We continue to track the short interest changes in the primary 3D printer and services companies. The following information is based on data reported for the period ended January 15, 2014. Short interest ...

The equity research team at Jefferies has come out with a list of their stocks to buy that have been ambushed hard, not only the past two trading days, but since the beginning of the year.

Paired trades can be extremely lucrative with the smart use of options.

The so-called underwriter quiet period for AMC Entertainment Holdings has come to an end, so now the analysts in the underwriting syndicate firms can issue coverage on the company. Shares were down in ...

In a new research report, Deutsche Bank analysts initiate coverage on some of the top software stocks and also upgrade other top names from Hold to Buy.

Apple got a mid-day pop on Wednesday due to nothing more than comments from activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn. His position is now believed to top $3 billion, and he called Apple a "no ...

The magnitude of the debacle at Best Buy during December was not something Wall Street expected. Most firms had fallen in love with the story, and Best Buy was seen as the proverbial Phoenix rising from ...

As we have looked through research from the firms that we cover on Wall Street, we find that almost everybody expects a pullback. None that we have seen could be as large as the one predicted by Piper ...

With a number of high-profile IPOs, franchises are having a moment in the Wall Street spotlight.

After a strong 2013 where the S&P 500 was up almost 30%, you would think that most stocks would be close to being fully priced. That's not what Thomas Lee, the chief equity strategist at J.P. Morgan thinks....

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Thursday, January 16.

Barron’s suggested this week that the recovery in the housing market could spell trouble for restaurant stocks going forward. But there seem to be two theories on what could happen. Investors seem to feel ...

Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO) on May 18, 2012. This was seen as one of the biggest IPOs in technology and Internet history.

Jabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE: JBL) is in the unloved field of contract manufacturing, also known as electronic manufacturing services. This sector is not exactly exciting to investors, or at least that was ...

InPlay from Briefing.com

To many investors, online retailing behemoth Amazon (AMZN) is a riddle contained in a mystery, wrapped inside an enigma (with apologies to Mr. Churchill). That’s not the highest Amazon’s multiple has been; You can grumble that Jeff Bezos’s decision to starve Amazon’s bottom line in order to finance its ongoing expansion mean that it’s not shareholder friendly, but even before the publicity around those planned delivery drones, enough investors were willing to buy into the company’s future promise to drive its price up 55 percent in 2013. But, as a team of analysts from Wedbush wrote in a note recently published in Barron's, “Amazon is unlikely to provide investors with a strategy road map.” Moreover, they noted, “it could be a long time before (earnings per share) grows sufficiently to justify its share price.”

The Federal Reserve had been trying for years to persuade investors to take on more risk, and a renewed affection for growth was one of the dominant market characteristics of the year. That may have been because growth stock pricing reached appealing levels as the economy appeared poised to speed up, or, more likely, because absolute growth became more alluring than the razor-thin yields on bonds and the prices for dividend stocks. Either way, growth stocks got hot. Even for a growth stock, that’s rich – but it didn’t stop the company’s stock from rallying 300 percent.

There seems to be a growing consensus on Wall Street that more and more names that once dominated the growth arena, but have been mired in sideways price moves for years, are indeed value names now.

On Tuesday, Netflix fell more than 5% because Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock. In a note to investors, Morgan Stanley analysts cited a more competitive market for online video. They listed Hulu, HBO ...

January 7, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday led by healthcare and tech stocks. The S&P 500 closed with a gain for the first time this year. The DJIA closed up 0.64%, the S&P 500 closed up 0.61%, ...