Upgrades Downgrades, Stocks to Watch February 28

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Earnings & Economic Calender Events of Note - Week of 02-27-11

Earnings & Economic Calender Events of Note - Week of 02-27-11

Barrons Stock Mention

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Upgrades - Downgrades - Ticker Stocks to Watch

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Earnings & Economic Calender Week of February 21

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Earnings and Economic News Calendar for Week of February 14

Earnings and Economic News Calendar for Week of February 14

Stocks to Watch: Weekend Edition

Stocks to Watch: Weekend Edition

Upgrades Downgrades, Stocks to Watch February 11

Upgrades Downgrades, Stocks to Watch February 11

02-09-11 - Pre Market Update

 Upgrades Downgrades of note: Please Note - More to follow at 8:45

Illumina Inc. (ILMN).
     downgraded to Hold at Auriga U.S.A (Stock Price: 70.25)
     price target raised at Baird from $66 to $74 (Mixed reports)

Telefonos De Mexico SA de CV. (TMX).:
     Goldman Sachs Cuts to Sell from Neutral (Big downgrade on a thin adr)

Wells Fargo Inc. (WFC).
    Wells Fargo shares could be down 3%-5% on CFO
    retirement, says Citigroup 

Baidu.com (BIDU).
    upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at HSBC; tgt
    $158 (Stock Price: 119.84)


Take-Two Interactive. (TTWO).
     Raised To Buy From Neutral By BofA
    Merrill Lynch >TTWO (hearing Price target 20)

(VQ).: Downgrade - JAGNote by Stifel Nicolaus
      VQ: Downgrade - The firm lowered shares from Hold to SELL (BIG downgrade on a thin name that has been uptrending - 2 tier firm comments)

Stocks of note:

(SMCI). slashes quarter guidance and withdraws full year guidance

(PLAB). pre-announces to the upside

(JOE). exploring strategic alternatives

(HIBB). pre-announces to the downside

(PNCL). pre-announces to the downside

(RL). blow-out earnings

(ISRG). share buyback

(USNA). bad earnings

(SWIR). bad earnings

(DIS). strong earnings

(ANDE). blowout earnings

(ATML). strong earnings

(ASYS) very nice earnings

Pre Market Recap - Stocks to watch

02-08-11 Morning Update - Notable Upgrades/Downgrades - AM News

CNXT has two bidders for it now, private equity topped

SMSC dropped from 30 to 25 when they announced they were buying CNXT, so the chance for them to get out of the deal was being viewed as good last night and stock traded up a bit (SMSC)

MCD up on same store sales #'s

Cramer hyped HAIN and LULU last night

KND up on earnings this AM

Upgrades/Downgrades of significance – Tim’s Ticker Stocks

Newfield Exploration (NFX 73.04)

downgraded to Hold from Buy at Jefferies; tgt $70

MGM Resorts upgraded to Buy from Neutral at

BofA/Merrill. Price target 21(Intresting daily, nice 50 day trend – guarding recent daily highsthis week at 17)

Apogee Enterprises Raised To Buy From Hold By Canaccord

Genuity >APOG (Another intresting Daily. Research call from a second tier firm – guarding recent daily highs of 14.45)

Carlisle (CSL 42.47) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at

SunTrust; tgt (Had earnings last night. Breaking out on its daily to July 2008 highs)

Shaw Group (SHAW 39.08) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at

UBS (another daily breakout)

SanDisk Raised To Buy From Neutral By Sterne Agee >SNDK

Tradable Earnings Stocks of note:

BZH - Beazer Homes Swings to Q1 Loss That's Deeper Than Street View

Feb 8 at 07:09

Profile hits: NONE

      07:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, 02/08/2011 (MidnightTrader) -- Beazer

Homes USA (BZH) reports a Q1 loss of $0.66 per share compared to income of

$1.17 a year earlier and deeper than the Thomson Reuters mean analyst estimate

for a loss of $0.46.

