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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: FIS, LMNX, RIMM, SII, TGT, TSYS ...
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Target Corp. (TGT), Research in Motion (RIMM), Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades:
<> RBC Capital upgraded Fidelity National (FIS) to outperform from sector perform. The firm upgraded the stock due to valuation, and its belief that the company will clear up issues related to its merger on its Analyst Day, scheduled for Dec. 7. The firm set a $28 target on the stock. <>Citigroup upgraded Smith International (SII) to buy from hold, citing the sell-off in shares following its 28M share equity offering. Note that Smith Internatio>>...
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Intel Raises Dividend – Analyst Blog
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Intel Corp (INTC) raised the quarterly cash dividend by 12.5%, totaling 63 cents a share in 2010. The dividend yield comes to 3.1%.
The company has been paying a cash dividend for the last 17 years and has raised the dividend 14 times since it started.
Intel has over $8 billion of net cash on its balance sheet, or around $1.58 a share. The $1.25 billion payment to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will take another 23 cents a share off the cash balance.
The remaining cash ($1.35 a share) is sufficient to fund its growth plans, even after paying the higher rate of dividend. We also expect Intel to c...
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Fund Performance Period 11
Fund Performance Period 10
Bookkeeping: Stopped Out of Analog Devices (ADI) Short
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My only surprise here is I was not stopped out late Friday; the stock fell a few cents short of stopping us out. As I reviewed the charts of the few shorts remaining in the portfolio this weekend, this one had jumped back over resistance late in the session Friday so we were expecting this; the main question was what price we'd be taken out at. I am fine with the thinking that went into this move as we were trying to maintain a modicum of short exposure, but everything is now surging so Analog Devices (ADI) joined the rest of the market in "good times".
Our stop loss was $27.53 but with t...
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