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Jacobs Wins Middle East Contract - Analyst Blog
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 5:30pm | 364Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC) won a contract from Marafiq to serve as project management contractor (PMC) for Marafiq's ongoing investment program in Saudi Arabia. The contract value was not disclosed. Jacobs will provide PMC services for a number of projects in the industrial cities of...
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Stocks That Created New 52-Week Highs (ATRM, AFCE, ALLT, AMAC, ANGN)
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 3:27pm | 263Aetrium Incorporated (NASDAQ: ATRM) shares added 4.81% to create a new 52-week high of $3.27. ATRM designs, manufactures and markets electromechanical equipment used by the semiconductor industry to handle and test integrated circuits. Read more about this company here. AFC Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ...
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HSIC Initiated With Neutral At UBS
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 9:47am | 40Analysts at UBS initiate coverage of Henry Schein (NASDAQ: HSIC) with a "neutral" rating. HSIC’s shares closed at $56.61 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here
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PDCO Initiated With Neutral
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 9:46am | 40Analysts at UBS initiate coverage of Patterson Companies (NASDAQ: PDCO) with a "neutral" rating. PDCO’s shares closed at $30.66 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here
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OMI Initiated With Neutral
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 9:32am | 40Analysts at UBS initiate coverage of Owens & Minor (NYSE: OMI) with a "neutral" rating. OMI’s shares closed at $45.34 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here
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Simple Quantitative View of Goldman's VIP List Generates Some Other Long Ideas
Monday, March 8, 2010 - 10:01am | 1063For a pdf of this report, follow this link: Simple Quantitative Overview of Goldman Sach's VIP List. An article by the contributor "Market Folly" on Goldman Sach's "VIP List" caught our attention on Seeking Alpha. What better way to test our simple quantitative model against a list of 50 stocks...
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McKesson Corporation (MCK) Maintains An Outperform Rating
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 6:08pm | 119Analyst Charles Rhyee at Oppenheimer (NYSE: OPY) has maintained an Outperform rating for McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK). The company currently has $3.4 billion in cash, which Oppenheimer believes it can use for acquisitions or share repurchases. According to Oppenheimer, the market has not...
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Top Performing Industries For February 8 (HAS, LEAP, CVS, PMC, BCH, SPF, PHA)
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 3:01pm | 393Stocks have been trading unpredictably over the past four weeks as investors are on the lookout for signs of stability in the global economic recovery. Over the past couple of weeks, concerns surrounding the unmanageable level of debt for Greece, Spain and Portugal and China’s decision to take...
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Dental Industry Update (HSIC, PDCO, SIRO, XRAY, ALGN)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 3:55pm | 176Analysts at Northcoast Research have released an update on the Dental industry. According to a research conducted by analysts, the North American dental product sales through distributors decreased 1.5% year-over-year in the fourth quarter. Analysts expect dental equipment sales to decline 5.2%...
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Benzinga’s Top Upgrades (UPS, APKT, IRF, AHII, SIVB)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 10:12am | 277United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) was upgraded today by Deutsche Bank from Hold to Buy and the price target increased from $67 to $70. United Parcel Service is now trading at $58.83,0.36% up in the pre-market session. UPS closed at $58.62 in the previous trading session. In the last year, UPS...
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Benzinga’s Top Upgrades (COF, CAH, DAI, TTWO, ISBC)
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 9:59am | 303Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) was upgraded today by Sun Trust Rbsn Humphrey from Neutral to Buy with a price target of $50. Capital One Financial is now trading at $37.85, 3.02% up. Capital One Financial closed at $36.74 in the previous trading session. In the last year, COF has gained...
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Cavium Networks (CAVM) Continues to Show Strong Growth
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 8:54am | 1380I am continuing to read over earnings reports and developing lists of companies that are hitting the cover off the ball in a very tough environment & I am interested in additing to the portfolio . Sharp revenue growth in this type of economy is impressive and all we can do is try to peck at...
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Earnings Round-up For Companies Reporting Before The Markets Open (MOT, T, AMZN, MMM, MSFT, MO, BDX, AEP, AZN, BMY, CAH, CEL, C, D, EL)
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 7:43am | 686Companies reporting before the bell: Motorola (NYSE: MOT): The company may report its earnings at $0.8 per share. Read more about this company here. AT&T (NYSE: T): The telecommunications company is expected to report its earnings at $0.51 a share, reflecting a $0.13 decline from its year-...
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Benzinga’s Top Downgrades (MCK, CTCM, X, VZ)
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 9:43am | 212McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) declined 1.12% to $61.65 after McKesson Corporation was downgraded by Leerink Swann to Market Perform from Outperform. The 52-week trading range for MCK is $33.13 - $64.98. McKesson Corporation closed at $62.35 in the previous trading session. CTC Media, Inc. (...
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AmerisourceBergen (ABC) Raises Profit Forecasts
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 10:55am | 100New business, generic drug launches and operating cost controls helped the pharmaceutical wholesaler, AmerisourceBergen Corp. (NYSE: ABC), post better than expected Q1 results. Revenues increased by 11.5 percent to $19.34 billion which was attributed to newly won business and the overall...