      Revenue fell 48% to $110.3 million. The Street looked for $164.3

million. (Only down -.10c in the pre market on a pretty big miss)

AVP Avon Reports Lower Profit That Misses Street View - Shares

off 4% in First Pre-Market Matches

Feb 8 at 07:20

Profile hits: NONE

      07:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, 02/08/2011 (MidnightTrader) -- Avon

Products (AVP) reports Q4 adjusted EPS of $0.59 compared to $0.68 a year

earlier and below the consensus Street analyst estimate for $0.66.

      Sales improved slightly, to $3.14 billion compared to $3.10 billion.

      Price: 28.15, Change: -1.20, Percent Change: -4.1

(Daily is breaking down in the pre market with good liquidity)

VECO had earnings last night, warned, over 4 points off last light night's lows.  possible contra

FMC had bad earnings last night

Events of note:

Events08:45 Fed's Lacker to speak. 13:00 Fed's Lockhart to speak. 13:30 Fed's Fisher to speak.
(this could make for a choppy sideways lite volume market at times – guarding for comments)

OCLS up on FDA 510k clearance

Barrons Stock Mention's to Watch

Barron's(2/7) Medical Marvel
Feb 5 at 00:09


By Bill Alpert

      (From BARRON'S)
      For years, Questcor Pharmaceuticals lost money making Acthar, a drug for
desperately ill babies. Then in 2007, it found a success strategy. It raised
Acthar's price from $1,650 a vial to $23,000, and has been solidly
profitable ever since. Its stock (ticker: QCOR), quoted below 40 cents in
2007, hit a record $16.40 in January, on hopes for added sales of Acthar to
patients with multiple sclerosis or kidney disease.
      But the one-drug company, whose stock-market value has soared to nearly
$1 billion, will see its profits vanish this year on prescriptions covered by
Medicaid managed-care programs. The villain: a provision of the big federal
health-care overhaul that gives the Medicaid plans a 100% rebate on Acthar's
sales price. Questcor has set aside reserves for those liabilities, but not
enough, says Mark Roberts, an analyst who's spotted many an overpriced stock at
his Off Wall Street Consulting Group research boutique in Cambridge, Mass. "They
are way under-reserved," he contends.


Barron's(2/7) Dupont: A Feast For Investors
Feb 5 at 00:09

By Erin Arvedlund

      (From BARRON'S)
      Dupont, the chemicals giant, has a knack for changing with the times. It
produced gunpowder for the Civil War, paint for early automobiles and Teflon and
Corian for modern kitchens. Now comes food for a hungry world.
      Last month, Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont (ticker: DD) bid $6.3 billion
for Denmark's Danisco (DCO.Denmark), one of the largest producers of food
ingredients. Assuming Danisco shareholders approve the deal, which seems likely,
DuPont soon will derivemore than a third of its approximately $30 billion in
annual revenue from seeds, agricultural products and nutritional additives.
Think of it as a 21st-century protein play: DuPont could energize its profits,
and its shares, for years to come.
      The push into food-related businesses is the signature move of CEO Ellen
Kullman, who took the reins in 2009. DuPont is already a force in genetically
modified seeds, and the acquisition of Danisco will push it further along the
food chain. Danisco makes probiotics for yogurt, and locust bean gum for ice
cream, cream cheese and infant formula. Its products do everything from keeping
bread fresh to helping people lose weight.


Barron's(2/7) Seeking Stability In The Sands
Feb 5 at 00:08


By Andrew Bary

      (From BARRON'S)
      The turmoil in Egypt highlight the Mideast's volatility and the allure of
Canada's oil sands, the vast crude reserves in Alberta, second in size only to
Saudi Arabia's.
      The oil-sands operators now look especially attractive, given high
petroleum prices -- $90 barrel in the U.S. and $100 in Europe. Commodity
bulls may want some exposure because the oil sands are in a politically safe
nation and offer reserve lives of 50 to 100 years.
      There are many investment plays, ranging from notables Suncor (ticker: SU)
and Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ) to lesser-knownCanadian Oil Sands (COSWF),
Cenovus (CVE), and Imperial Oil (IMO). And there are more speculative
development plays traded mainly in Canada, including Athabasca Oil Sands (
ATH.Canada) and MEG Energy (MEG.Canada).
      These stocks trade at higher multiples of earnings and cash flow than
international oils and American exploration outfits, such as Apache (APA), but
they're probably worth that premium, thanks to their hefty reserves.
Additionally, many oil-sands producers aim to significantly raise their output
by 2020 -- the entire region now produces more than one million barrels per day.
That's a big plus at a time when the energy majors are struggling to boost
production.


