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TD Cowen reduced its price target on Alphatec Holdings (ATEC) from $27.00 to $20.00 while leaving its Buy rating intact. The cut - a 26% reduction from the prior target - comes amid questions about the premium investors should pay for a high-growth spine surgery company, even as Alphatec posts strong revenue gains and guidance that beats consensus.…
Freedom Capital Markets has increased its 12-month price objective for Johnson & Johnson to $220 from $190 while retaining a Hold recommendation. The firm pointed to consecutive revenue beats in 2025, strength in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, and potential regulatory and label catalysts, but noted valuation multiples are close to historical high…
Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage of fintech and payments stocks, arguing that blockchain and artificial intelligence are driving a fundamental redesign of how money and assets move across accounts, balance sheets, and jurisdictions. The firm warns the change is obscured to many end users by modern interfaces built atop legacy systems, and ident…
Western Alliance (WAL) is acting like a regional bank that has regained its footing: the stock is holding above rising intermediate-term averages, valuation is still modest at ~11x earnings, and sentiment remains cautious enough to fuel upside if the market keeps warming to financials. With shares pulling back to the high-$80s, I like this as an up…
Shares of Global Interactive Technologies, Inc. (GITS) rocketed after the company announced a collaboration with K-pop group ATEEZ to create the official theme song for its forthcoming animated feature "The Legend of MegaRace." The agreement grants GITS ownership of the master recordings and broad global rights for distribution, use and commerciali…
Stifel has lowered its price target for Etsy to $62 from $65 while maintaining a Hold rating. The brokerage cited improving monthly active user trends for both the core Etsy app and Depop but left its financial estimates unchanged. Etsy is trading at $57.83 and is below its Fair Value amid recent volatility. Separately, the company authorized up to…
Stifel has reduced its 12-month price target for Life360 to $76 from $92 while keeping a Hold rating, citing monthly active user (MAU) trends as the main pressure point. The move follows the company's preliminary fourth-quarter results and management guidance for 20% MAU growth in 2026, which exceeds Street estimates. Other firms remain divided, wi…
Stifel has reduced its 12-month price objective for DoorDash Inc. (NASDAQ: DASH) from $253 to $224 while maintaining a Hold rating. The revised target still sits above DoorDash's then-current share price of $207.55, though InvestingPro valuation metrics indicate the stock is trading near fair value. Stifel's cut reflects caution around the financia…
Stifel raised its price target for Amazon.com to $300 from $295 and kept a Buy rating, pointing to gains in the company’s advertising business, a healthy fourth-quarter e-commerce backdrop and continued strength in AWS. The revised target implies roughly 24% upside from Amazon’s current price of $241.10 and comes ahead of the company’s Q4 results d…
Stifel reduced its price target on Instacart (NASDAQ:CART) to $46.00 from $49.00 on Tuesday while keeping a Buy rating. The new target aligns with InvestingPro's Fair Value assessment and implies upside from the stock's current trading level of $37.85. Stifel cited ongoing competitive pressures but left its financial estimates unchanged, projecting…
Stifel lowered its 12-month price target for Uber Inc. to $105 from $122 while maintaining a Buy rating. The new target still implies meaningful upside from Uber's trading level of $80.75, and the firm left its financial estimates unchanged, framing the move as a valuation reset rather than a change in performance expectations. Stifel highlighted t…
Zscaler Inc. shares climbed 5% Tuesday following the launch of the AI Security Suite, a set of tools intended to give organizations visibility and control over generative AI services, development environments, and embedded AI inside SaaS. The product rollout follows findings from Zscaler’s ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report, which reported critical…
A report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds Canada is on track to be roughly 90,000 child-care spaces short of its five-year expansion target by spring 2026. Provinces had agreed to create more than 284,000 new spaces by March 31, 2026, predominantly in non-profit and public settings, but only 194,000 had been delivered six mont…
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its symbolic Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest setting yet. The Chicago-based group cited rising tensions among nuclear-armed states, erosion of arms control frameworks, active conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, and growing concerns about unregulated military uses of arti…
Freedom Capital Markets lowered its recommendation on SLB from Hold to Sell while nudging its price target up to $48 from $47. The downgrade follows Schlumberger's weak fourth-quarter 2025 results, including a 15.2% year-over-year decline in adjusted EPS and a modest gross profit margin, and reflects concerns that tepid global drilling activity wil…
BWS Financial has launched coverage of American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL) with a Buy rating and a $17 price objective, citing the company’s pending merger with Dowlais Group plc as a strategic move that should broaden customer exposure and expand product and geographic reach. The firm highlights recent margin-focused bidding changes that compresse…
Shares of several grocery chains and delivery platforms fell after Amazon announced a broad expansion of its grocery delivery services, plans to open more than 100 new Whole Foods Market stores, and the wind-down of Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical outlets. The move includes growth in Same-Day Delivery for perishables, testing an ultra-fast 'Ama…
Moroccan equities closed higher on Tuesday, with the Moroccan All Shares index rising 1.26% at the Casablanca close. Gains concentrated in Banking, Beverage and Transport names pushed the market upward, while a handful of stocks in industrial and services segments registered the session's largest declines. Commodity and currency moves accompanied t…
Needham & Company upgraded Affirm from Hold to Buy after the company applied for a bank charter, arguing that an FDIC-insured deposit base could materially change Affirm's funding costs, accelerate product integration, and boost long-term earnings potential. The firm set a $100 price target and highlighted potential funding cost savings and product…
Citi has lifted its near-term silver price objective to $150 an ounce, citing continued momentum driven mainly by capital flows and retail investment. The bank expects a further 30-40% increase over the next 0-3 months, while saying a rise to around $300 an ounce would be an extremely unlikely outcome. The rally has already sent silver to roughly $…
Tractor Supply has quietly rebuilt upside momentum into earnings while fundamentals still read like a quality compounder: strong ROE (about 43%), solid ROA (about 10%), and manageable leverage (debt-to-equity ~0.69). At roughly $29B market cap and ~26.6x earnings, the stock isn’t cheap, but it looks reasonable if 2026 guidance supports accelerating…
Mizuho raised its price target on Seagate Technology to $400 from $370 while retaining an Outperform rating, pointing to artificial intelligence demand as a key driver of higher average selling prices in the hard disk drive market. The firm bases the new target on 26 times fiscal 2027 EPS and highlights third-market pricing showing quarter-over-qua…
Bernstein has reiterated its Outperform rating on Figure Technology (NASDAQ:FIGR) and set a $72.00 price target, implying roughly 15% upside from the current share price of $62.49. The firm named Figure its "top pick for 2026," citing the company’s focus as a "pure play tokenization platform for credit," and highlighted new product development and …
Bernstein SocGen Group reiterated an Outperform rating on SanDisk (SNDK) and set a $580 price target, signaling potential upside from the current share price. The firm pointed to an "unprecedented NAND upcycle" driven by AI workloads and constrained supply, while several other brokerages have also raised price targets or adjusted coverage amid stro…
Mizuho has increased its price objective for Western Digital Corp. to $265 from $240 and kept an Outperform rating, pointing to artificial intelligence-driven demand as a catalyst for higher nearline hard disk drive average selling prices. The move comes amid a broader wave of analyst upgrades and price-target raises, while the stock has already ra…
