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Credit Suisse Increases Industrial Expectations
Credit Suisse has decided that some of the gains in the industrial segment are not over. Republic Services Group (NYSE: RSG) is rated Outperform and its target was raised to $38 from $34, while Waste...
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Oppenheimer Sees Transports Continuing to Lead the Way Higher (FDX, UPS, NSC,...
There is a big difference between a market rally and a bull market. Bear market rallies often happen when the stock market is so oversold that short sellers or deep value investors feel they have to be...
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Earnings Season Kickoff: Calendar and Previews for the Week Ahead
It is hard to believe already, but another earnings season is coming upon us. With both the DJIA and the S&P 500 up 10% or more in the first quarter, the trend of major companies meeting and...
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J.B. Hunt Muddles Along
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT) reported fiscal first quarter 2013 results after markets closed today. For the quarter, the trucking and transport company posted diluted earnings per...
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Deutsche Bank Transportation and Shipping Stocks to Buy Now
With the summer conference season in full swing, investors will head to Chicago for the Deutsche Bank Industrials conference this week. Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) analysts expect investors to be...
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Credit Suisse Identifies the Next 10 Stocks Likely to Join the S&P 500 Index
One of the big reasons that investors look for stocks that may be added to the S&P 500 is that the stocks that make the cut immediately become targeted by portfolio managers that run static S&P...
View ArticleTop Analyst Upgrades and Stocks to Buy: Aflac, Cisco, Cree, Nike and More
Now that volatility is back in stocks and now that a government shutdown is taking hold, investors and traders alike have to be wondering whether they should be buying stocks. It turns out that many...
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Deutsche Bank Raises Price Targets on Top Transport Stocks to Buy for 2014
Generally during any secular bull market, the industrial stocks that are classified as transports are a leading indicator and usually a leading sector. Transports often give market strategists a...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: First Solar, NII, NRG, Ulta, Under...
Stocks are adjusting to a period of the post-Fed rate hike timing guidance and tensions with Russia. Investors want to make money on the upside, but they want to avoid the bad stocks in the next...
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High-Profile Tech Executives Set the Pace for Insider Stock Selling This Week
When the stock market continues to make new highs over and over, one can certainly expect to see corporate insiders showing up on the insider selling lists. This week is no exception as many top...
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Insider Buying This Week Led by Bill Gates, Cascade Investments
While the market surged to record highs on what is traditionally one of the slowest trading weeks of the year, insiders kept up the pace of buying stock in their respective companies. For investors...
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What CSX and J.B. Hunt Earnings Say About the Economy
In what can be seen as a positive sign for the wider economy, CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT) have both reported better-than-expected earnings. CSX reported...
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Insider Selling Still Climbing as Markets Hit New All-Time Highs
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 at all-time highs, and the Nasdaq closing in on the high from 2000, the fact that insiders continue to take advantage of the move in the...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: BP, CSX, Dollar General, EMC, Sprint, 3D...
Stocks were indicated lower again Wednesday morning after Tuesday’s sell-off. Though this could be the third down day in a row, investors still keep showing that they will buy value stocks and...
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5 Ways to Play the Oil Price Plunge
By Andrew Topf of Oilprice.com The collapse of the oil price has created losers and winners, and like every major movement in a commodity sector, the trick for investors is figuring out which side of...
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Huge Insider Selling as Markets Approach All-Time Highs Again
Needless to say, when a market has an almost six-year run like we have seen, insiders are itching to take some money off the table. With investors witnessing an explosive rally to the upside this week,...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Aduro Bio, Facebook, Lululemon, MGIC,...
Stocks were indicated up on Monday morning after Friday’s sell-off. One trend that has been in place for over three years now is that investors have lined up and bought stocks on weakness. 24/7 Wall...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Cisco, Dollar General, DreamWorks,...
Stocks were trying to stage a rally on Wednesday after several days of weakness. Investors find various reasons to do it but they just keep buying stocks on weakness, a trend that is nearing four years...
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Insiders Heavily Dump Former High-Flyer Biotech Stock
One thing all biotech investors know is that if a binary event like clinical data goes wrong on a company relying on one specific product, then the end may not be that far behind. That was one of the...
View ArticleTop Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amex, Caterpillar, Expedia, Goldman...
Stocks were indicated slightly lower on Monday after bouncing off last week’s lows on Thursday and Friday. Investors have seen every rally in 2016 matched by sellers, but there is that trend for over...
View ArticleHuge Blue Chip Tech Trade Highlights Insider Selling: Microsoft, Diamond...
The tsunami of insider selling that was kicked off when the market broke through to all-time highs slowed down a little last week, but there were still some pretty big waves of executives and...
View ArticleJB Hunt Posts Disappointing Earnings
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT) reported third-quarter 2016 results before markets opened Monday. The trucking and transport company posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.97 on...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Agilent, Carvana, Cloudera, NCS...
Stocks were indicated to open marginally higher on Tuesday despite a deadly terror attack in England. Even with the bull market over eight years old, the reality is that investors have continued to...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: GoPro, KB Home, Rite Aid, Visa, Wynn...
Stocks were looking for direction on Friday, with mixed indications in the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq. The major indexes remain very close to their all-time highs and all are up double-digit percentages...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Adobe, Apple, Bristol-Myers, Citigroup,...
Stocks were indicated to open higher on Monday, and investors understand that the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq are all fighting for all-time highs again. The trend that has ruled without fail for more than...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: American Water Works, JB Hunt, Ford, GM,...
