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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Analyst downgrades: LZ, BMRN and NVS	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Novartis AG ADS (NVS)MOST NOTEWORTHY: Lubrizol, BioMarin Pharmaceutical and Novartis were today's noteworthy downgrades: Jefferies downgraded shares of Lubrizol (NYSE:LZ) to Hold from Buy as they expect persistent raw material cost pressures to limit upside over the next few quarters. The firm lowered their target price to $60 from $65. Citigroup cut BioMarin (NASDAQ:BMRN) to Hold from Buy after their survey indicated a...	June 12, 2008
Keep an eye on Alcon (ACL)	Filed under: International markets, Newsletters, Stocks to Buy"You may not have your eye on Alcon Inc. (NYSE: ACL), but if you wear contact lenses, suffer from dry eyes, worry about glaucoma, or even if you have hay-fever, you may have bought ACL products," notes global expert Frida Ghitis. Here, the contributing advisor to Vivian Lewis' Global Investing, explains, "This Swiss eye drug giant has with its eyes on both the bottom line and the pipeline. "As the world's largest eye care company, ...	June 03, 2008
Analyst downgrades: AAPL, NVS, WFC, WM and IFX	Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Apple Inc (AAPL), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Washington Mutual (WM), Wells Fargo (WFC)MOST NOTEWORTHY: Apple, Novartis and Infineon were today's noteworthy downgrades: Morgan Keegan downgraded Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to Underperform from Market Perform citing increased evidence of broad-based weakness in consumer technology spending in the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, the firm expects challenges in the company's education vertical...	April 08, 2008
Consistent Cash Creators	The topic of consistent free cash flows came up in the Value Investing News Forum last week. A member was scanning the S&P 500 one company at a time looking for companies that are consistent free cash flow generators. I thought there might be a better way to scan far more companies to identify the ones that are consistently growing their free cash flows from year to year. As you might have noticed, I like to use linear regression to examine historical free cash flows. As part of doing thes...	February 08, 2008
Pre-Market Analyst Calls (July 11, 2007)	ABT started as Outperform at Wachovia.ACL started as Outperform at Wachovia.AGN started as Outperform at Wachovia.ATVI cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.BAS cut to Sector Perform at RBC.BJS cut to Sector Perform at RBC.BOL started as Mkt Perform at Wachovia.BSX started as Mkt Perform at Wachovia.CME cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.COO started as Mkt Perform at Wachovia.CPB raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.EFX raised to Outperform at JMP Securities.ESS raised to Overweight at Lehman.EW started as Outperfor...	July 11, 2007
Pre-Market Analyst Calls (June 28, 2007)	ACL raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.ANDW cut to Neutral at Baird.CRWN started as Buy at Oppenheimer.CSCO raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch.DNA reiterated Buy at Goldman Sachs with $102 target.ENOC started as Hold at Canaccord Adams.INTC raised to Overweight at Lehman.IPG target cut to $13.50 at Deutsche Bank.LSI estimates cut at Goldman Sachs.PNM raised to Hold at Jefferies.PNRA reiterated outperform at Baird.PRAA raised to Buy at Jefferies.RHT reiterated Outperform at Baird.SYK cut to Neutral at Go...	June 28, 2007
Earlybird Analyst Calls (June 14, 2007)	ACL started as Buy at Jefferies.AMGN started as Mkt Perform at Rodman... ...	June 14, 2007
Advanced Medical Optics (EYE)- In Need of Focus	It's been quite some time since I have last posted and I apologize for the disruption. But rather than create random drivel, I prefer to post when I believe I have something interesting to discuss.Advanced Medical Optics (EYE) is such an idea. Clearly, the company is terribly out of favor, with the stock down about 26% over the last year, having suffered two fairly significant problems in this period of time.The company announced on May 25th that it was recalling its Complete MoisturePlus contac...	June 10, 2007
Pre-Market Stock News (May 14, 2007)	(ACL) Alcan’s buyout bid by Alcoa is reportedly getting big interest from larger names such as Rio Tinto and others.(BRLC) Syntax-Brillian filed to sell 25.6M shares, although the shelf was telegraphed with earnings last week.(DCX) DaimlerChrysler is selling a majority stake in Chrysler to Cerberus Capital for $7.7 Billion; Chrysler will maintain 19.9% stake.(FACT) First Albany is recapitalizing and will receive a $50M investment from Matlin Patterson.(GE) GE’s NBC unit could or should merge...	May 14, 2007
Analyst initiations 4-05-07: Under Armour, Ford Motor & Cephalon initiated today	Filed under: Before the bell, Ford Motor (F), Allergan (AGN), Under Armour'A' (UA), Analyst initiationsMOST NOTEWORTHY: Specialty pharmaceutical companies make up today's most noteworthy list: The Bank of America initiated Shire plc (NASDAQ: SHPGY), Mentor Corp (NYSE: MNT), Alcon, Inc (NYSE: ACL) and Allergan, Inc (NYSE: AGN) with Buy ratings and initiated Cephalon, Inc (NASDAQ: CEPH), Forest Laboratories, Inc (NYSE: FRX), Sepracor Inc (NASDAQ: SEPR) with Neutral ratings. Bank of America's...	April 05, 2007

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