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Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on Hansen Natural (NASDAQ: HANS), raising its PT to $71. In a note to clients, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "We maintain our Buy rating and lift our 12-month target price from $67 to $71 per share, 11.2x estimated 2012 EBITDA or 19.5x our 2012 EPS estimate,...

Gabelli is out with its report today on Hansen Natural (NASDAQ: HANS), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Gabelli writes, "We believe Hansen Natural is an attractive acquisition target considering the company's position as the second-largest global player in the energy drinks category (behind...

US stock futures are slightly higher this morning, as investors are awaiting data on weekly jobless numbers, existing home sales and leading indicators. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 14 points to 12,546.00 and futures on the S&P 500 stock index rose 1.40 points to 1,340.00...

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: CCE) today announced that the French Autorité des marchés financiers has approved the company's prospectus for admission of its Common stock to listing and trading on the Professional Segment of NYSE Euronext in Paris and has granted visa number 11-162, dated May...

Citi is out with its report today on Coca-Cola Bottling Co. (NASDAQ: COKE), raising its PT from $61 to $69. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "While we are encouraged by the improved on-premise and convenience trends in CSDs, and we are hopeful that positive pricing will boost not only revenue...

Citigroup has raised the price target on Coca-Cola Bottling Company (NASDAQ: COKE) from $61 to $69 and maintains its Hold rating.

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Shares of Hansen Natural Corporation (NASDAQ: HANS) are higher on the session by 0.17%, currently trading at $66.61. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...

Cognex (CGNX) is trading at a price of $34.86, a dramatic change of -0.97. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 1.45B. Cognex is giving up its quarterly distributions by 13% to $0.09 a share. This is the third time over...

(TheStreet) -- Stocks were trading nearly 1% lower Friday, driven by rising inflation concerns and a stronger dollar. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 118 points, or 0.9%, at 12,578. The S&P 500 was lower by 12 points, or 0.9%, at 1337, and the Nasdaq was off by 31 points, or 1.1...

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), provider of visual computing technologies and the inventor of the graphics processing unit, is down 6.3% premarket to $19.22, relative to a 52-week range of $8.65-$26.17. Penson Worldwide (PNSN), provider of a range of critical securities and futures processing...

Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), the owner of the KFC and Taco Bell fast-food chains, said it will take Little Sheep, the operator of Chinese hotpot restaurants, private in a deal valued at $862 million. Yum already owns more than 27% of Mongolia-based Little Sheep. Under the terms of the deal, Yum will...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that he is a “backer of Heckmann (NYSE: HEK).” He believes that it is a “terrific speculative stock." He believes that OmniVision Technologies (NASDAQ: OVTI) is “still a buy. This is connected with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). It's a good...

Alright, so this is the environment that we're looking at: Rising inflation concerns, falling commodities prices, diminishing risk appetite and several other factors that indicate paring back a portfolio's beta in the near- to medium-term may is probably a fine idea. Sounds like a good time to...

Morgan Stanley is reiterating its Overweight rating and maintaining its $82 price target on PepsiCo Inc (NYSE: PEP) as it remains very high on the stock. Says Morgan Stanley, in its report, “We are reiterating our Overweight rating on Pepsi, which is our top pick and on Morgan Stanley's Best Ideas...