Benzinga

MARCH 13, 2024

Mizuho Securities analyst Nitin Kumar downgraded EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT ) to Neutral from Buy and cut the price target to $39 from $46. The rating downgrade reflects the company’s FY23 reserves, 2024 guidance, and the proposed merger with Equitrans Midstream Corporation (NYSE: ETRN ). Full story available on Benzinga.com

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Benzinga

MARCH 27, 2024

Following the slight underperformance of the stock, its valuation appears “more compelling,” given the latest commodity price assumptions, according to BMO Capital Markets. Royal Gold Inc (NASDAQ: RGLD ) announced its second-quarter dividend.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Twitter Ananlyst: To give effect to the development, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives raised his price target for the Twitter stock from $50 to $54.20. The analyst maintained his Neutral rating on the shares. (NASDAQ: TWTR ) for the originally agreed price of $44 billion. The Twitter Thesis: Tesla Inc.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 21, 2022

While GFL Environmental Inc’s (NYSE: GFL ) stock has significantly underperformed peers year to date, many of the concerns weighing on sentiment are likely to improve over the next six to twelve months, according to BofA Securities.

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Value Scope

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As a follow up to our more comprehensive 2017 paper and 2018 paper , this paper will strictly focus on the historical and current relationship between the S&P 500 P/E Ratio and US Interest Rates, updated to November 2022. P/E ratios have demonstrated an inverse relationship to interest rates. However, only 22.4%

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Benzinga

JULY 8, 2022

NYSE: TWTR ) shareholders in the summer to approve the take-private deal, an analyst at Wedbush said he sees a "greater looming uncertainty" surrounding the completion of the transaction. The Twitter Analyst: Daniel Ives maintained a Neutral rating on Twitter shares and reduced the price target from $54 to $43.

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Benzinga

JANUARY 22, 2024

Investors remained focused on iRobot’s plan B, if any, as per Needham analyst James Ricchuiti. The analyst had a Hold rating on iRobot stock.

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The analyst retained an "Overweight" rating on the company's stock while keeping his price target of $15. . 's (TSX: XLY) (OTCQX: CBWTF ) and Columbia Care Inc. 's 's (OTCQX: CCHWF ) quarterly performance reports. Cresco Labs Inc (OTCMKTS: CRLBF).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 21, 2023

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Benzinga

AUGUST 1, 2023

DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc (NYSE: DV ) stock is trading lower Tuesday after it reported quarterly earnings of $0.07 DoubleVerify agreed to acquire Scibids Technology sas in cash and stock transaction valued at $125 million, with additional potential consideration based on certain performance metrics.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Okta Analyst: Alex Henderson upgraded the rating for Okta from Hold to Buy, while establishing a price target of $90. Check out other analyst stock ratings. Management’s revenue growth guidance of 16%-17% appears conservative, according to Needham. The Okta Thesis: Although the.

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Third quarter earnings season is slowly wrapping up and analysts are tweaking their ratings accordingly. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Pablo Zuanic kicked off the week by taking a closer look at two cannabis stocks. Auxly Cannabis Group Inc (OTC: CBWTF ).

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Benzinga

JULY 29, 2022

iPhone Now A Necessity: CEO Tim Cook said on the earnings call there was no evidence of a macroeconomic impact on iPhone sales during the quarter besides forex , the analyst-turned-tech veture capitalist said. Visit Benzinga's Analysts Stock Ratings page for market-moving sell-side action.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 16, 2022

’s (NASDAQ: SGEN ) stock may offer a nearer-term opportunity, but the biotech's position as an attractive strategic target is “too intriguing to ignore.” ” That's according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Gregory Renza who named Merck & Co. NYSE: MRK ) as a fitting buyer.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 12, 2022

’s (NASDAQ: DOCU ) stock has limited downside as the negative catalysts have already played out, according to Wedbush. The Analyst: Daniel Ives upgraded the rating for DocuSign from Underperform to Neutral, while maintaining the price target at $55. DocuSign Inc.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. While these seven stocks had an exceptional year in 2023, their outperformance stretches back for a much longer period.

