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RBC Capital reiterated an Outperform rating and a $176.00 price target on Xylem (NYSE:XYL) following the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 results. The firm highlighted a modest operating beat, above-guidance organic sales growth and exceptionally strong free cash flow conversion, while noting mixed margin performance across segments and cautious guida…
DA Davidson increased its 12-month price target on Wabash National (NYSE: WNC) to $11.00 from $9.00 but left its rating at Neutral after the trailer manufacturer reported fourth-quarter 2025 results. The firm noted continued weakness in the freight market and uncertainty over whether fleet customers will resume purchases, even as a recent anti-dump…
DA Davidson increased its 12-month price target on Timken Co. to $108 from $86 while retaining a Neutral rating after the company's fourth-quarter 2025 report. The upgrade follows better-than-expected quarterly results and strong recent share performance, but the research firm signaled caution until management provides more detail on product initia…
DA Davidson reduced its price target on Alight Solutions (ALIT) to $5.00 from $6.00 while retaining a Buy rating, citing modestly disappointing 2025 results and an expectation of conservative 2026 guidance from new senior management. The stock trades near its 52-week low as Alight undergoes multiple leadership changes and a significant shareholder …
China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Beijing and New Delhi should regard one another as partners rather than rivals, following a strategic dialogue in New Delhi between Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu and India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. The ministry said both sides agreed to boost trust, broaden cooperation, and properly ha…
Codelco's El Teniente mine will see reduced copper output for roughly the next five years, the mine head said on Tuesday. Production is expected to be about 301,000 metric tons this year, and a section of the mine remains closed following a collapse that killed several workers. Company officials say study results will guide attempts to recover mine…
Uganda’s Information Minister has denounced a recent military operation at the home of opposition figure Bobi Wine, saying the politician committed no crime and may return to his residence. The incident, which reportedly left Wine’s wife hospitalized, has generated contradictory accounts from the army chief and prompted a pledge of investigation fr…
RTX is sitting on a deep backlog and accelerating service wins. Management’s digital transformation — expanded GTF MRO, analytics-driven spare-parts optimization, and longer service agreements at Collins and Pratt & Whitney — can act as a margin multiplier, justifying a re-rating from the mid-30s P/E range toward the mid-20s EV/EBITDA peers trade a…
Wingstop's stock slipped about 6% in early Tuesday trading after TD Cowen and Raymond James reduced their ratings, flagging a tougher 2026 outlook driven by weakening same-store sales and concentration in financially pressured customer segments. Both brokerages questioned whether new initiatives - including smart kitchens, a loyalty program and Wor…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared he will not abandon the mandate to change the country as criticism grows over his appointment of Peter Mandelson, described in reports as a former ambassador to the United States. Starmer repeated a series of pledges to the public and sought to frame the main political struggle as being against right win…
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said financial sponsors, including private equity firms, are likely to increase dealmaking as they face pressure to return capital to investors ahead of fresh fundraising. Solomon also predicted strategic corporate mergers and acquisitions will be meaningfully higher than the five-year average. Goldman benefited from…
Kroger shares have jumped on news of a new CEO appointment and recent operational wins. The fundamentals show a large, cash-generating retailer with reasonable EV/EBITDA but high leverage and a stretched valuation on earnings. This trade idea lays out a mid-term swing trade to capture a potential re-rating while managing downside with a strict stop…
A strategist at State Street cautions that the U.S. dollar could fall by as much as 10% this year if the Federal Reserve reduces interest rates more aggressively than current market expectations once a new chair assumes office. The forecast rests on the view that deeper cuts would lower the cost for foreign investors to hedge U.S. exposures, increa…
Nebius Group NV has agreed to acquire Tavily, a firm that builds search tools tailored for AI agents, in a $275 million transaction reported by Bloomberg. The move brings Tavily's founder and CEO Rotem Weiss and his team into the Netherlands-based cloud operator and aligns with Nebius's push to expand services for AI customers that operate autonomo…
Amazon pulled back into the low $200s and is trading near oversold technicals while valuation is reasonable for a company with AWS and advertising cash generation. I’m taking a long-biased, size-controlled position at current levels with a clear stop and a $260 target for the next several months. The trade rests on a mean-reversion bounce, continue…
RBC Capital has reiterated an Outperform rating on Applied Materials with a $385 price target, citing the company’s advantaged position across memory, packaging and advanced logic segments. Trading at $326.74 and up roughly 81.79% over the past year from a 52-week low of $123.74, the stock is flagged by InvestingPro data as trading above its Fair V…
RBC Capital lowered its 12-month price objective for Upwork Inc. (NASDAQ: UPWK) to $20 from $24 and left its Sector Perform rating intact, citing increased execution risk tied to the company’s turnaround. The firm balanced those concerns against several constructive indicators from Upwork’s fourth-quarter results and ongoing operational improvement…
Jefferies has reaffirmed a Hold rating and left its $74.00 price target on Masco following quarterly results that included a plumbing sales beat and mixed margin and revenue outcomes. The company's shares traded at $76.16, and InvestingPro metrics flag valuation and leverage signals. Management reiterated guidance for modest plumbing sales growth a…
RBC Capital lowered its price objective on Becton Dickinson (BDX) to $172 from $210 while keeping a Sector Perform rating after the company posted fiscal Q1 2026 results that beat expectations. Although revenue and earnings outperformed forecasts and the company completed its Lifesciences separation, analysts highlighted the need for a sustained re…
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. shares rose 2% after Paramount Skydance Corporation enhanced its $30 per share all-cash takeover proposal by adding a quarterly ticking fee, agreeing to cover a $2.8 billion termination fee to Netflix, and backstopping a bond exchange to remove a possible $1.5 billion financing cost for Warner Bros. Discovery. The revise…
Phio Pharmaceuticals reported strong efficacy and a favorable safety profile from its Phase 1b study of INTASYL candidate PH-762, driving a 57.8% gain in premarket trading. Final-cohort data showed an 85% pathological response rate, and company plans include FDA engagement and a required non-human primate study ahead of pivotal trials.
At Cortina d'Ampezzo on Feb 10, Austria's Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber captured Olympic gold in the women's team combined event, edging out Germany by 0.05 seconds. The United States' favored pair, Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin, finished fourth, missing a medal by 0.06 seconds after Shiffrin placed 15th in the slalom leg on the Olimpia …
Piper Sandler increased its price objective on ON Semiconductor to $75 from $65 and kept an Overweight rating, pointing to growth in the company's industrial business and AI data center exposure. The upgrade comes amid portfolio pruning that has trimmed revenue, while balance-sheet metrics remain healthy and several other firms have raised targets …
Piper Sandler trimmed its price target on ZoomInfo Technologies to $8 from $9 while retaining a Neutral rating, citing encouraging progress in the company's upmarket business but ongoing weakness in the downmarket segment. ZoomInfo reported strong gross margins and a Q4 beat on revenue and non-GAAP EPS, yet guidance and differing analyst views leav…
Piper Sandler lowered its price objective for Becton Dickinson (BDX) to $170 from $205 and kept a Neutral rating after the company reported fiscal first-quarter results that beat revenue and EPS expectations but showed flat organic growth and margin headwinds. Management reaffirmed guidance following a completed reverse Morris trust transaction, wh…
