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Earlier this year was the trend of hiking dividends, but now that so many companies have raised their quarterly payouts we are seeing the ‘other’ shareholder-friendly action taking place. ...
These are some of the major research calls we have seen from analysts in their upgrades, downgrades, and initiations so far this Monday: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Conviction Buy List...
These are this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Neutral at Goldman...
It seems that earnings season is winding down, but next week we have many of the key retail and apparel players reporting earnings.  Saks Incorporated (NASDAQ: SKS), BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc....
These are Wednesday’s top ten analyst research summary upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street brokerage firms: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) Cut to Neutral at Susquehanna....
Over the past week, the 24/7 Wall St.–The Channel Checkers poll surveyed Ann Taylor (ANN) locations to gauge business trends at the ten retailers.  We asked the following questions: 1. On a...
AlixPartners, a turnaround firm, said at the beginning of the year that 10% to 26% of retailers were in financial distress and were in danger of filing for Chapter 11. It is worth considering how the...
Petroquest Energy (PQ) Now visible news. Shares drop to $.61 from a 52-week high of $29.18. Las Vegas Sands (LVS) Chief operating officer is replaced. Sells off to $1.38 from 52-week high of $84.29....
Valassis Communications (VCI) Q3 loss and outlook cut. Plunges to $1.78 from 52-week high of $16.80. Syniverse (SVR) Baird downgrades shares. Falls to $9.79 from 52-week high of $22.93. McDermott...
These are some of the many research upgrades we have seen from Wall Street analysts this Monday morning with more than two hours to the open: Ann Taylor (ANN) Raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs...
As this is last week of August, the daily upgrades and downgrades are rather thin as firms are starting to run on skeleton crews for one of the lightest news weeks of the year.  Here are today’s...
These are some of the analyst downgrades and negative calls we are seeing early this Tuesday morning: Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs. American Eagle Outfitters...
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Friday morning: ADC Telecom (NASDAQ: ADCT) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. AnnTaylor (NYSE: ANN) raised to Outperform at FBR. Ashland...
These are not the only research calls this morning affecting stock, particularly as the world is focused on the fleecing that has occurred at Bear Stearns this morning.   But these are other...
Some of these stocks hit 52-week lows and recovered off of lows so they won’t have a low close.  But these did all touch or breach the 52-week lows.  At the end we also broke out retail stocks,...