Environmental & Facilities Services

Wunderlich Securities is reiterating its Buy rating and $21 target on Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA). “The company's 4Q10 results and 2011 outlook bring credibility to CVA's robust FCF and new capital allocation philosophy – growth is a core focus but not mindlessly,” Wunderlich Securities...

Wunderlich Securities is reiterating its Buy rating and price target of $37 on Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG). “Over the long term, the details of internal revenue growth (IRG) matter but, in an economic transition period, it is more important that IRG is positive,” Wunderlich Securities...

Wunderlich Securities reports that Waste Connections Inc. (NYSE: WCN) acquisition activity “could be amazing or just average.” “WCN has a steady diet of $40mm to $100mm of acquired revenues for the foreseeable future,” Wunderlich Securities writes. “However, 2011 could be a record year and that is...

Wunderlich Securities has raised the price target on Waste Connections (NYSE: WCN) from $29 to $35 and maintains its Buy rating.

Wunderlich Securities has a Buy rating and a $21 price target on shares of Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA). In a note to clients, Wunderlich writes, "We reiterate our Buy rating and $21 target on Covanta (CVA) shares. The company's 4Q10 results and 2011 outlook need to bring added...

Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $69 million contract to help the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) strengthen and support land management and reform in Afghanistan. Under this single-award, three-year program, Tetra Tech will provide...

US Ecology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECOL) today announced that its definitive agreement with Siemens Water Technologies Corp. announced on August 30, 2010, to acquire the assets of a permitted Treatment, Storage and Disposal facility located in Vernon, California has expired. Certain conditions required to...

CECO Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq: CECE) announced today that it recently received new orders totaling approximately $3.9 million. These new orders include $2.4 million from one of the largest diversified, multinational, mining companies in Brazil and additional orders totaling approximately $1.5...

Cusick's Corner While the market sentiment and trend is bullish, this grinding consolidation is starting to wear on traders. The market needs Financials to break consolidation in order to be in full on bull mode. Tech, QQQQ/XLK, have been leaders, but looks like put activity is picking up (see ETF...

Shares of Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA) are higher on the session by 0.12%, currently trading at $17.18. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past five months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...

Wunderlich Securities maintained its Stericycle (NASDAQ: SRCL) Hold rating and $80 price target in a research report published today. In the report, Wunderlich Securities states, "SRCL delivered strong 4Q10 results with revenues exceeding expectations on a upward swing in returns management...

Sterne Agee is reiterating its Buy rating and $30 price target on shares of Tetra Tech (NASDAQ: TTEK). In a note to clients, Sterne Agee writes, "TTEK raised its FY11 guidance due to an improved outlook in International and Commercial markets (~49% of revenue combined). GAAP EPS guidance was...

Wunderlich Securities is maintaining its Hold rating and $80 price target on Stericycle (NASDAQ: SRCL). “In 4Q10, we are expecting an in-line quarter with strong year-over-year growth driven again by acquisitions,” Wunderlich Securities writes. “SRCL now controls 35%-45% of the domestic collection...

Below are the top mid-cap waste management stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Stericycle Inc (NASDAQ: SRCL) is 22.50%. SRCL's operating margin for the same period is 27.20%. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at...

Pall Corporation (PLL) was easily the top-performing Zacks #1 Rank company on Monday, but it had nothing to do with earnings season. Last Friday, this filtration equipment company announced that its CEO will be retiring soon, which has at least one analyst believing that a merger or acquisition of...