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H.C. Wainwright has maintained a Buy rating and a $185.00 price target on Belite Bio (NASDAQ: BLTE) following the company’s announcement that the Phase 2/3 portion of the DRAGON II trial has completed enrollment of 60 adolescent subjects. The stock trades near its 52-week high after a strong year. Several other brokerages have initiated or reiterat…
Wedbush has reaffirmed an Outperform rating and a $350 price target on Apple ahead of the company’s fiscal first-quarter 2026 earnings report, arguing that recent holiday results and strategic initiatives could outpace current market expectations. The stock trades above InvestingPro’s Fair Value, and several other brokerages have issued divergent p…
H.C. Wainwright has reaffirmed a Buy rating and a $24.00 price target on Inventiva SA (NASDAQ: IVA) following a poster presentation at the Keystone Obesity Conference. The investment firm highlighted a unimolecular quintuple agonist described by researchers from Helmholtz Munich as supportive of Inventiva’s therapeutic approach combining GLP-1R and…
GLDD is trading near $15.21 with bullish momentum, improving earnings power, and strong backlog visibility. With the stock sitting above key moving averages and just below its 52-week high, this looks like a clean mid-term breakout setup where fundamentals and technicals actually agree. The trade: look for a pullback entry near support, target a re…
Canaccord Genuity has reiterated a Buy rating on Stride Inc. (LRN) and kept a $125.00 price target following the company’s fiscal second-quarter results. The target implies roughly 73% upside versus the current share price of $72.43. Stride delivered revenue and enrollment broadly in line with expectations while reporting profitability above consen…
UBS downgraded Nucor from Buy to Neutral while increasing its price target to $183 from $168. The decision reflects concerns that lower-cost steel imports from Southeast Asia and Brazil became economically viable in mid-October and that additional supply could hit U.S. markets starting in February. The move comes after Nucor outperformed peers sinc…
Barclays has begun coverage of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) with an Overweight rating and a $606 price target, highlighting the companys renal franchise, expected trial readouts in 2026, and potential revenue acceleration for the new acute pain therapy Journavx. Multiple other brokerages have recently raised ratings and price targets for …
UBS raised its target on Seagate Technology to $385 from $335 while retaining a Neutral rating, citing strong execution, expanding gross margins and progress on HAMR technology. The firm also increased EPS forecasts for fiscal 2026-2028 but warned that the stock may be pricing in a prolonged uptrend. Seagate recently posted better-than-expected fis…
Barclays initiated coverage of PTC Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTCT) with an Overweight rating and a $119 price target, citing the commercial opportunity for the company’s phenylketonuria therapy Sephience and potential upside from Huntington’s disease programs. The target implies meaningful upside from the stock's recent trading level, and Barclays note…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that a "massive Armada" led by the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is en route to Iran. He described the force as moving "quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose," warned of a rapid and potentially violent response if necessary, and urged Iran to "Come to the Tabl…
Morgan Stanley upgraded Hensoldt AG to an "equal-weight" rating from "underweight" and nudged its price target up to €82 from €78 following a roughly 23% decline from the stock's October high. The bank said consensus estimates have been reset after the company's capital markets day and adjusted its forecasts to reflect new guidance, changing free c…
Public Policy Holding Company priced its initial public offering at $12.25 per share, generating roughly $50.8 million in gross proceeds before expenses. The transaction includes both new shares and secondary shares sold by existing stockholders, and underwriters hold a 30-day option to purchase additional shares. Trading began on the Nasdaq Global…
PaleBlueDot AI secured $150 million in a Series B round led by B Capital, pushing its valuation above $1 billion. The Palo Alto-based neocloud company will deploy the funding to acquire Nvidia GPUs and related infrastructure, hire personnel to grow partnerships, and expand both its marketplace for spare GPU capacity and dedicated enterprise GPU clu…
BTIG reduced its price target for Roblox Corp. to $141 from $174 while maintaining a Buy rating ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter results due on February 5. The firm modestly raised bookings estimates for late-2025 and 2026, pointing to a split between weaker concurrent-user metrics and relatively stronger payer and monetization signals. Other …
Barclays initiated coverage of BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO) with an Overweight rating and an $80.00 price target, noting the company’s diversified late-stage portfolio and potential to scale. The move follows strong Attruby sales and preliminary revenue figures for 2025 and coincides with BridgeBio’s $550 million convertible note offering due 2033.
BofA Securities cut Plains All American (PAA) from Neutral to Underperform and kept a $19.00 price target, pointing to constrained Permian Basin production growth, a flat EBITDA forecast through the 2030s, and reduced upside from a lower FERC PPI adder. The bank also downgraded Plains GP Holdings on similar grounds.
Barclays has opened coverage on Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) with an Equalweight rating and a $153 price objective. The bank cites the company’s rapid site commissioning, falling costs and average selling prices, and recent contract validations as demand drivers for its solid-oxide fuel cell technology, while warning that current market valuation alread…
BofA Securities upgraded Microchip Technology from Neutral to Buy and increased its price target to $95 from $78, citing improving recovery momentum and clearer visibility into demand. The firm boosted its CY26 and CY27 EPS estimates, highlighted the company’s significant industrial and aerospace exposure, and pointed to data-center-facing products…
BofA Securities has initiated coverage of Celestica (NYSE: CLS) with a Buy rating and a $400 price target, highlighting the company’s position in white-box switching and custom ASIC accelerated servers. The firm expects fiscal 2027 to be a standout year as new programs ramp, and bases its valuation on a 32x multiple of calendar 2027 estimated EPS o…
BofA Securities downgraded Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (PAGP) from Neutral to Underperform while keeping a $19.00 price target, pointing to concerns about the long-term trajectory of Permian Basin oil production and regulatory changes that reduce inflation-linked upside. The note also outlines infrastructure and capital-spend scenarios for Plains All …
BofA Securities upgraded Texas Instruments from Underperform to Neutral and raised its price target to $235 from $185 after the company reported in-line fourth-quarter results and provided a first-quarter revenue outlook that exceeded expectations. The bank cited improving backlog and order trends, robust data center demand, and potential for susta…
Morgan Stanley increased its price target on RTX Corp. to $235 from $215 and kept an Overweight rating, pointing to the company’s positioning for continued revenue expansion, margin improvement and potential re-rating by the market. The upgrade follows a robust fourth-quarter performance and a string of price-target adjustments by other brokers, al…
Baird raised its price objective for Texas Instruments to $225 from $195 while maintaining an Outperform rating, pointing to an above-seasonal, unit-driven first-quarter outlook and the company’s exposure to direct customers as reasons it could benefit from an early cycle recovery. Other firms have issued differing updates following Texas Instrumen…
Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ:PDYN) saw its shares climb 13% after the Air Force Research Laboratory granted the company a contract named HANGTIME. The program will deploy Palladyne’s SwarmOS™ platform to connect autonomous systems across multiple domains, integrating satellites for the first time and aiming to enable faster, coordinated decision-maki…
Israel’s parliament moves to cast an initial vote on the 2026 state budget draft amid deepening rifts within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. With the law requiring full approval by the end of March or a snap election being triggered, disputes over military conscription for ultra-Orthodox seminary students and sharp differences over w…