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Benzinga

JULY 26, 2023

PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ: PACW ) and Banc Of California Inc (NYSE: BANC ) entered into a definitive agreement late Tuesday to combine in an all-stock merger transaction. Wedbush Wedbush analyst David Chiaverini views the business combination as fair, but not "overwhelmingly attractive" for PacWest shareholders.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the first half of the year, we had positive surprises on both fronts, as inflation dropped after than expected and the economy stayed resilient, allowing for a comeback on stocks, which I wrote about in a post in July 2023.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

NASDAQ: LYFT ) stock has significantly outperformed peers, rising 14% on a potential takeover bid, despite no sources validating these speculations, according to Bank of America Securities. The Analyst: Michael McGovern maintained an Underperform rating for Lyft, with the price target unchanged at $14.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 19, 2022

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021).

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Peak Business Valuation

JULY 21, 2023

Moving forward, we can expect these metrics to continue growing at a steady rate. How to Value a Convenience Store At Peak Business Valuation , analysts often use the market approach and/or the income approach to value a convenience store. Stock Control: It is important for convenience stores to have good stock control.

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Valutico

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It narrowly missed analysts’ expectations and the market punished it with a 5% drop in the share price within the first two days of publishing its results. Lockheed Martin stock has been a strong performer in 2022, gaining 13% compared to the broader S&P which has declined by 23%. Valutico Analysis. A WACC of 5.7%

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 29, 2024

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Valutico

AUGUST 4, 2022

Microsoft shares rose 5% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software maker issued an upbeat earnings forecast for the year ahead, despite its quarterly results falling short of analysts’ expectations. per share as expected by analysts. billion expected by analysts. per share, adjusted, versus $2.29 Revenue: $51.87

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Equilest

OCTOBER 22, 2023

By discounting expected future cash flows to present value, the DCF method enables investors, analysts, and companies to make informed decisions about buying or selling assets. Analysts can customize the model to fit various scenarios and risk profiles. Determining the appropriate discount rate can be a subjective and challenging task.

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Peak Business Valuation

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Peak, our valuation analysts often utilize the market approach and/or the income approach. If the business is privately owned, the valuation analyst gathers data from private transaction databases. When valuing an RV dealership with the income approach, a valuation analyst assesses the earning potential of an RV dealership.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 6, 2022

The good news is that the culprit behind the volatility is easy to identify, and it is inflation, but the bad news is that inflation remains the most unpredictable of all macroeconomic factors to factor into stock prices and value. We have had a long stretch of low and stable inflation, and that is especially true since the 2008 crisis.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 14, 2024

Typically, these cases involve a defendant who is an employee or agent of a company undertaking a takeover, and the defendant buys stock in the target of the takeover, using information that he learned from his client, the prospective bidder. The defendant sells short the stock of one of these smaller firms and makes a hefty profit.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2024

Class-action litigation for fraud on the market typically focuses on purchasers and sellers of stock. In February 2022, the district court certified a class consisting of purchasers of stock during the relevant period. Yet those that traded in options on the shares can also be harmed. Securities Litigation (N.D. John Fund v.

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Valutico

JULY 15, 2022

Just over a year after its IPO via direct listing in April 2021, Coinbase shares have already received their first sell recommendation from an analyst. As the global economy has shifted to a risk-off approach in light of inflationary and supply chain pressures, crypto and crypto-related stocks have suffered the most. The fact that U.S.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023 , driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound. Analysts often try to bring company-specific components, i.e,

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Peak Business Valuation

MARCH 19, 2024

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Louis (FRED) On every measure, inflation exploded in the first half of 2022, with a leveling off, albeit at high rates in the summer. The most critical fundamental, and the one that best explains big movements in rates, over time, is expected inflation.

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Valutico

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

That is until last week’s announcement of Adobe’s biggest ever investment, a cool $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for Figma, a little-known software startup that helps creatives collaborate, spooked investors and resulted in a 25% share price drop in one week. The stock is now 47% down year-to-date.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 24, 2024

As we start 2024, the interest rate prognosticators who misread the bond markets so badly in 2023 are back to making their 2024 forecasts, and they show no evidence of having learned any lessons from the last year.

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

WACC considers the costs associated with different components of a firm’s capital structure, such as debt, equity, and preferred stock, and weighs them according to their proportion. The WACC is used as the discount rate in a DCF analysis.

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

WACC considers the costs associated with different components of a firm’s capital structure, such as debt, equity, and preferred stock, and weighs them according to their proportion. The WACC is used as the discount rate in a DCF analysis.

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