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Goldman Sachs Reiterates Buy on NCR, Raises PT to $25
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 6:18am | 58Goldman Sachs reiterated its Buy rating on NCR (NYSE: NCR). At the same time, the rating agency raised its price target on the company's stock from $24 to $25. On Thursday, NCR added 2.7% to its value to end the day at $19.40. Its shares continued to climb in today's pre-market trading, rising 2.11...
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Goldman Raises PT On NCR To $25
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 5:50am | 29Goldman Sachs has raised the price target on NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) from $24 to $25 and maintains its Conviction Buy List rating.
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Fast Money Picks For July 22nd (LO, CBI, IBM, CAT)
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 8:10pm | 224CNBC Fast Money's Brian Kelly recommended a long position in Lorillard Inc. (NYSE: LO) in the wake of strong earnings results from Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM). Lorillard Inc. (LO) gained 3.12%, and Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) added 4.84%. Guy Adami wants to buy Chicago...
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Not Everything Is Pretty Out There
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 3:42pm | 429This afternoon, the major stock indexes are surging higher on heavier volume. Earnings reports for the most part have been good for the large mega cap stocks such as Apple Inc.(NASDAQ: AAPL), International Business Machines(NYSE: IBM), and Google Inc.(NASDAQ:). It is important to note that there...
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What's Hot On TheStreet
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 1:40pm | 262Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com. What's Hot On TheStreet Verizon Should Benefit from iPhone Demand Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is scheduled to report quarterly earnings before the market open on Friday. Investors will on the lookout for subscriber growth related to Apple's (...
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Thursday's Mid-Day Options Volume Leaders
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 1:06pm | 83Here are today's mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 354,821 contracts, 82.2% calls, 17.8% puts 2. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 188,164 contracts, 63.0% calls, 37.0% puts 3. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) 147,503 contracts, 67.3% calls, 32.7% puts 4. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:...
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Dividend Stock ETFs vs. Dividend Stock Mutual Funds
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 12:13pm | 98When it comes to dividend stock investing for a retirement portfolio, investors have the following three ways: Invest in dividend stocks directly. Invest[...more...] (MCD) (CVX) (SPX) (COP) (PEP) (KO) (UTX) (IBM) (PG) (XOM...
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Apple's Pricey Message to Consumers: Don't You Dare Buy Lion at Retail
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 11:15am | 801Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a new plan to push consumers to the App Store: charge too much for the alternative. The long-awaited Mac OS X Lion arrived yesterday, and if a Global Equities Research report is accurate, the snazzy upgrade has already been sold to more than 650,000 Mac users. That's an...
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Swiss Cheese Rally Filled With Holes
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 11:00am | 472The major stock indexes have soared higher over the past three trading sessions. Once again, stock indexes are trading higher this morning. Many leading stocks such as Apple Inc.(NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc.(NASDAQ), and International Business Machines(NYSE: IBM) have soared to new highs. The...
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Scotia Capital Maintains Sector Perform On Apple
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 8:52am | 100Scotia Capital is out with a research report on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and it has a Sector Perform rating and a one-year price target of $440. In a note to clients, Scotia Capital writes, "Better than expected iPhone and iPad volumes lead to better than expected quarter: Revenue of US$28,571M was 12...
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Stocks Wait for EU Summit, US Debt Resolution
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 8:50am | 306Indices opened higher yesterday after a nice three-day move from $129.63 to about $133.15 yesterday, then slowly traded a bit lower for an inside day. Some leading stocks had some exhaustion gaps that normally lead to a new base, including VMWare, Inc. (VMW), Apple Inc. (AAPL), Wynn Resorts Limited...
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BMC Provides Color on Dell
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 7:39am | 139BMC provided color on Dell (NASDAQ: DELL). In a research report published today, the rating agency commented on Dell's newest acquisition. In the report, BMC states,” Yesterday, Dell announced the acquisition of Force 10 Networks, a $200M privately held provider of datacenter networking products...
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Apple May Soon Pass Exxon Mobil as World's Most Valuable Company
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 7:39am | 66Based on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) growth trajectory, and a number of catalysts in the pipeline from a possible new iPhone this fall, to expansions in China, investors and analysts say Apple could unseat Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) in the next six months, or latest by the middle of next year.
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Stocks to Watch for Thursday 7/21/2011: Fresh 52 Week Highs and Lows
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 5:36am | 2699Stocks trading at or near 52-week highs and lows provide excellent trading opportunities, as volatility tends to increase at such levels. The following stocks hit new 52-week highs in Wednesdays's trading session (listed from highest total volume to lowest): 1) Nalco Holding (NYSE: NLC): Shares...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Likes Commercial Metals
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 2:49am | 242On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) “has had a big run. Take your profits there and go buy some Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)." Cramer said that he “isn't interested in Corrections Corp of America (NYSE: CXW).” For Silvercorp Metals (NYSE:...