Barron's(2/7) A Return Visit To Earlier Stories: Good News
From The Gorilla
Feb 5 at 00:06


By Jack Willoughby

      (From BARRON'S)
      The 500-pound gorilla is making his presence felt at Corning.
      Shares of the upstate New York company (ticker: GLW), whose products
include fiberoptic cable and glass for liquid-crystal displays used in computer
and smartphone touch-screens, have gained 21% since the start of the year. The
advance, most of which has come in the past two weeks, has pushed the stock
above 23.
      The catalyst: a strong earnings report last month, aided by a robust
outlook for scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass, a product well-suited for iPhones,
iPads and their proliferating rivals.
      And, as Barron's noted late in 2010 ("Corning's Winning App for the iPad,"
Dec. 13), the company has several promising technologies, including photovoltaic
glass, that are making it far more diversified than it was when it bet too
heavily on the fiberoptic-cable market before the Internet-buildout slowdown.

Highlighted stocks and events - Coming week of Monday, February 07, 2011 - Friday, February 11, 2011

Monday, February 07, 2011

Economic

08:30 Canada Dec Building Permits

11:30 US Treasury's 3- and 6-month bill auction

15:00 US Dec Consumer CreditEventsCredit Suisse Group Energy Summit. UBS Global Healthcare Services Conference. SYA Investor Day. New York Society of Security Analysts Insurance Conference. 

Trades Ex-dividend: FO $0.19, MDC $0.25, NMM $0.43, RGA $0.12, SBUX $0.13, XLNX $0.16.

Earnings

Before the Open: AMRI, BWP, CSL, CNA, CTSH, HAS, HUM, IPSU, L, LO, MTRX, MCY, SYY, TDG. 

After the Close: ADVS, AHL, BMI, BDX, BMR, BLKB, BRE, BRO, CUZ, DST, FMC, IT, GLUU, HMN, IPHS, KEYW, LNCR, LMNX, OMI, PKY, PRE, PXD, PFG, SNCR, TWTC, UDR, VECO.

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Economic

08:15 Canada Jan Housing Starts 

11:30 US Treasury's 1-month and 1-year bill auction

13:00 US Treasury's 3-year note auction

16:30 API Crude Oil/Gasoline/Distillate Inventories

Events

08:45 Fed's Lacker to speak. 

13:00 Fed's Lockhart to speak.

13:30 Fed's Fisher to speak. 

07:45 ICSC/UBSW Chain Store Sales.

08:55 Redbook Retail Sales. ABC Consumer Confidence. Trades Ex-dividend: AEP $0.46, CHKM $0.338, XOM $0.44, HCP $0.48, IBM $0.65, PH $0.32, TJX $0.15

Earnings

Before the Open: ACM, AGCO, ALLT, AHII, MT, ATRO, AVP, BZH, BLC, BR, CNC, CHD, CVH, ELNK, ETR, FIS, FLO, GET, GWR, HGG, LIOX, MAC, MLM, MNI, NYX, PTRY, PIKE, PCH, SLE, SVVS, SRX, STE, TIN, TEVA, VSH, WMG.

During Trading Hours: AXL. 

After the Close: AGNC, ASYS, ANDE, ATML, ATO, AXS, BWLD, CBL, CERN, CRL, CMP, CSGS, DCT, PROJ, DEI, DSCM, ETM, XIDE, BGC, GHDX, GIL, GSM, GCOM, HNI, ILMN, KNXA, KFRC, LTRE, MFE, MOTR, NTGR, OPEN, PBI, PTP, PPS, PPDI, PRI, RAH, RNR, RENT, RRTS, RRR, SWIR, TTWO, TMH, TXCC, ULTI, USNA, VSAT, DIS, WCN, WWWW, XL.

