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Truist Securities has reiterated a Buy rating on Cytokinetics with an $84.00 price target — implying roughly 28% upside from the stock's prevailing price of $65.64. The firm points to growing clinical preference for Myqorzo (aficamten) versus Bristol Myers Squibb's Camzyos among new hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patient starts, and it says positive k…
Freedom Capital Markets raised its rating on Netflix from Hold to Buy even as it slashed the firm’s price target to $104 from $1,070. The action comes after Netflix reported Q4 FY2025 results that beat consensus across key metrics, including subscriber expansion and advertising growth, but management issued cautious forward guidance and signaled hi…
TD Cowen raised its price objective on Option Care Health to $37 from $27 and kept a Hold rating, citing the company’s preliminary 2026 guidance and stronger-than-expected adjusted EBITDA outlook. Other brokerages have also adjusted targets and ratings following preliminary fourth-quarter results and updated cash-flow forecasts tied to strategic in…
TD Cowen has increased its price target for BrightSpring Health (BTSG) to $46 from $42 while keeping a Buy rating, pointing to continued fourth-quarter momentum driven by specialty oncology generics, a ramp in Limited Distribution Drugs, and improved Infusion segment performance. The firm projects adjusted EBITDA of $188 million for the quarter ver…
Trading on Tuesday produced sharp moves across market-cap bands, with large healthcare insurers among the weakest names after policy news and a mix of gains in semiconductors, cloud and data center-related stocks. Mega-cap losses included UnitedHealth, while Humana and CVS were large-cap decliners. A range of mid- and small-cap companies also recor…
Citigroup has enacted a broad reshuffle of its corporate banking leadership under Vis Raghavan, the executive recruited from JPMorgan Chase. The changes install co-heads for corporate banking, name global chairs for investment and corporate banking, and reassign senior North American roles as the bank pursues improved returns under CEO Jane Fraser.
Lyft is building a Teen rides feature that will allow teenagers to use the platform by pairing them with highly rated drivers and providing parents with real-time tracking, pickup and drop-off notifications, and options to contact drivers. The capability, spotted in the latest Lyft app code, marks a policy reversal for Lyft, which previously barred…
Turkey's main stock index closed lower on Tuesday, dragged down by losses in the Technology, Wood, Paper & Printing and Insurance sectors. The BIST 100 fell 0.53% as decliners outnumbered advancers by a wide margin, though several individual stocks posted strong gains and a pair reached all-time highs.
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…
