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KeyBanc Capital Markets' January survey of 1,056 U.S. consumers found a rebound in holiday spending and plans to raise outlays over the next three months across a broad set of categories. Analysts point to forthcoming policy-driven tax-refund increases that could add 2-4% to retail sales in early 2026, and KeyBanc highlights winners among retailers…
KeyBanc Capital Markets has kept its Sector Weight rating on Verizon Communications, citing limited growth visibility into 2026. The firm expects flat Wireless Service revenue next year and year-over-year declines in VCG ARPA, and projects adjusted EBITDA growth that trails consensus unless Frontier is included. Verizon reports quarterly results in…
KeyBanc Capital Markets reduced its price target on Meta Platforms Inc. to $835 from $875 while retaining an Overweight rating. The firm judges the market has already priced in the company’s heavy AI-related investment program, but ongoing investor concern about operating expense trajectories and a relatively rich valuation versus peers keep near-t…
JPMorgan’s equity research team has published its latest monthly roster of technology stocks it views as compelling. The list spans cloud and enterprise software, semiconductors and digital intelligence, and it includes companies at various stages of growth and capital allocation activity. Analysts cited recent quarterly results, activist interest,…
Arrive AI Inc saw its shares rise 15% in Monday premarket trading after CEO Dan O’Toole unveiled the company’s 'Plai Book,' a strategic playbook the company says will guide its expansion in autonomous last-mile delivery. The plan centers on five operating principles, an aggressive intellectual property posture and a strategic footprint in Fishers, …
Director Lawrence Cheng purchased 5,000 shares of GameStop Corp. on January 23, 2026, in a transaction valued at $114,368, according to a Form 4 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The buy was executed at a weighted average price of $22.8737 per share. Separately, Chairman and CEO Ryan Cohen disclosed performance-based stock awards …
Needham & Company upgraded AppLovin to a Buy rating and raised its price target to $700, driven by revised forecasts that project stronger e-commerce revenue in 2026. The firm now expects $1.45 billion in e-commerce revenue for 2026, up from a prior $1.05 billion estimate, and highlights signs of sequential strength into the first quarter and new b…
Nucor (NUE) is pressing against fresh 52-week highs near $183 with strong trend support underneath. With bullish momentum signals (RSI ~71, MACD positive), a reasonable balance sheet (debt-to-equity ~0.33), and a market narrative shifting toward a 2026 recovery, the risk/reward sets up for a mid-term breakout attempt. This trade idea targets ~$209,…
Roblox Corporation shares declined 2.5% on Monday following reports of a drop in peak concurrent users (CCUs) over the weekend. Analysts from JPMorgan and Wolfe Research flagged lower weekend peaks and a moderation in year-over-year engagement growth, with declines concentrated in several major experiences even as one title expanded its user base.
KeyBanc reiterated a Sector Weight rating on Charter Communications ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 results due January 30, citing an intensifying broadband competitive landscape in 2026 and balance sheet pressures. While InvestingPro data flags attractive cash flow metrics and value signals, the bank warns that accelerating fiber-to-the…
KeyBanc raised its price objective on Alphabet to $360 from $330 while maintaining an Overweight recommendation, highlighting structural advantages in artificial intelligence and an improving revenue mix driven by Google Cloud. The firm’s valuation work points to a higher sustainable P/E as AI boosts ad volumes and pricing; other analysts have issu…
Intel’s stock is sitting in the uncomfortable middle ground: not cheap enough to ignore execution risk, but still priced like the comeback could be real. 2026 is shaping up as a proof year for Intel Foundry Services, with management signaling that 14A ramps depend on confirmed customer demand and that meaningful commitments are expected in the back…
Century Aluminum will take a 40% stake in Emirates Global Aluminium’s joint venture to construct the first new primary aluminium smelter in the United States in nearly five decades. The partners have increased the planned annual capacity to 750,000 metric tons, with construction slated to begin by year-end and production targeted by the end of the …
KeyBanc Capital Markets has raised its rating on Solvay (NYSE:SOLV) from Sector Weight to Overweight in its 2026 Medical Technology outlook. The bank highlights a narrowing of the sector's valuation premium, stronger underlying demand signs in late 2025, and an uptick in M&A as supporting a selective stock-picking strategy. The report also names se…
BofA Securities trimmed its price target on Unity Software (U) to $18 from $21 and retained an Underperform rating, citing a steep valuation and limited margin for growth setbacks in Unity’s Vector product. The move contrasts with several other firms that have recently upgraded the stock and raised targets as they express confidence in Vector-drive…
OpenAI is charging advertisers premium fees for placing ads inside ChatGPT, with rates reported to be on par with high-value video inventory such as NFL programming and higher than fees charged by competitors like Meta. Early advertisers are being given only high-level metrics - primarily impressions and aggregate click counts - rather than detaile…
Silicon Labs (SLAB) looks like a pragmatic mid-term IoT recovery trade: a focused wireless IoT portfolio, a balance sheet with no leverage (debt-to-equity 0), and improving technical structure above key moving averages. Valuation is not cheap on sales and cash flow, but the market is paying for operating leverage into a cyclical upturn and design-w…
William M. Gottwald, a roughly 10% owner of Tredegar Corp (TG), sold 79,092 shares across January 22-23, 2026, realizing $683,494, according to a filed Form 4. The stock trades near $8.56 with a market capitalization of $292.23 million, carries a high P/E multiple, but also shows a free cash flow yield of 7%. Separately, Tredegar finalized a CEO su…
Gold Resource Corporation agreed to be purchased by Goldgroup Mining in an all-stock transaction that sends Gold Resource shareholders roughly 1.4476 Goldgroup shares per Gold Resource share (adjusted to 0.3619 after a planned four-for-one consolidation). Gold Resource shares climbed 17.4% in premarket trading; the deal values Gold Resource at $2.2…
Mizuho now projects global handset shipments in calendar 2026 will decline about 4% year on year, with downside risk exceeding 5%, driven by rising memory costs and supply shortages that are expected to hit production especially in the second half of the year. The bank trimmed price targets on Qualcomm and Skyworks Solutions and highlighted sharper…
Nvidia introduced the Earth-2 family of open models and tooling for AI-driven weather prediction at the American Meteorological Society's Annual Meeting on Monday. The suite is presented as the first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack and is designed to shorten the time and expense of running forecasts, from ingesting observations to…
Envirotech Vehicles Inc (NASDAQ:EVTV) saw its stock rise 42.8% in premarket trading after the company and partner AZIO AI Corporation announced delivery, installation, and power/network connection of a 40-foot immersion-cooled AI data center container. The project has moved into final engineering coordination ahead of CPU integration and system com…
Benchmark reaffirmed a Hold rating on Meta Platforms Inc. (META) ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings due Wednesday, January 28, citing uncertainty around future returns as the company increases capital spending and pursues new monetization pathways. The research firm called attention to potential deeper cuts at Reality Labs, the shift fr…
Insiders completed a series of notable transactions reported for Friday, January 24, 2026, including substantial purchases by QT Imaging’s chairman and a large stake increase by Mitsui Sumitomo in Berkley. Several executives at public companies also moved stock through planned sales and option exercises, with activity spanning medical device, insur…
Amazon is a phenomenal business. That’s exactly why the stock is dangerous when it’s priced like nothing can go wrong. At roughly $2.56T in market cap and about 33.8x earnings, investors are paying a premium multiple while the company’s cash flow picture looks awkward and the chart is losing momentum just under key highs. This trade idea leans into…
