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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Verizon Communications, Novartis, Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, Intuitive Surgical and Northrop Grumman
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – September 31, 2020 – 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: Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ - Free Report) , Novartis AG (NVS - Free Report) , Abbott Laboratories (ABT - Free Report) , AT&T Inc. (T - Free Report) , Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG - Free Report) and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Reports for Verizon, Novartis and Abbott Labs
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 Verizon Communications, Novartis and Abbott Laboratories. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
Verizon shares have lagged the Zacks Wireless National industry in the year to date period (-3.9% vs. -1.3%), though it has handily outperformed rival AT&T on the back of stable financial profile and a disciplined network strategy, including accelerated 5G deployment despite economic uncertainties stemming from the COVID-19 crisis.
The company is changing its revenue mix toward newer growth services like cloud, security and professional services. Focus on online content delivery, mobile video and online advertising should stoke additional growth. Verizon expects to witness strong momentum heading into the second half of 2020, with continued 5G Ultra Wideband deployment in multiple cities across the country.
However, it is facing headwinds in the media business due to sluggish advertising trends. The company operates in a fiercely-competitive U.S. wireless market that strains margins. Also, Verizon is spending heavily on promotion and lucrative discounts to attract customers, which erodes profitability.
Shares of Novartis have lost -0.6% over the past six months against the Zacks Large-Cap Pharmaceuticals industry’s rise of +7.4%. The Zacks analyst believes that Novartis has a strong oncology portfolio and continues to work on developing its immuno-oncology pipeline. Besides, Sandoz is working on further advancing its portfolio of biosimilars and generics.
However, the company tightened its outlook for 2020 due to the pandemic woes. Nevertheless, Cosentyx and Entresto gained a decent market share amid the current scenario. Piqray, Mayzent and Beovu should boost sales too further. The biosimilar portfolio also gains traction from key new approvals. However, pipeline setbacks and generic competition are concerning.
Abbott shares have gained +17.4% over the past three months against the Zacks Medical Products industry’s rise of +5.5%. The Zacks analyst believes that the branded generics and international diabetes businesses should drive growth in the coming quarters. New product launches and acquisitions should boost sales further.
Abbott posted better-than-expected numbers for the second quarter. However, the figures declined year over year. Despite $615 million of COVID-19 diagnostic testing-related sales, this decline was primarily due to the pandemic-led fall in procedure volumes in many businesses.
However, the company’s Diabetes Care, Nutrition, and EPD arms collectively grew more than 9% in the first half of 2020 leveraging on the pandemic situation. Apart from the latest EUA for COVID-19 rapid antigen test, the company also obtained FDA for Libre 2 as an iCGM. It also received CE Mark for TriClip.
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Intuitive Surgical and Northrop Grumman.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Verizon Communications, Novartis, Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, Intuitive Surgical and Northrop Grumman
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – September 31, 2020 – 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: Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ - Free Report) , Novartis AG (NVS - Free Report) , Abbott Laboratories (ABT - Free Report) , AT&T Inc. (T - Free Report) , Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG - Free Report) and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Reports for Verizon, Novartis and Abbott Labs
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 Verizon Communications, Novartis and Abbott Laboratories. 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 >>>
Verizon shares have lagged the Zacks Wireless National industry in the year to date period (-3.9% vs. -1.3%), though it has handily outperformed rival AT&T on the back of stable financial profile and a disciplined network strategy, including accelerated 5G deployment despite economic uncertainties stemming from the COVID-19 crisis.
The company is changing its revenue mix toward newer growth services like cloud, security and professional services. Focus on online content delivery, mobile video and online advertising should stoke additional growth. Verizon expects to witness strong momentum heading into the second half of 2020, with continued 5G Ultra Wideband deployment in multiple cities across the country.
However, it is facing headwinds in the media business due to sluggish advertising trends. The company operates in a fiercely-competitive U.S. wireless market that strains margins. Also, Verizon is spending heavily on promotion and lucrative discounts to attract customers, which erodes profitability.
(You can read the full research report on Verizon here >>>)
Shares of Novartis have lost -0.6% over the past six months against the Zacks Large-Cap Pharmaceuticals industry’s rise of +7.4%. The Zacks analyst believes that Novartis has a strong oncology portfolio and continues to work on developing its immuno-oncology pipeline. Besides, Sandoz is working on further advancing its portfolio of biosimilars and generics.
However, the company tightened its outlook for 2020 due to the pandemic woes. Nevertheless, Cosentyx and Entresto gained a decent market share amid the current scenario. Piqray, Mayzent and Beovu should boost sales too further. The biosimilar portfolio also gains traction from key new approvals. However, pipeline setbacks and generic competition are concerning.
(You can read the full research report on Novartis here >>>)
Abbott shares have gained +17.4% over the past three months against the Zacks Medical Products industry’s rise of +5.5%. The Zacks analyst believes that the branded generics and international diabetes businesses should drive growth in the coming quarters. New product launches and acquisitions should boost sales further.
Abbott posted better-than-expected numbers for the second quarter. However, the figures declined year over year. Despite $615 million of COVID-19 diagnostic testing-related sales, this decline was primarily due to the pandemic-led fall in procedure volumes in many businesses.
However, the company’s Diabetes Care, Nutrition, and EPD arms collectively grew more than 9% in the first half of 2020 leveraging on the pandemic situation. Apart from the latest EUA for COVID-19 rapid antigen test, the company also obtained FDA for Libre 2 as an iCGM. It also received CE Mark for TriClip.
(You can read the full research report on Abbott here >>>)
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Intuitive Surgical and Northrop Grumman.
Today's Best Stocks from Zacks
Would you like to see the updated picks from our best market-beating strategies? From 2017 through Q2 2020, while the S&P 500 gained an impressive +44.0%, five of our strategies returned +50.9%, +93.8%, +122.2%, +153.0%, and even +156.8%.
This outperformance has not just been a recent phenomenon. From 2000 – Q2 2020, while the S&P averaged +5.5% per year, our top strategies averaged up to +51.7% per year.
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Inherent in any investment is the potential for loss. This material is being provided for informational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a security. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. It should not be assumed that any investments in securities, companies, sectors or markets identified and described were or will be profitable. All information is current as of the date of herein and is subject to change without notice. Any views or opinions expressed may not reflect those of the firm as a whole. Zacks Investment Research does not engage in investment banking, market making or asset management activities of any securities. These returns are from hypothetical portfolios consisting of stocks with Zacks Rank = 1 that were rebalanced monthly with zero transaction costs. These are not the returns of actual portfolios of stocks. The S&P 500 is an unmanaged index. Visit https://www.zacks.com/performancefor information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.