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Economic

10:30 DoE Crude Oil/Gasoline/Distillate Inventories

13:00 US Treasury's 10-year note auction

Events

10:00 Fed Chairman Bernanke to testify before the House of Representatives.

18:45 Fed's Lockhart. 

13:00 FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting. Stifel Nicolaus Technology, Communications & Internet Conference.
AXP Analyst Day. 

07:00 MBA Mortgage Applications.
Trades Ex-dividend: AMP $0.18, BP $0.42, COST $0.205, DO $0.125, DUK $0.245, EMR $0.345, GSK $0.615, SJM $0.44, SE $0.26, BA $0.42, V $0.15.

Earnings
Before the Open: ABD, AHCI, ANR, ASCA, BECN, BAH, CAE, KO, CSC, XRAY, DTE, ENER, IR, ICE, LRN, LNCE, MAG, NOC, PTI, RL, PBH, SIAL, SBGI, SON, SSYS, JNY, GTS, WYN. 

After the Close: ATVI, AAP, AKAM, ALL, AMKR, ARRS, CSCO, CLB, EXBD, CXW, DIOD, EDMC, ENH, ENS, EPIC, EFX, EQIX, RE, FLIR, GSIC, HGR, HIW, HIMX, IRBT, KIM, LOOP, MDTH, MET, NUAN, OSUR, PACR, PAA, PRO, PL, PRU, RGC, SB, SCI, SWI, SPSC, SFSF, TAL, TLEO, TEX, TMRK, TMK, TQNT, TBI, UFPI, WFMI, WSH.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Economic

08:30 US Initial Jobless Claims, Continuing Claims, Canada Dec New Housing Price Index

10:00 US Dec Wholesale Inventories

10:30 DoE Natural Gas Inventories

11:00 US Treasury's 30-year TIPS announcement13:00 US Treasury's 30-year bond auction

14:00 US Jan Monthly Budget Statement

Events

12:45 Fed's Lockhart to speak. Official launch of Verizon iPhone. 

08:00 FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Menthol Subcommittee Meeting. Cowen Aerospace/Defense Conference. Trades Ex-dividend: ACC $0.338, AWR $0.26, CF $0.10, PLD $0.113, COL $0.24, TE $0.205, UPS $0.52, GWW $0.54, WEC $0.52.

Earnings 

Before the Open: ALXN, LNT, AUXL, BCRX, BWA, BG, CBOE, ECA, EZCH, FORR, GT, GPI, HERO, INCY, IPCC, IRC, IFF, LH, LF, LFUS, LPX, LUFK, CLI, MTOX, TAP, MNTA, OZM, PMTI, PEP, PM, RVSN, ROLL, O, SNI, SHP, SHPGY, SPR, S, TKLC, TDC, TGH, TRI, THS, VNDA, VTNC, GRA, WWE, WXS. 

After the Close: AB, ATHR, BJRI, NILE, CPKI, CATM, CEPH, CAKE, CMG, CGNX, CPA, DVA, ELON, ENV, EXPE, FALC, GDI, GRM, HOKU, IM, JOEZ, KONA, KFT, LPSN, MNKD, MRH, MOVE, NANO, NRP, NBIX, PNRA, PNSN, RAX, RNWK, RSG, STMP, TCO, TTMI, USTR, WMGI

Friday, February 11, 2011

Economic

08:30 US Dec Trade Balance

09:55 US Feb prelim Univ of Michigan confidence

Events

Trades Ex-dividend: AFL $0.30, CLF $0.14, DD $0.41, LLY $0.49, ENB $0.49, EXC $0.525, FAST $0.50, IP $0.188, MMS $0.15, MUR $0.275, KR $0.105

Earnings-

before the Open: BPO, BPL, CCE, DISCA, GLT, SCG, TOT, WBC.