Electronic Equipment Manufacturers

J.P. Morgan, which lowered its PT on shares of National Instruments Corporation (NASDAQ: NATI), is providing some color on the company. “We are adjusting our model for the 3-for-2 stock split,” J.P. Morgan writes. “Given the split, our revised diluted shares outstanding estimate for the March...

Piper Jaffray maintained its Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) Overweight rating and $75 price target in a research report published today. In the report, Piper Jaffray states, "Industry data q/q growth is tracking below historical norms by 3 percentage points, but we are modeling for Dolby's...

JP Morgan has lowered the price target on National Instruments (NASDAQ: NATI) from $45 to $36.50 and maintains its Overweight rating.

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CKP) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 26, 2010. Net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 were $235.5 million compared to net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2009 of $237.8 million. Net earnings attributable...

GSI Group Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIG) today that the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has entered an order granting final approval of the previously announced settlement in the putative shareholder class action entitled Wiltold Trzeciakowski, Individually and on behalf of all...

In view of the unusual market activity in the common stock of Advanced Photonix on February 17, 2011 (NYSE: API), the NYSE has contacted the company in accordance with its usual practice. The company stated that it is our company policy not to comment on unusual market activity.

MOCON, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOCO) announced today that on February 17, 2011, its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of ten cents ($0.10) per share, payable on May 20, 2011, to shareholders of record on May 6, 2011. This is a five percent increase over the previous rate of nine and one-...

IntriCon Corporation (NASDAQ: IIN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. For the fourth quarter, the company reported net sales of $14.5 million, an increase of 2 percent from net sales of $14.2 million for the prior-year period. The company...

Wedbush upgrades Itron (NASDAQ: ITRI) from Neutral to Outperform.

Itron (NASDAQ: ITRI) reported 4Q results that approximately aligned with expectations adjusting for one-time items, but this was not a clean quarter and ITRI will probably not get credit for a record year with PF EPS up 88% on 34% sales growth. Guidance for 2011 captures consensus EPS expectations...

Wunderlich Securities reiterated its Itron (NASDAQ: ITRI) Hold rating and $63 price target in a research report published today. In the report, Wunderlich Securities states, "We believe revenue growth for Itron, Inc. (ITRI) has peaked in the near term and that, barring a significant uptick in...

NetApp Inc (NASDAQ: NTAP) was downgraded by Citigroup from "buy" to "hold." NTAP's shares closed at $58.54 yesterday. NetApp's PEG ratio is 1.66. Stifel Nicolaus downgraded Dreamworks Animation SKG Inc (NASDAQ: DWA) from "hold" to "sell." DWA's shares closed at $29.10 yesterday. DWA's PEG ratio is...

JP Morgan has lowered the price target on Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) from $95 to $80 and maintains its Overweight rating.

L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ID) today announced the completion of the sale of the L-1 intelligence services businesses (SpecTal, LLC, Advanced Concepts, Inc. and McClendon, LLC) to BAE Systems, Inc. (BAESY). As previously announced, the purchase price includes $295.8 million in cash and...

Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (NYSE: VPG) today announced results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010. VPG was spun-off from Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE: VSH) as an independent publicly traded company on July 6, 2010 and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 7, 2010....