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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Alphabet, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, Capital One and Manulife
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – July 25, 2018 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Alphabet (GOOGL - Free Report) , General Electric (GE - Free Report) , Morgan Stanley (MS - Free Report) , Capital One (COF - Free Report) and Manulife (MFC - Free Report) .
Top Stock Reports for Alphabet, GE and Morgan Stanley
The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Alphabet, General Electric and Morgan Stanley. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
Alphabet’s shares have outperformed the Zacks Internet Services industry in the last year (the stock is up +25% vs. a +7.6% increase for the industry). Alphabet delivered strong second-quarter earnings on robust mobile growth, strong network advertising revenues, cloud, hardware and Play revenues.
The Zacks analyst likes the company's focus on innovation, AI, cloud, home automation space, strategic acquisitions and Android OS. These initiatives should continue to aid its top-line growth. Further, its partnership with PayPal remains positive. Also, the company has shown good execution to date, more or less maintaining its dominant share in a competitive, fast-growing search market.
However, Alphabet suffers from litigation issues which might hurt its profitability. Moreover, it's increased spending on its consumer gadgets, YouTube video app and cloud computing services remain concerns. In addition, rising competition in the online advertisement market poses serious risk to the company's position.
Shares of General Electric have underperformed the S&P 500 index in the year-to-date period (-25.5% vs. +5.4%). General Electric had decided to restructure its business portfolio to evolve into a high-tech industrial company — focused on Aviation, Power and Renewable Energy. As a result, the company will gradually separate GE Healthcare into a stand-alone company and exit oil and gas businesses by disposing its 62.5% stake in Baker Hughes.
As planned earlier, GE Transportation will be divested to Wabtec Corp. and efforts are on track to shrink exposure in GE Capital business. The Zacks analyst thinks that when accomplished, these actions will help in improving shareholder value.
As for now, the company beat earnings and sales estimates in second quarter 2018. However, earnings fell 10% year over year on weakness in margins. For 2018, momentum will be strong for Aviation and Healthcare segments, while Power will continue to remain a drag.
Buy-ranked Morgan Stanley’s shares have underperformed the Zacks Investment Banking industry over the last six months (-10.7% vs. -6.9%). Also, the company possesses an impressive earnings surprise history, beating expectations in each of the trailing four quarters. Its second quarter 2018 results reflect better-than-expected trading and decent investment banking performances.
The Zacks analyst likes the company’s efforts to strengthen wealth management operations, focus on corporate lending and normalized levels of trading activities, which will continue to support revenues. While slowdown in debt underwriting and elevated expense levels are expected to hurt growth, higher interest rates and tax cuts will likely lead to increased profitability. Further, capital deployment activities reflect strong balance sheet position.
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Capital One and Manulife.
The Hottest Tech Mega-Trend of All
Last year, it generated $8 billion in global revenues. By 2020, it's predicted to blast through the roof to $47 billion. Famed investor Mark Cuban says it will produce "the world's first trillionaires," but that should still leave plenty of money for regular investors who make the right trades early.
Zacks Equity Research provides the best of quantitative and qualitative analysis to help investors know what stocks to buy and which to sell for the long-term.
Continuous coverage is provided for a universe of 1,150 publicly traded stocks. Our analysts are organized by industry which gives them keen insights to developments that affect company profits and stock performance. Recommendations and target prices are six-month time horizons.
Strong Stocks that Should Be in the News
Many are little publicized and fly under the Wall Street radar. They're virtually unknown to the general public. Yet today's 220 Zacks Rank #1 "Strong Buys" were generated by the stock-picking system that has nearly tripled the market from 1988 through 2015. Its average gain has been a stellar +26% per year. See these high-potential stocks free >>.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Alphabet, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, Capital One and Manulife
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – July 25, 2018 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Alphabet (GOOGL - Free Report) , General Electric (GE - Free Report) , Morgan Stanley (MS - Free Report) , Capital One (COF - Free Report) and Manulife (MFC - Free Report) .
Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Get #1Stock of the Day pick for free.
Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Reports for Alphabet, GE and Morgan Stanley
The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Alphabet, General Electric and Morgan Stanley. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
You can see all of today’s research reports here >>>
Alphabet’s shares have outperformed the Zacks Internet Services industry in the last year (the stock is up +25% vs. a +7.6% increase for the industry). Alphabet delivered strong second-quarter earnings on robust mobile growth, strong network advertising revenues, cloud, hardware and Play revenues.
The Zacks analyst likes the company's focus on innovation, AI, cloud, home automation space, strategic acquisitions and Android OS. These initiatives should continue to aid its top-line growth. Further, its partnership with PayPal remains positive. Also, the company has shown good execution to date, more or less maintaining its dominant share in a competitive, fast-growing search market.
However, Alphabet suffers from litigation issues which might hurt its profitability. Moreover, it's increased spending on its consumer gadgets, YouTube video app and cloud computing services remain concerns. In addition, rising competition in the online advertisement market poses serious risk to the company's position.
(You can read the full research report on Alphabet here >>>).
Shares of General Electric have underperformed the S&P 500 index in the year-to-date period (-25.5% vs. +5.4%). General Electric had decided to restructure its business portfolio to evolve into a high-tech industrial company — focused on Aviation, Power and Renewable Energy. As a result, the company will gradually separate GE Healthcare into a stand-alone company and exit oil and gas businesses by disposing its 62.5% stake in Baker Hughes.
As planned earlier, GE Transportation will be divested to Wabtec Corp. and efforts are on track to shrink exposure in GE Capital business. The Zacks analyst thinks that when accomplished, these actions will help in improving shareholder value.
As for now, the company beat earnings and sales estimates in second quarter 2018. However, earnings fell 10% year over year on weakness in margins. For 2018, momentum will be strong for Aviation and Healthcare segments, while Power will continue to remain a drag.
(You can read the full research report on General Electric here >>>).
Buy-ranked Morgan Stanley’s shares have underperformed the Zacks Investment Banking industry over the last six months (-10.7% vs. -6.9%). Also, the company possesses an impressive earnings surprise history, beating expectations in each of the trailing four quarters. Its second quarter 2018 results reflect better-than-expected trading and decent investment banking performances.
The Zacks analyst likes the company’s efforts to strengthen wealth management operations, focus on corporate lending and normalized levels of trading activities, which will continue to support revenues. While slowdown in debt underwriting and elevated expense levels are expected to hurt growth, higher interest rates and tax cuts will likely lead to increased profitability. Further, capital deployment activities reflect strong balance sheet position.
(You can read the full research report on Morgan Stanley here >>>).
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Capital One and Manulife.
The Hottest Tech Mega-Trend of All
Last year, it generated $8 billion in global revenues. By 2020, it's predicted to blast through the roof to $47 billion. Famed investor Mark Cuban says it will produce "the world's first trillionaires," but that should still leave plenty of money for regular investors who make the right trades early.
See Zacks' 3 Best Stocks to Play This Trend >>
Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Get #1 Stock of the Day pick for free.
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Zacks Equity Research provides the best of quantitative and qualitative analysis to help investors know what stocks to buy and which to sell for the long-term.
Continuous coverage is provided for a universe of 1,150 publicly traded stocks. Our analysts are organized by industry which gives them keen insights to developments that affect company profits and stock performance. Recommendations and target prices are six-month time horizons.
Strong Stocks that Should Be in the News
Many are little publicized and fly under the Wall Street radar. They're virtually unknown to the general public. Yet today's 220 Zacks Rank #1 "Strong Buys" were generated by the stock-picking system that has nearly tripled the market from 1988 through 2015. Its average gain has been a stellar +26% per year. See these high-potential stocks free >>.
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