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Zynga Files Shelf Registration, for Selling Stakeholders

US Market News - Wed, 02/12/2014 - 10:35

Zynga has filed a shelf registration statement that will allow the company to sell new shares into the market. This proposed secondary offering will be for up to 28,178,201 shares, which are worth a cumulative ...

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amazon, Control4, Ocwen, Sprint, Veeco, More

US Market News - Wed, 02/12/2014 - 09:50

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, February 12, 2014. They include Amazon, Control4, Ocwen Financial, Sprint and Veeco Instruments....

Open Compute Technology Could Change Everything: Top Stocks to Buy

US Market News - Wed, 02/12/2014 - 09:35

Open Compute, or OCP for short, is an organization that was founded by Facebook in 2011. According to the organization’s website, Open Compute’s goal is to “build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures ...

UPDATE: MLV & Co Downgrades Royal Gold as Stock is Fairly Valued at Current Levels

US Market News - Wed, 02/12/2014 - 08:59

In a report published Wednesday, MLV & Co analyst Michael D. Peterson downgraded the rating on Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD ) from Buy to Hold, and removed the $65.00 price target. In the report, MLV & Co ...

Imerys to Acquire AMCOL for $41.00/Share in Cash

US Market News - Wed, 02/12/2014 - 06:52

AMCOL International (NYSE: ACO ) today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement with Imerys S.A. (OTC: IMYSF ) pursuant to which AMCOL shareholders will receive USD $41 per share in cash for ...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Shows Value of Correlation Trading

US Market News - Tue, 02/11/2014 - 17:37

Another article in Benzinga recently covered why Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR ) has been soaring. Over the last week of market action, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is up more than 40 ...

3 Reasons To Trust Dividends More Than Analysts

US Market News - Tue, 02/11/2014 - 17:23

There was not a single analyst who called The Great Recession. Even closer at home, when Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) was trading at over $700 a share in October 2012, some analysts were calling for it to go ...

3 Reasons To Embrace The Double-Digit Drop In Exxon Mobil

US Market News - Tue, 02/11/2014 - 14:48

As detailed in another article on Benzinga , long-term investors should applaud the falling price of oil. The main exchange traded fund for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO ), is down in recent market ...

CenturyLink Scores Highly Unusual Analyst Upgrade — Just Before Earnings

US Market News - Tue, 02/11/2014 - 12:20

CenturyLink is a highly shorted stock, in part because of its major dividend yield, one of the highest in its peer group. So what happens when you see an analyst upgrade a stock like this? The timing of ...

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcatel-Lucent, CenturyLink, Cisco, FireEye, Infoblox, More

US Market News - Tue, 02/11/2014 - 09:20

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. They include Alcatel-Lucent, CenturyLink, Cisco Systems , FireEye and ...

Shh: GoPro Submits Confidential Filing for IPO

US Market News - Sun, 02/09/2014 - 12:51

GoPro Inc., maker of a hands-free, high-definition video camera that can be attached to a variety of objects, animals, or people in motion, filed a confidential registration for an initial public offering ...

Twitter and LinkedIn Social Media Reality Checks

US Market News - Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:57

Last week saw fourth-quarter earnings results from two of the premier players in the social media sector: Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD). Neither company’s results proved encouraging ...

How Cowen Analysts Nailed Twitter and Glu Mobile

US Market News - Sat, 02/08/2014 - 10:20

Sometimes analysts have to take heat for making bad calls. It is not uncommon for an analyst to make a pre-earnings call that simply misses the mark. Other times they make calls that would have made major ...

Fairway Slices and Hooks Its Future for Investors

US Market News - Sat, 02/08/2014 - 10:01

Fairway Group Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: FWM) managed to crush its prospects, and now the grocery store and food retailer is going to have to somehow convince shareholders that it is a value stock of sorts. ...

AT&T or Verizon: Does Valuation Favor One or the Other?

US Market News - Fri, 02/07/2014 - 11:15

This year promises to be at least a very interesting one in the mobile wireless business. It is probably safe to say that by the end of this year, the mobile carrier business in the United States will ...

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AOL, Echelon, Fairway Group, LinkedIn, Lululemon, More

US Market News - Fri, 02/07/2014 - 09:30

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on is Friday, February 7, 2014. They include AOL, Echelon, Fairway, LinkedIn and Lululemon.

Can Harley-Davidson Truly Afford Its Dividend Hike and Buyback?

US Market News - Thu, 02/06/2014 - 14:37

Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) is one of those truly iconic American brands. It was iconic enough that Warren Buffett even did a preferred financing deal with the company during the recession. The company ...

What Analysts Predict for Twitter Now

US Market News - Thu, 02/06/2014 - 13:00

24/7 Wall St. is offering a new analyst call montage now that Twitter's earnings have been seen by so many analysts. The long and short of the matter is that analysts who were bullish are becoming less ...

The Return of the NFL Player IPOs — Really

US Market News - Wed, 02/05/2014 - 17:05

The athlete IPO talk is back. In fact, they may be back in business. Two issues are driving the chatter here, and it is not that the Super Bowl was a crowd killer. News was out this week that the Vernon ...

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Arch Coal, ADM, Citigroup, Myriad, Sirius and More

US Market News - Wed, 02/05/2014 - 09:55

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. They include Arch Coal, ADM, Citigroup, Myriad Genetics and Sirius.

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