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CLSA Ponders What Avnet Will Do With Cash From Tech Data Deal
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 11:02am | 319Read More...Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) announced that it will sell its Technology Solutions reselling business to Tech Data Corp (NASDAQ: TECD) for $2.6 billion. CLSA’s Louis Miscioscia maintained an Underperform rating on Avnet, with a price target of $43. Including the earlier Premier Farnell...
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Which Is More Valuable: Goldman Sachs Or China's Ant Financial? The Answer May Surprise You
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 8:18am | 379Read More...Alipapay's parent company, Ant Financial, was valued at around $60 billion back in April when it raised $4.5 billion. According to a Bloomberg report, Ant Financial's valuation has since risen to $75 billion, which would make the relatively unknown financial firm more valuable than one of the most...
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A Call For Management Pay 'Clawbacks' At Wells Fargo
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 3:48pm | 289Read More...CLSA analysts believe Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) should institute clawbacks for the head of Community Banking (Carrie Tolstedt), clawbacks and/or pay reduction for the CEO (John Stumpf). But, the brokerage wants the CEO to be retained given improvements in top line and returns during his...
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CLSA Analysts Bullish On Macau, But See 'Better Entry Points' Ahead
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 3:04pm | 371Read More...Macau gaming investors got some long-awaited good news at the end of August when the city logged its first positive year-over-year (Y/Y) monthly gaming revenue growth in more than two years. The surprise number triggered a handful of upgrades for Macau gaming stocks, but CLSA analyst Jon Oh urges...
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Why 'The Walking Dead' Bear Case For AMC Networks Is Dead Wrong
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 3:14pm | 439Read More...CLSA believes AMC Networks Inc (NASDAQ: AMCX) could deliver revenue growth and adjusted operating cash flow in the second half of the current year. Analysts Vasily Karasyov and Andrew Minora are not worried about the fading audience of "The Walking Dead." The brokerage sees Conviction estimates to...
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Analysts Respond To Oracle's Q1 Earnings: 4 At Buy, One Remains Underperform
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 2:53pm | 300Read More...A plethora of analysts reacted to Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL)'s earnings numbers for the first quarter. For the second quarter in a row, the company delivered weaker-than-expected earnings, thus dampening investor sentiments on the stock. As a result, the stock dropped more than 4 percent on...
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Oracle's Legacy Business A Drag On Q1 Results
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 2:04pm | 320Read More...Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) were trading lower by more than 4 percent on Friday after the company reported its first-quarter results Thursday. According to Ed Maguire of CLSA, Oracle demonstrated improvements in its cloud SaaS and PaaS businesses but were yet again offset by declines...
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Analysts Ponder Ford Motor's Future Following Investor Day
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 10:43am | 492Read More...Wall Street is mixed on Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) after its Investor Day suggested the automaker is investing in the future at the expense of near-term profitability. But, analysts appear more concerned on near-term performance not future endeavors, further indicating that the stock should be...
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Avi Silver Getting 'Increasingly Comfortable' With iPhone 7 Cycle, Raises Apple's Target From $120 To $130
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 8:47am | 305Read More...With the promotional activity of U.S. carriers becoming incrementally aggressive, CLSA’s Avi Silver expressed increasing comfort with the iPhone 7 cycle. Silver maintained a Buy rating on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), while raising the price target from $120 to $130. “As wireless...
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What A Management Change Could Mean For E*Trade Financial
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 4:31pm | 396Read More...CLSA said the recent CEO change at E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ: ETFC) suggests there is no sale of the company in the cards for the time being. The firm reiterated its Outperform rating on the shares. E*Trade unveiled several top-level executive changes Monday, including the ouster of Chief...
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Chinese Survey Has More Bad News Than Good For Estee Lauder
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 10:57am | 287Read More...CLSA’s Caroline Levy reported that the fourth cosmetics survey of Chinese women revealed that the purchase rate of Estee Lauder Companies Inc’s (NYSE: EL) brands remained flat or improved, while desirability and intent-to-switch rates had declined from the very high levels seen in...
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PayPal Soon To Face A Horde Of Competitors In P2P Payments
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 10:06am | 317Read More...Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) would likely continue to witness intensifying competition, and this is expected to exert pressure on margins, CLSA’s Tom McCrohan said in a report. He maintained an Underperform rating on the company, with a price target of $38. Competition Heating Up...
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CLSA Issues Multi-Notch Downgrade On Monsanto Amid 'Disappointing Terms' Of Bayer Deal
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 9:59am | 406Read More...CLSA termed Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON)'s deal with Bayer AG (ADR) (OTC: BAYRY) as disappointing. Therefore, analysts Mark Connelly and Brock Harris downgraded Monsanto shares from Buy to Underperform. They have a price objective on the stock of $110 with a 3 percent additional upside potential....
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Could The Internal Combustion Engine Lose Dominance To Electric Vehicles? Ford Thinks So
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 9:44am | 365Read More...Emmanuel Rosner, an analyst with CLSA, attended Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F)'s Investor Day presentation and presented his analysis in a research report on Thursday. According to Rosner, Ford "expectedly" reiterated its recently revised 2016 guidance and 2017 outlook, which was "well below...
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3 Key Takeaways From CLSA's China Trip
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 1:48pm | 458Read More...James Lee of CLSA finalized a fact finding channel check mission in China involving cross-border trade e-commerce activity. As a whole, the analyst noted that he came away incrementally positive on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) for its "opportunity to follow the successful product roadmap of WeChat."...













