Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted September 20, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted September 20, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up All the market-moving Wall Street chatter from Friday (This is CNBC Pro’s live coverage of Friday’s analyst calls and Wall Street chatter. Please refresh every 20-30 minutes to view the latest posts.) An e-commerce giant and a snack maker were among the stocks being talked about by analysts. Evercore ISI raised its price target on This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to $240, implying more than 25% upside ahead. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley downgraded PepsiCo to equal weight. Check out the latest calls and chatter below. All times ET. 5:49 a.m.: Evercore ISI hikes This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up price target Evercore ISI is ******** big on This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ’s streaming service. Analyst Mark Mahaney reiterated his outperform rating and raised his price target from $225 to $240, which implies 26.4% upside. The stock is up nearly 25% year to date. Mahaney also said the e-commerce giant ******** the firm’s leading large cap long pick. AMZN YTD mountain AMZN year to date “We focus on This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ’s ramped up focus and opportunity with Prime Video,” Mahaney said in a note to clients. “ This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up has ramped up its content on Prime Video (e.g. more NFL games including a WildCard Playoff game, 66 regular season NBA games in ’25, and, especially, the 2024 PPA World Championships). And monetizing that content via advertising has become a higher priority.” According to Mahaney, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Prime Video will generate between $3 billion and $5.9 billion in total sales next year, potentially driving an acceleration in This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ’s total ad revenue growth next year. The analyst noted that This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call that its advertising revenue was at a $50 billion run rate, and that the company was “at the beginning of what’s possible in our video advertising.” — Pia Singh 5:49 a.m.: Morgan Stanley downgrades PepsiCo Don’t expect PepsiCo shares to make much headway going forward, according to Morgan Stanley. Analyst Dara Mohsenian downgraded the snacks and beverage giant to equal weight from overweight. His price target of $185 implies upside of just 6% from Thursday’s close. He cited “lingering [organic sales growth] risk and building EPS risk from US topline softness, driven by both muted category growth, as well as PEP market share losses, with little signs of a pickup post recent greater spending/promotion.” “We upgraded the stock to Overweight back in March at what we thought was a good entry point, expecting OSG would inflect in H2 as Pepsi cycled easier comparisons, Quaker recall issues dissipated, and PEP’s pricing power would reemerge on a relative basis vs HPC peers,” Mohsenian said. “However, that fundamental call was wrong.” PepsiCo shares are up just 2% in 2024, lagging the broader market. PEP YTD mountain PEP year to date — Fred Imbert This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #marketmoving #Wall #Street #chatter #Friday This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/130826-all-the-market-moving-wall-street-chatter-from-friday/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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