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UBS has reiterated a Buy rating and a $77.00 price target on Birkenstock Holding plc ahead of the company’s first-quarter earnings release scheduled for February 12. The bank expects results broadly in line with company pre-announcements and does not foresee a revision to the fiscal 2026 outlook. Multiple other firms and rating agencies have also r…
BMO Capital Partners reduced its 12-month price target for GrafTech (EAF) to $10 from $15 while maintaining a Market Perform rating, citing a Q4 2025 earnings miss and a mixed outlook for 2026. The stock has tumbled sharply in the last week and the company reported deeply negative profitability metrics over the last twelve months and a sizeable net…
Barclays has kept an Equalweight rating and a $68.00 price target on Kroger (KR), describing the appointment of Greg Foran as CEO as an "incremental positive" and characterizing the leadership change as the "best case scenario" given Foran's background and parallels to Walmart at a similar stage of evolution. The bank outlined operational and comme…
Williams Trading raised its price target on Under Armour (NYSE:UAA) to $10.00 from $8.00 and retained a Buy rating, pointing to marketing initiatives designed to build brand loyalty—including a new commercial tied to U.S. Women’s Flag Football—and localized in-store efforts that highlight the company's ties to 3,000 high school football teams. The …
BMO Capital raised its Marathon Petroleum (MPC) price target to $225.00 from $200.00 and kept an Outperform rating after the company reported stronger-than-expected fourth quarter 2025 results and provided optimistic first quarter 2026 guidance. The firm boosted 2026 and later EPS and EBITDA estimates, driven mainly by refining, while trimming its …
BMO Capital raised its price target on Black Hills Corp to $84 from $82 and maintained an Outperform rating, pointing to growing confidence in the utility’s microgrid management fee and potential data center revenue. The firm’s move follows fiscal year results that matched guidance midpoint and 2026 guidance signaling modest earnings growth, even a…
W&T Offshore (WTI) is a small-cap Gulf of Mexico producer with a levered balance sheet and a cheap trading multiple. If oil prices regain momentum, WTI stands to re-rate quickly — but the trade carries execution and credit risk. This plan lays out a mid-term swing trade (45 trading days) that targets a run past last year’s highs while capping downs…
UBS raised its 12-month price objective on CBOE Holdings to $290 from $280 while retaining a Neutral stance. The move comes after the company posted stronger-than-expected trading volumes and quarterly results, prompting upward revisions to UBS's forward estimates even as expected expense reductions tied to business exits have not fully appeared.
Dynatrace reported third-quarter results that beat expectations across key metrics, driving a roughly 9% pre-market increase in the stock. The company delivered above-consensus ARR and revenue growth, maintained healthy unit economics and announced a substantial share-repurchase program expansion while raising full-year fiscal 2026 guidance.
Becton Dickinson (BDX) shares slipped about 5% in pre-market trade after the company reported fiscal Q1 2026 results. While the medical technology firm beat consensus on revenue and adjusted EPS, its fiscal Q2 revenue outlook and ongoing margin questions weighed on investor sentiment. RBC Capital left its Sector Perform rating intact and held a $21…
TD Cowen reaffirmed a Hold rating and a $168 price target for Chevron (CVX), a level below the stock's current trading price and near its 52-week high. The firm emphasized Chevron's emphasis on margin expansion rather than production growth, noted a pause on Venezuela capital allocation for 18-24 months, and highlighted the company’s continued focu…
TD Cowen has reaffirmed a Buy rating and $70.00 price target on Novo Nordisk (NVO) following signals from the FDA that it may clamp down on compounded GLP-1 therapies. The move follows a Department of Justice referral that prompted HIMS to stop selling compounded oral semaglutide. While the development is viewed positively for branded manufacturers…
Slovak central bank governor Peter Kazimir said the European Central Bank would need a significant deviation in economic or inflation trajectories before considering a change in policy, reiterating views days after the ECB left interest rates unchanged and signalled steady policy while expecting inflation to remain near its 2% goal.
Morocco's equity market closed modestly higher on Monday, with the Moroccan All Shares index gaining 0.18% in Casablanca. Gains were concentrated in the Banking, Beverage and Transport sectors. Mining and consumer names produced the session’s strongest individual moves, while several construction and transport-related stocks weighed on the downside…
Foremost Clean Energy announced a 5,000-metre diamond drilling campaign at its Hatchet Lake Uranium Project in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin, prompting a 9.2% rise in its stock. The program, set to begin in mid-February, will focus on follow-up drilling at the Tuning Fork discovery area and additional targets at Beta Grid and Richardson SE, levera…
Peter Kazimir, governor of Slovakia's central bank and an ECB policymaker, said on Monday that only a sizeable departure from the ECB's baseline economic and inflation outlook would justify a change to the current monetary policy stance. He reiterated that inflation risks are balanced but conditional on favorable energy prices, and warned that unce…
RBC Capital has raised its price target on Flowserve Corp. to $96 from $83 and retained an Outperform rating after the company's fourth-quarter 2025 operational outperformance and upbeat guidance for 2026. The firm highlighted ambitious 2030 margin targets, a $490 million acquisition of Trillium, and solid growth across power/nuclear, energy and ge…
Bernstein SocGen Group trimmed its price target on HubSpot Inc to $448 from $602 while retaining an Outperform rating ahead of the company's Q4 2025 results. The move comes amid a sharp pullback in the stock over the past month and year, continued AI-related uncertainty across software vendors, and a recalibration of software sector multiples. Othe…
William Blair reaffirmed an Outperform rating on Northern Oil and Gas (NYSE: NOG), projecting stable fourth-quarter 2025 results and a 2026 production ramp tied to higher early-year capital spending. The company’s recent Ohio Utica Shale acquisition, larger hedging positions and a 7% dividend yield factor into analyst views even as several firms cu…
Truist Securities has reiterated its Buy rating on Vail Resorts (MTN) and kept a $234.00 price target after a meeting with the company’s chief financial officer in Vail, Colorado. The target implies roughly 69% upside from the stock’s current price of $137.99. Truist and other brokers weighed improving commercial tactics and pass-sale momentum agai…
RBC Capital has increased its 12-month price target for nVent Electric (NVT) to $138 from $136 while retaining an Outperform rating. The new target implies roughly a 19.7% upside from the current share price of $115.31. RBC points to robust datacenter-related demand, a large and growing backlog and accelerating organic revenue as the primary driver…
Wolfe Research upgraded Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) from Peerperform to Outperform, assigning a $19.00 price target that implies roughly an 18% total return to year-end 2026. The firm cites what it views as an attractive valuation and growth profile, noting the stock's low PEG ratio and an apparent gap between historical pricing and forward exp…
BTIG has reaffirmed a Buy rating on Dynatrace Inc. (DT) and set a $67 price target, pointing to artificial intelligence as a catalyst for the company’s core Application Performance Monitoring business. The target implies roughly an 87% increase from the stock’s cited level, while recent analyst moves and the company’s upcoming quarterly report fram…
Safe Harbor Financial's shares climbed after the Denver-based cannabis fintech platform reached an amended commercial agreement with Partner Colorado Credit Union that extends the partnership through December 2031, increases interest income participation to as much as 65%, and is expected to produce $9 million in additional revenue over the life of…
Amazon fell into a broad AI-capex panic despite AWS showing healthy monetization and high margins. The stock is oversold (RSI ~27), trading well below its moving averages, and the pullback offers a controlled, asymmetric trade with a mid-term horizon. Entry at $205.65, stop at $195.00, target $255.00.
