyst calls we are seeing this Tuesday morning with over two hours to the market open: Calgon Carbon (CCC) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. Entergy...
The utilities sector had been performing incredibly.  We recently highlighted the strong performance seen this year and over the last year with many of these names up 20% to 30% along with the...
These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and negative calls we have seen on Wall Street this morning: Avon Products (AVP) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs. Cardinal Health (CAH) Cut to...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning.AEGON (NYSE: AEG) Raised to Buy at BofA/ML. AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL)...
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Aircastle Ltd. (NYSE: AYR) Started as Outperform at Wells...
These are ten of the top pre-market analyst calls we have seen early this Tuesday morning with more than two hours until the market opens: Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Cut to Equal Weight at Barclays....
We often cover companies raising dividends and announcing new stock buyback plans.  We did see some dividend hikes this week, but there are also many unique dividend stories from this week which...
These are not the only analyst calls affecting shares of stock this morning, but these are the initial calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: AIG (NYSE: AIG) cut to Market Perform at KBW....
These are ten of the individual analyst calls we are looking at from Wall Street this Thursday morning: Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) started as Buy at Broadpoint Capital. Check Point...
These are not all of the upgrades or positive analyst calls seen this morning but these are some of the top calls seen this Friday morning: Aventine Renewable (NYSE: AVR) Raised to Buy from Neutral...