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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Roche, Royal Dutch Shell, Citigroup, UnitedHealth and Costco Wholesale
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – January 22, 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: Roche Holding (RHHBY - Free Report) , Royal Dutch Shell , Citigroup (C - Free Report) , UnitedHealth (UNH - Free Report) and Costco Wholesale (COST - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Research Reports for Roche, Royal Dutch Shell and Citigroup
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 Roche Holding, Royal Dutch Shell and Citigroup. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
Roche’s shares have outperformed the Zacks Large Cap Pharmaceuticals industry over the past year (+31.7% vs. +15.1%), primarily reflecting solid sales of new drugs. Strong growth of Ocrevus, Perjeta, Tecentriq and Hemlibra countered biosimilar competition in Europe for Herceptin and MabThera. Particularly, MS drug Ocrevus witnessed strong growth on increased demand.
Roche’s dominant position in the breast cancer space continues to boost performance further. Also, label expansion of Tecentriq into additional indications is a positive. The recent Spark acquisition will boost Roche’s presence in the gene therapy space.
However, most of the legacy drugs are facing competition. Pipeline setbacks and biosimilar competition are concerns as well. Additionally, the persistent delay in the Spark acquisition is disappointing.
Shares of Royal Dutch Shell have lost -9.6% in the past six months against the Zacks Integrated Oil industry's decline of -7.1%, primarily reflecting the tough commodity-price backdrop. These are undoubtedly difficult times for the oil industry, but Shell is doing as good a job as any. It reported better-than-expected September-quarter results and we will likely see similar outperformance as the company reports Q4 results towards the end of this month.
The Anglo-Dutch company's position as a key supplier of liquefied natural gas should further benefit its long-term cash flow growth on the back of attractive growth opportunities. Moreover, its dividend is safe and secure. However, there are worries over drop in its cash flow excluding working capital while the company’s poor reserve replacement ratio raises concerns about future production.
Moreover, Shell’s $1.7-$2.3 billion impairment charge is expected to increase gearing. Hence, investors are advised to wait for a better entry point.
Citigroup’sshares have gained +11.8% over the past three months against the Zacks Major Regional Banks industry's rise of +7.4%. The Zacks analyst believes that net interest revenues will likely be supported by loan growth and mix, despite low rates in the days ahead. Also, the company’s steady capital-deployment activities are also commendable.
The company has an impressive earnings surprise history, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate in all the trailing four quarters. The company’s fourth-quarter 2019 results reflected higher revenues and loans, partly offset by rise in expenses and cost of credit.
Citigroup’s streamlining efforts, along with strategic investments in core business, bode well for the long term. However, pending litigation issues might keep legal expenses elevated. Additionally, decline in equity-market revenues and volatile underwriting business are concerns for the company.
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include UnitedHealth and Costco Wholesale.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Roche, Royal Dutch Shell, Citigroup, UnitedHealth and Costco Wholesale
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – January 22, 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: Roche Holding (RHHBY - Free Report) , Royal Dutch Shell , Citigroup (C - Free Report) , UnitedHealth (UNH - Free Report) and Costco Wholesale (COST - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Research Reports for Roche, Royal Dutch Shell and Citigroup
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 Roche Holding, Royal Dutch Shell and Citigroup. 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 >>>
Roche’s shares have outperformed the Zacks Large Cap Pharmaceuticals industry over the past year (+31.7% vs. +15.1%), primarily reflecting solid sales of new drugs. Strong growth of Ocrevus, Perjeta, Tecentriq and Hemlibra countered biosimilar competition in Europe for Herceptin and MabThera. Particularly, MS drug Ocrevus witnessed strong growth on increased demand.
Roche’s dominant position in the breast cancer space continues to boost performance further. Also, label expansion of Tecentriq into additional indications is a positive. The recent Spark acquisition will boost Roche’s presence in the gene therapy space.
However, most of the legacy drugs are facing competition. Pipeline setbacks and biosimilar competition are concerns as well. Additionally, the persistent delay in the Spark acquisition is disappointing.
Shares of Royal Dutch Shell have lost -9.6% in the past six months against the Zacks Integrated Oil industry's decline of -7.1%, primarily reflecting the tough commodity-price backdrop. These are undoubtedly difficult times for the oil industry, but Shell is doing as good a job as any. It reported better-than-expected September-quarter results and we will likely see similar outperformance as the company reports Q4 results towards the end of this month.
The Anglo-Dutch company's position as a key supplier of liquefied natural gas should further benefit its long-term cash flow growth on the back of attractive growth opportunities. Moreover, its dividend is safe and secure. However, there are worries over drop in its cash flow excluding working capital while the company’s poor reserve replacement ratio raises concerns about future production.
Moreover, Shell’s $1.7-$2.3 billion impairment charge is expected to increase gearing. Hence, investors are advised to wait for a better entry point.
Citigroup’sshares have gained +11.8% over the past three months against the Zacks Major Regional Banks industry's rise of +7.4%. The Zacks analyst believes that net interest revenues will likely be supported by loan growth and mix, despite low rates in the days ahead. Also, the company’s steady capital-deployment activities are also commendable.
The company has an impressive earnings surprise history, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate in all the trailing four quarters. The company’s fourth-quarter 2019 results reflected higher revenues and loans, partly offset by rise in expenses and cost of credit.
Citigroup’s streamlining efforts, along with strategic investments in core business, bode well for the long term. However, pending litigation issues might keep legal expenses elevated. Additionally, decline in equity-market revenues and volatile underwriting business are concerns for the company.
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include UnitedHealth and Costco Wholesale.
More Stock News: This Is Bigger than the iPhone!
It could become the mother of all technological revolutions. Apple sold a mere 1 billion iPhones in 10 years but a new breakthrough is expected to generate more than 27 billion devices in just 3 years, creating a $1.7 trillion market.
Zacks has just released a Special Report that spotlights this fast-emerging phenomenon and 6 tickers for taking advantage of it. If you don't buy now, you may kick yourself in 2020.
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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 http://www.zacks.com/performance for information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.