Maybe that analyst needs to go back and talk to TPG about what they actually think Inmarsat would be worth before playing with his calculator?
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In simpler terms, a brokerage analyst needs to explain why the company will generate more cash over the next few years than he previously forecast to justify maintaining his price target.
What the company needs, says analyst Phil Weiss at Argus Research, is a captain who will lead Chesapeake away from its perennial focus on asset accumulation into a disciplined program of asset harvest.
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Pentaho can serve the business analyst who needs to quickly grab some information, add some context and then analyze and share it using Pentaho Instaview.
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Even if fewer countries need a financial fireman, goes the logic, the world still needs an economic umpire, an objective analyst of problems and judge of fair play.
"I'm not convinced that the prospect for universal messaging on one mailbox can handle all your needs, " says Seamus McAteer, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications (JPTR).
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Rob Haines, an analyst at CreditSights, said Tuesday that AIG needs to move quickly.
Analyst David Hendler of CreditSights says Citi still needs to upgrade systems that date from that period, but somehow never got any attention.
Such is the nature of an increasingly fragmented media industry, says Peter Boyland, an analyst with IHS Global Insight, and Sky needs to evolve accordingly.
Paul Corrigan, a health analyst who once advised Tony Blair, believes the system needs many more hospital takeovers.
Observers like Richard Windsor, a former technology analyst with Nomura, are unequivocal: H-P needs a new board of directors, period.
James Antos, a banking analyst at Mizuho Securities in Hong Kong, says CMB needs to do better in managing its cost of funding.
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"It's not the kind of situation where fears are just going to fade away, since the required amount of aid that Spain will need is likely to mount given the increasing needs of local government, " said Masayuki Doshida, a senior market analyst at Rakuten Securities in Japan.
Another analyst said the truce "is a start, " but much more needs to be done.
Howard Penney, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey in New York, thinks Starbucks needs to cut its rate of expansion in America by half.
"The argument that the rest of Europe will simply acquiesce in whatever kind of arrangement the British electorate opts for in a referendum, because Britain's partners need the U.K. as much as or even more than the U.K. needs them, is an illusion, " argues Peter Ludlow, a longtime Brussels-based analyst of EU politics.
"Adecco definitely needs a good management team in the U.K., " said Michael Foeth, an analyst with Bank Vontobel, who said Spring Group's focus on professional staffing could also bring in growth and profitability in the future.
David Smilde, an analyst with the U.S.-based Washington Office on Latin America, said the opposition needs to run a candidate in the presidential election even though he believes it will almost certainly lose.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) supplier Foxconn, which has boosted its China workforce 50 percent in two years to 1.2 million, needs to use employees in more parts of the country to meet demand, Jitendra Waral, a Bloomberg Industries technology analyst, said in a note published today.
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