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Truist Securities increased its 12-month price target for Mercury Systems (MRCY) to $109 from $102 and retained a Buy rating following fiscal second-quarter 2026 results that outperformed consensus across the board. The company reported robust free cash flow over the last twelve months and solid year-over-year growth in domestic demand, even as man…
Truist Securities reduced its price target for Intapp Inc. to $35 from $68 while retaining a Buy rating, citing solid second-quarter fundamentals including a 31% year-over-year increase in Cloud ARR and 28% SaaS revenue growth. The move follows steep recent share declines and comes alongside other analyst target reductions even as Intapp beat Q2 EP…
Cantor Fitzgerald increased its price objective for Teradyne to $330 from $270 and kept an Overweight rating after the company issued a robust guide for the first quarter of 2026. The firm pointed to Teradyne's accelerating pivot into artificial intelligence - which made up more than 60% of revenue in Q4 2025 and is expected to exceed 70% in Q1 202…
Stifel reiterated a Buy rating and set a $120.00 price target for Veralto Corp. (NYSE: VLTO) after the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that exceeded certain profit expectations. Veralto delivered adjusted EPS of $1.04 on $1.40 billion of revenue, issued 2026 guidance that tops some analyst estimates and flagged that the outlook include…
Truist Securities has reiterated a Buy rating and $29.00 price target on Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ: XNCR), pointing to growing momentum around TL1A×IL-23p bispecifics and a busy clinical calendar. With the stock trading at $11.74, the $29 target implies nearly 147% upside. Truist highlighted recent industry activity around TL1A assets, new bispecific da…
Cantor Fitzgerald has reiterated an Overweight rating on JFrog (FROG) and kept a $80.00 price target ahead of the company's Q4 2025 results scheduled for February 12. The target implies roughly 56% upside from the current $51.26 share price, which slid 13.8% in the prior week. The firm expects AI-driven usage tailwinds, contract renegotiations, and…
BMO Capital has reduced its price objective for Ingredion to $120 from $123 while retaining a Market Perform rating. The move follows a mixed fourth-quarter report that included an EPS print of $2.53 versus a $2.60 consensus and weakness across the Texturants and Hydrocolloids Solutions (T&HS) and Food and Industrial segments in North America. Ingr…
A steep selloff in software company loans has pushed $17.7 billion of US tech debt into distressed territory over the past four weeks, increasing the total amount of tech loans trading as distressed to about $46.9 billion. The move has been concentrated in software-as-a-service firms, a group market participants see as sensitive to disruption from …
CAE has been knocked lower by headline-driven flows and heavier shorting, but the business remains exposed to secular growth in simulation and training (civil aviation, defense, healthcare). At a $9.9B market cap, with a P/E near 32 and a wide runway in adjacent markets, the risk-reward favors a mid-term long from current levels. Entry $30.50, stop…
Stocks across market-cap ranges recorded sizable intraday swings on Wednesday. Mega-cap winners included Eli Lilly and PepsiCo, while Advanced Micro Devices and other technology and health names slid. Large-, mid- and small-cap lists likewise showed a mix of sharp gains and steep declines, with notable beats and guidance reactions among companies r…
Truist recommends purchasing shares of AMD following a messy but ultimately encouraging fourth quarter, arguing that the company’s long-term earnings trajectory outweighs short-term imperfections. Analyst William Stein projects roughly 45% earnings CAGR through CY30, and the firm raised its 2027 earnings estimate and price target while acknowledgin…
Turkey's BIST 100 closed modestly higher, rising 0.11% to reach a new all-time high. Gains were concentrated in the Holdings & Investments, Leasing & Factoring and Technology sectors, while several individual stocks posted notable moves both up and down. Commodity and currency markets showed moderate movement, with gold and oil prices rising and th…
BMO Capital Management increased its price target on Take-Two Interactive to $280 from $275 and reiterated an Outperform rating following fiscal third-quarter results that beat consensus on bookings and operating income. Multiple brokerages reaffirmed positive ratings, while the stock’s short-term decline has left valuation and AI-related concerns …
Stifel has reaffirmed its Buy rating on Microchip Technology (NASDAQ:MCHP) and maintained a $90.00 price target ahead of the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings. The firm models sequential revenue and EPS gains for the December quarter, expects continued sequential growth in the March quarter, and highlights Microchip’s end-market mix as suppor…
Stifel has reiterated a Hold rating on NXP Semiconductors with a 12-month price target of $215, citing valuation constraints even after better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. While NXP beat revenue and earnings expectations for the quarter, the firm describes the company’s guidance for the first quarter as conservative relative to signals fro…
BMO Capital raised its price target on ExxonMobil to $155.00 from $125.00 while retaining a Market Perform rating after reviewing the company's quarterly results and meeting with incoming CFO Neil Hansen. The firm slightly raised its 2026 and longer-term estimates, citing ExxonMobil's portfolio and execution. The move comes amid other broker revisi…
BMO Capital lowered its price target on Atlassian (TEAM) to $135 from $195 while retaining an Outperform rating, citing a cautious outlook driven by negative sentiment. The firm sees only modest upside for the upcoming quarter and says repeated revenue beats will likely be necessary to materially reprice the stock even as Atlassian reports robust g…
BMO Capital reiterated a Market Perform rating and a $57.00 price target on Novo Nordisk, noting that the company exceeded fourth-quarter revenue and earnings estimates by roughly 3% but issued 2026 guidance below Street expectations. The Danish drugmaker trades at a P/E of 12.82 and faces U.S. pricing pressures that BMO says will weigh on topline …
BMO Capital lowered its 12-month price target for Oracle to $205 from $270 but left its Outperform rating intact following the company’s recent capital raise. The firm highlighted outsized investor interest in Oracle’s debt offering and said the successful raise reduces the need for further financing through calendar 2026, even as it trimmed earnin…
Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area weakened noticeably in January, with seasonally adjusted transactions down 9.9% from December to 4,795 units and the TRREB home price index sliding 1.7% month-over-month to C$941,200. The region recorded its lowest sales level since May and the price index posted its eighth consecutive monthly decline, while y…
Levi Strauss shares rose more than 2% on Wednesday after Jefferies initiated coverage with a Buy rating. The firm forecasts long-term annual revenue growth of roughly 4%-5% or higher, operating margins moving toward 15%, and sets a $25 price target, citing the companys direct-to-consumer expansion, product premiumisation and favorable denim trends…
Medifast is trading with an enterprise value that looks tiny relative to its market capitalization and liquidity metrics. The market appears to be pricing in an extreme deterioration in the business; that offers a defined-risk long trade with upside to the prior range if the company stabilizes coach metrics or posts a clean quarter. Entry at $11.10…
Full Truck Alliance (YMM) looks set for a bounce. Institutional buys, solid top-line growth (Q3 revenue +10.8%), and a cash-heavy balance sheet support a mid-term long. Technicals show dip momentum fading (RSI ~38, MACD histogram turned positive) while shares trade nearer the 52-week low. This trade targets a reclaim toward the mid-$13s with a tigh…
Bank of America Securities says recent appreciation in the Chinese yuan, supported by strong export flows and firmer policy signals, is likely to be an important driver for the foreign exchange landscape in both the near term and longer run. The People’s Bank of China set a firmer midpoint for the yuan, and BofA has revised its end-Q3 and Q4 USD/CN…
TD Cowen increased its price objective for Mondelez International to $65.00 from $62.00 while retaining a Buy rating. The move follows Mondelez's 2026 guidance, which projects modest organic growth and limited EPS expansion as the company plans substantial reinvestment. Analysts have reacted with mixed adjustments to targets and estimates as invest…