Stocks hit all-time highs many times during 2017, and the last trading day of the year seems to be off to a strong start. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up about 25% and the S&P 500 is up...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Akamai, Barclays, Chevron, Duke Energy,...
Stocks were indicated higher on Thursday after regulators watered down the notion that China would stop buying U.S. debt. The bull market is now less than two months shy of nine years old, and the...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AK Steel, BHP Billiton, Dominion, JB...
Stocks took a hit lower on Monday, but the major indices were looking slightly positive on Tuesday. The bull market is now over nine years old, and investors are still considering how they want to be...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: ADM, Boeing, Hess, LogMeIn, NetApp,...
Stocks were weak on Friday morning ahead of the unemployment and payrolls report, due to an expanded potential of $100 billion more in tariffs against China. The market has been swinging up and down,...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Albermarle, American Airlines, Ellie...
Stocks have been swinging up and down for several days now, but the major indices were indicated to open up on Thursday. The bull market may now be over nine years old, but it has become more obvious...
View ArticleMonday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500
April 16, 2018: The S&P 500 closed up 0.8% at 2,677.96. The DJIA closed up 0.9% at 24,575.90. Separately, the Nasdaq was up 0.7% at 7,156.28. Monday was a positive day for the broad U.S. markets...
View Article12 Companies Warren Buffett Could Buy, or He Would Approve for You to Buy
It’s another day that the markets are open, so it is widely assumed that Warren Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) are out looking for deals to make. Maybe those deals are new...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AEP, CVS, Ecolab, Entergy, Microsoft,...
Stocks were indicated to open marginally higher on Thursday ahead of the release of the highly awaited Mueller report. With the major market indexes still up well into the double-digit percentages year...
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Transportation Worries as Credit Suisse Downgrades Major Trucking Companies
Some investors believe that the transportation sector has to be healthy for the stock market to remain strong. After all, it’s those trucks, trains and planes that move all the goods around the country...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AppFolio, Cisco, Duke Energy, Goodyear,...
Stocks were indicated to open lower on Tuesday after a mixed performance on Monday. The market is getting ready for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates on Wednesday, and a mixed earnings season...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcoa, Apple, Ciena, Cisco, Dave &...
Stocks have been volatile, but the major indexes were last seen trading up about 0.2% on average on Wednesday. With all the volatility in the stock market, and considering that the bull market is well...
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Very Mixed Reactions to Saudi-Attack Oil Price Spike in Transportation Stocks
The weekend attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil production and infrastructure have created major moves in the markets. After all, Saudi Arabia has close to 10% of global production, and roughly half of its...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AMD, Alibaba, AIG, Baidu, Broadcom,...
Stocks have been hitting all-time highs, even after the phase-one trade pact with China was signed. Tuesday’s return after the Martin Luther King extended weekend was seeing profit-taking ahead of the...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alkermes, Aurora Cannabis, BlackRock,...
The futures traded modestly higher on Friday morning as traders and investors surveyed the end of what was, for the most part, a record-breaking week. Concerns over the coronavirus remain in the...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AMD, Cloudflare, Dell, Lending Tree,...
The futures traded modestly higher on Friday morning, as another volatile week on Wall Street is almost over. While many earnings reports have been positive, companies that disappoint are being hit...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Airbnb, Amex, Arch Capital, Carlyle,...
The futures traded solidly higher on Tuesday morning as investors return to action from the long weekend and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. With fourth-quarter earnings reports ready to start...
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Thursday’s Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Applied Materials, Bloom...
The futures were higher Thursday, after another wild day across Wall Street when the risk-on crowd finally thought they had a winning rally, but once again a total late-day reversal. All the major...
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Thursday’s Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Arista Networks, Bumble,...
The futures were lower Thursday, after a huge risk-off rally that was finally able to hold its ground after numerous failed attempts earlier in the week. Wall Street pundits cited the very oversold...
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Wednesday’s Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amazon, Bank of America,...
The futures were up across the board Wednesday, after a massive risk-off rally on Tuesday that was mainly attributed to some positive earnings results despite very oversold market conditions. The rally...
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Chinese Lockdown Problems: Analysts Upgrade or Downgrade Redfin, Rio Tinto...
Markets dropped to start out Tuesday, with the Nasdaq leading the charge lower, down over 2%. While the past couple of weeks have been somewhat disappointing in terms of market performance, earnings...
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Wednesday’s Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Home Depot, Mastercard,...
The futures were lower Wednesday, after a solid risk-off day that saw all the major indexes, the Russell 2000 and the transports end higher. Much of the positive move was prompted by some serious...
View ArticleFriday’s Bounce Back: Analysts Upgrade or Downgrade Bed Bath Beyond, Micron...
Markets were somewhat mixed on Friday, with the Nasdaq pushing higher by more than half a percent. The Dow Jones were relatively flat, while the S&P 500 was marginally higher. This ultimately is...
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Earnings Previews: JB Hunt, Netflix, United Airlines
The three major U.S. equity indexes closed sharply lower on Friday, giving up the gains posted Thursday when the consumer price index report was interpreted as good news. The Dow Jones industrials...
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Before the Bell: Alcoa Stock Hammered, Crypto Beef Between Genesis and Gemini...
Premarket action on Thursday had the three major U.S. indexes trading lower. The Dow Jones industrials were down 0.64%, the S&P 500 down 0.7% and the Nasdaq 0.82% lower. All 11 market sectors...
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JB Hunt, Omnicom, United Airlines to Report Earnings Tuesday Afternoon
Hundreds of earnings reports will be released this week. Among the most anticipated are reports from Tesla and Netflix. We will have coverage of these reports as they get closer. In this report, we...
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