Upgrades, downgrades, and outlook changes from major analysts.
Coverage of analyst actions including upgrades, downgrades, initiations, and price-target changes. This category tracks how institutional research influences market perception, momentum shifts, and short-term price behavior.
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JPMorgan has opened coverage of MSA Safety (NYSE: MSA) with a Neutral rating and a price target of $200, implying roughly 10% upside from current levels. The bank's conclusions follow a site visit to MSA's headquarters, where it observed global leadership in advanced safety products, innovation capabilities, and robust margins. JPMorgan flagged pot…
JPMorgan has initiated coverage of Limbach Holdings (NASDAQ: LMB) with a Neutral rating and a December 2026 price target of $100. The firm’s on-site due diligence highlighted Limbach’s execution strength across healthcare, industrial, data center, and institutional markets. The $100 target implies roughly 20% upside from current levels. The company…
Morgan Stanley downgraded Stellantis NV from Overweight to Equalweight while lifting its price target to EUR9.20 from EUR8.50. The bank pointed to a range of weaknesses - including underinvestment, a thin product pipeline, shrinking market share, weak margins, negative free cash flow and elevated leverage - that have left the automaker lagging peer…
Berenberg has begun coverage on Evotec AG (NASDAQ:EVO) assigning a Buy rating and a price objective of EUR10.00. The research house underscored Evotec’s broad contract research capabilities and positions in areas such as iPSC-driven discovery and continuous manufacturing, while also noting recent revenue softness. Separately, Evolution Global Acqui…
Baird upgraded Palantir Technologies Inc. from Neutral to Outperform and set a $200 price target after the company reported a tenth consecutive quarter of accelerating revenue growth and beat fourth-quarter expectations. The firm cited Palantir's U.S. commercial strength, first-quarter guidance that implies further acceleration, a potential free ca…
Goldman Sachs downgraded KE Holdings (NYSE: BEKE) from Buy to Neutral while nudging its price objective up to $19.00 from $18.60. The move follows a notable year-to-date rally in the company’s American and Hong Kong-listed shares amid signs of stabilization in China’s housing market, but the bank flagged elevated forward valuation and near-term ear…
JPMorgan moved SoFi Technologies (SOFI) from Neutral to Overweight and set a $31 price target, implying roughly 40% upside from the current $22.08 share price. The upgrade follows a 10% pullback in SoFi shares since the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings call on January 30 and rests on what JPMorgan describes as record Q4 results, stronger-than…
TD Cowen cut its rating on Sun Country Airlines Holdings (SNCY) from Buy to Hold and reduced its price target to $18.00 from $21.00. The firm said market prices appear to already reflect a high probability of approval for the proposed merger with Allegiant Travel Company, and adjusted near-term earnings and margin forecasts reflect government-shutd…
UBS downgraded Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST) from Buy to Neutral while increasing its price target to $21.00 from $17.00 following a definitive acquisition agreement with a Brookfield private real estate fund. The all-cash offer values Peakstone at about $1.2 billion in enterprise value and carries a meaningful premium to the company’s recent marke…
Palantir Technologies reported robust fourth-quarter results and issued a 2026 financial outlook that surpassed consensus estimates, prompting a 5% rise in the stock. The company provided targets for revenue, adjusted operating income and free cash flow for 2026 that were materially higher than analyst consensus, while posting record quarterly reve…
Freedom Capital Markets began coverage of Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) with a Buy rating and set a price target of $108. The $21.45 billion company has seen its share price climb more than 160% in the past year and reported 106% revenue growth over the last twelve months. The research note highlights Nebius’s vertically integrated GPU-as-a-service ap…
Clear Street has opened coverage of Caribou Biosciences Inc. (CRBU) with a Buy rating and a $13.00 price target, citing the company’s off-the-shelf allogeneic CAR-T candidates as potential commercial competitors. The research note underscores clinical progress in Caribou’s pipeline and points to the stock trading near cash levels as creating a valu…
Goldman Sachs has held a Neutral rating and a $22.00 price target on Olin (NYSE:OLN) as the chemical maker navigates a difficult first quarter marked by lower-than-expected EBITDA, elevated turnaround costs and soft product pricing. Management is pursuing structural savings under its Beyond250 plan and raising prices in ammunition to offset raw mat…
Aletheia Capital launched coverage of Teradyne (TER) with a Buy rating and a $400 price target, projecting earnings to triple between fiscal years 2025 and 2027. The firm cites accelerating demand for semiconductor test equipment driven by heterogeneous chiplet architectures and a roster of new device opportunities as primary growth levers.
