Of 55 sell-side analysts, the number which rate the stock a Buy or Strong Buy: 55.
The sell-side analysts subtract 3% from 8% to get a pure default loss premium of 5%.
Deltic Timber, an El Dorado, Ark. owner of timberland, lost all five sell-side analysts who had followed the company.
He has gathered 65 projections, 38 of them sell-side analysts and 27 independents.
Prospective sell-side analysts should pretty much come in with a brown bag over their heads, eyeholes cut out of course.
Granted iPhone sales were slightly under what the sell-side analysts would like, but relative to expectations it was no calamity.
The Crofts do not take forecasts from sell-side analysts at face value.
Sell-side analysts continue to ratchet down their expectations for Intel for the September quarter and beyond amid ongoing concerns about weak PC demand.
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And even the sell-side analysts get their underlings to do them.
Working as a buy-side analyst in the financial industry, I have had many conversations with colleagues about how little help sell-side analysts are to their clients.
The health care business is not even on the radar of most sell-side analysts who cover Verizon on Wall Street, according to a search of analyst notes.
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Some 74% of sell-side analysts have a negative rating on Commerzbank, according to Dan Waterman of brokerage Aviate Global, and the stock has been heavily shorted by hedge funds.
Although executives now feel under less market pressure since the discrediting of the Wall Street sell-side analysts who pushed them to have ever-shorter time-horizons, they still hear the market's call.
First Solar shares are taking a beating Wednesday morning after the company posted mixed Q4 results and offered disappointing Q1 guidance, triggering a flurry of cautious commentary from the sell-side analysts, including several downgrades.
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Going a step further, why has nobody on the Street begun to pat themselves on the back for making a monster call (18 of 29 sell-side analysts rate Home Depot at a buy or overweight)?
Prior to the JOBS Act, sell-side analysts were prohibited from publishing research before the IPO, for 40 days after the IPO, and in the 15 days before and after lock-up agreements with pre-IPO stockholders and the company expire.
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Even though BP is in trouble, most sell-side analysts know the first rule of job preservation is to throw their support behind a beleaguered company in the faint hope that their firm may get a banking mandate if the company is the target of a takeover or is forced to sell itself.
We like to assume that all will be well if only we could put a stop to RTOs, securitizations, derivatives, junk bonds, LBOs, hedge funds, leveraged EFTs (not really an ethical thing, but something that has been similarly demonized), sell-side analysts, and as anything else that comes our way in the future.
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But there are a lot of other big question marks over Pfizer. (As Yogi Berra and Niels Bohr both noted, it is very hard to make predictions, especially about the future.) As part of my research, I pooled the predictions of six sell-side analysts, and found some surprising disagreements about the road ahead for Pfizer.
Fortune reporter Philip Elmer-DeWitt compiles forecasts on Apple from sell-side and independent analysts.
Fortune reporter Philip Elmer-Dewitt compiles sell-side and independent analysts forecasts on Apple.
FORBES: iPhone Estimates Range from 43 Million to 63 Million
My estimates are above the sell-side average estimate of 47.6 million, below the 52.3 million independent analysts and about one million higher than the mean for all of them.
FORBES: iPhone Estimates Range from 43 Million to 63 Million
For all of the talk about analysts, bankers, traders and fund managers at buy-side and sell-side firms, the reality is that these firms also employ numerous assistants.
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