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Goldman Sachs has maintained a Sell rating on Halozyme Therapeutics with a $58 price target, a mark well below the current share price. The firm’s view reflects concerns about royalty revenue durability beyond 2029, even as Halozyme reported robust near-term growth, raised multi-year revenue guidance and disclosed strategic acquisitions and partner…
Evercore ISI raised its price objective on IBM to $345 from $330 and reaffirmed an Outperform rating after the company's December quarter report. IBM topped revenue and EPS estimates, showed broad-based segment growth, and provided 2026 guidance that Evercore called "fairly conservative." The firm highlighted multiple catalysts that could push resu…
Goldman Sachs reduced its 12-month price target for Las Vegas Sands to $73 from $80 while retaining a Buy rating, citing divergent performance across the operator's regional businesses. Singapore outperformed expectations, but Macau fell short of estimates and saw margin pressure. The company also reported a quarterly earnings and revenue beat for …
Jefferies has maintained a Buy rating on ServiceNow (NOW) with a $175 price target, pointing to robust subscription revenue and high gross margins. The stock, trading near its 52-week low, reported Q4 2025 results that beat consensus on both revenue and EPS. RBC Capital trimmed its price target but kept an Outperform rating amid mixed investor sent…
Indian equity indices finished modestly higher on Thursday, led by gains in Metals, Power and Oil & Gas names. The Nifty 50 rose 0.30% at the close, with the BSE Sensex up 0.27%. Tata Steel and Axis Bank registered fresh all-time highs on both exchanges, while several large-cap discretionary and financial names ended lower. Market breadth favored d…
VEON offers an asymmetric risk-reward: Kyivstar’s operational wins (Starlink Direct-to-Cell scale, solar acquisition) and other regional growth initiatives justify a long trade at current levels given a P/E near 6 and a $3.73B market cap. Actionable plan included.
Shares of British online grocery and technology firm Ocado fell about 10% in London after Sobeys, its Canadian partner, announced it will shut a robotic customer fulfilment centre in Calgary, attributing the decision to weaker-than-expected expansion of Alberta’s online grocery market. Ocado said its Greater Toronto and Montreal sites will stay ope…
The Indian rupee weakened to a fresh record low against the U.S. dollar as demand for dollars linked to maturing non-deliverable forward positions and corporate hedging pushed the pair higher. The currency closed at 91.9550 per dollar after trading down 0.2%, with an intraday low of 91.9850. The Reserve Bank of India is reported to have stepped in …
Microsoft reported quarterly results that topped estimates for revenue, non-GAAP earnings per share, and operating margins, and logged strong year-over-year revenue growth on a trailing 12-month basis. Despite these outcomes and signals of improving margin discipline amid elevated AI infrastructure costs, the stock fell about 6% in after-hours trad…
RBC Capital has increased its price objective on Lam Research to $290 from $260 and reaffirmed an Outperform rating after the company reported a strong December 2025 quarter. The firm raised earnings estimates, citing healthy wafer fabrication equipment demand, market-share gains and management guidance calling for roughly 23% WFE growth in 2026. M…
RBC Capital reiterated an Outperform rating on Fair Isaac (FICO) with a $2,400 price target, implying roughly 57% upside from the current share price of $1,525.67. The firm pointed to a beat in Scores, high gross margins, accelerating Platform ARR and robust ACV growth, while describing VantageScore competition as manageable and flagging the direct…
RBC Capital increased its price target for Nurix Therapeutics to $30 from $28 and retained an Outperform rating, pointing to chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) as a key opportunity for the company's bexicalmab-degrader. The firm described recent company updates as largely unsurprising, highlighted broader potential in immunology and partnered progr…
RBC Capital raised its price target on Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) to $17.00 from $13.00 while keeping an Outperform rating, citing an encouraging initial RevPAR outlook and early evidence that management's pricing strategy is gaining traction. The move precedes the company’s Investor Day and follows better-than-expected 2026 guidance. Rece…
RBC Capital reiterated an Outperform rating on Meta Platforms with a $810 price target following the company’s fourth-quarter results and an above-consensus first-quarter outlook. The firm cites revenue strength and AI-driven product initiatives as supports for the investment plan, while noting potential headwinds including likely post-Q1 revenue s…
RBC Capital lowered its price target on ServiceNow to $185 from $195 while keeping an Outperform rating. The revised target remains well above the stock’s current trading level near $129.62 and close to its 52-week low. RBC cited peer multiple compression for the reduction but continues to highlight ServiceNow’s growth prospects tied to enterprise …
Willdan Group (WLDN) sits squarely in the grid-modernization theme: technical consulting for utilities plus civil engineering services. Strong free cash flow, low leverage, and bullish technicals argue for a tactical long. Valuation is rich, so position sizing and a tight stop are essential.
The Kremlin says it is still awaiting a response from Washington to President Vladimir Putin's proposal to informally extend for one year the operative provisions of the New START treaty. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the pact's scheduled expiration on February 5 could produce a serious gap in the legal architecture that regulates nuc…
Analysts at Capital Economics, including James Reilly, argue that the recent outperformance of foreign markets relative to U.S. equities is unlikely to persist. Despite near-term relative weakness tied to currency moves, U.S. company valuations and projected earnings growth remain elevated versus most other countries in the MSCI All-Country World I…
Baird has held its Outperform rating and $39 price objective for Regenxbio Inc. (NASDAQ: RGNX) despite an FDA-imposed clinical hold on multiple mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) gene therapy programs. The regulatory pause follows the detection of an asymptomatic neoplasm in a Phase 1/2 trial participant, and has led to delays including a postponed PDUFA …
PicPay, the Brazilian digital bank controlled by the Batista family, launched its IPO on Nasdaq after raising $434 million by selling 22.86 million shares at $19 each. The listing - the first by a Brazilian company in more than four years - valued PicPay at about $2.6 billion and may expand to roughly $500 million if underwriters exercise a 30-day …
Barclays has maintained an Equalweight rating and a $360 price target for Tesla after the company said it will discontinue the Model S and Model X by next quarter. The bank characterizes the move as a symbolic shift toward autonomy and robotics, and highlights a planned jump in capital expenditure to more than $20 billion in 2026. Despite these str…
UBS upgraded Warrior Met Coal (HCC) from Neutral to Buy and lifted its price target to $108 from $100, citing an inflection driven by the Blue Creek project ramp, shorter-term market tightness in metallurgical coal and stronger operational performance. The firm expects double-digit returns in the back half of the year and flagged additional upside …
Shares of Turkey's largest banks jumped after Fitch Ratings shifted the outlooks for Akbank, Garanti Bankasi, Is Bankasi and Yapi Kredi from stable to positive. The banking index outpaced the broader BIST 100 as traders responded to the change in sentiment, though the long-term issuer ratings were left at 'BB-'.
MSCI, the index compiler behind the widely used Emerging Markets Index, warned clients about opaque shareholding structures and trading behaviour in Indonesia that clouded free float and investor categorisation. The announcement triggered a steep sell-off in Jakarta, with the Jakarta Composite Index tumbling as much as 16.7% over two days before re…
Canal+ shares rose to a record high on Thursday, gaining about 14% after the company said it expects to deliver more than 400 million euros ($479 million) in annual cost savings by 2030. Management tied the efficiencies to the $3 billion purchase of MultiChoice completed last year and framed the move as part of a shift toward a global entertainment…