Needham Capital raised its price objective for Napco Security Technologies (NASDAQ:NSSC) to $49 from $47 and kept a Buy rating after the company's fiscal second quarter beat revenue and earnings forecasts. Revenue grew 12.2% year-over-year and diluted EPS for the trailing twelve months stands at $1.23. Both hardware lines and recurring services con…
Evercore ISI has reaffirmed an Outperform rating and a $330.00 price target on Apple (AAPL), noting continued App Store revenue growth amid uneven category and regional results. Market data indicate the shares may be trading above fair value with a P/E of 33.88, while Apple’s broader Services business and recent quarterly results show meaningful up…
Deutsche Bank says the risk-reward profile for AppLovin (APP) has "meaningfully improved" after a selloff tied to Google’s Project Genie announcement. While Project Genie prompted market concern about potential disruption to game development, Deutsche Bank cautions it is "far too early" to judge the tool’s ultimate impact and sees scenarios where i…
Raymond James maintained its Market Perform rating on American Airlines (AAL) even after the carrier reported stronger-than-expected early-2026 revenue guidance and moved up its target for adjusted debt reduction. The firm raised its 2026 and 2027 earnings-per-share estimates while highlighting persistent risks tied to a heavier debt load and weake…
Mizuho has reaffirmed an Outperform rating and set a $172.00 price target for Robinhood Markets (HOOD), citing the company’s newly announced UK stocks & shares ISA — featuring zero platform fees, no commissions, and a 2% cash bonus on eligible contributions — as a significant catalyst for growth in its international business. The stock is trading w…
Freedom Capital Markets increased its 12-month price objective for Caterpillar to $700 from $530, citing the company's strong revenue showing in 2025, robust demand for datacenter power solutions and a record backlog. Despite the raised target, the firm left its Hold rating unchanged, signaling restrained upside from current prices. Several other a…
Walt Disney Co reported fiscal first-quarter 2026 results that beat several analyst expectations on revenue and adjusted earnings per share, but the stock moved lower as analysts called attention to the growing dominance of the Parks business within segment operating income. Streaming showed signs of stabilization amid a Disney+ and Hulu integratio…
Stifel lowered its 12-month price target on Eagle Materials (EXP) to $232 from $245 but kept a Hold rating following the company's fiscal third-quarter 2026 report. The quarter delivered revenue above expectations while adjusted EBITDA fell short due to weaker wallboard performance, prompting analyst downgrades to near-term earnings estimates even …
UBS has reaffirmed a Buy rating on McDonald’s and kept a $350.00 price target ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report set for February 11. The firm cited anticipated U.S. same-store sales strength and continued international momentum as foundations for a favorable 2026 outlook. Other brokerages offer mixed signals, with price-target c…
Truist Securities increased its price target on Caterpillar to $786 from $729 and kept a Buy rating after the company reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Caterpillar posted adjusted EPS of $5.16, and a record $51.2 billion backlog that grew 71% year-over-year. Several other brokerages also raised targets following the earnings a…
UBS has reaffirmed a Buy rating and a $180.00 price target on Yum! Brands (YUM) ahead of the company's fourth-quarter results scheduled for February 4. The bank expects continued brand-level growth led by Taco Bell and KFC, while noting that increased marketing at Pizza Hut may weigh on core operating income growth in the quarter. Investors will be…
