Top STock Analyst Reports For Microsoft, American Express & Others

 | Jan 17, 2020 12:58AM ET

Friday, January 17, 2020

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 Microsoft (MSFT), American Express (AXP) and Fidelity National Information Services (FIS). These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.

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Featured Reports

Per the Zacks analyst, expanding portfolio with the launch of new iPhones and Watch series 5 and Apple TV+ bodes well for Apple's prospects.

Per Zacks analyst, business diversification is a favorable factor for Goldman. However, legal issues linger.

The Zacks analyst believes that increase in Southern's regulated business customer base will support its revenue growth but is concerned over timing and cost overrun related to Vogtle project.

Per the Zacks analyst Dominion's plans to invest $26B to strengthen its infrastructure in the next five years will boost performance but share dilution could adversely impact its earnings.

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The Zacks analyst expects Boston Scientific to maintain its robust growth momentum across its structural heart and urology arms banking on strong rollout of WATCHMAN, ACURATE and LithoVue.

Per the Zacks analyst, Global Payments gains from its healthy revenue stream on the back of buyouts, alliances and electronic payment transactions.

Per the Zacks analyst, Barclays' business simplifying and restructuring efforts will likely continue to help in improving efficiency.

New Upgrades

The Zacks analyst believes that TC Energy's C$30 billion of accretive growth projects should support the company's stated dividend growth commitment of 8-10% annually out to 2021.

Per the Zacks analyst, Fox is expected to gain traction from growing demand for live programming, which is relatively immune to growing competition from subscription-based video-on-demand services.

Per the Zacks Analyst, with its new business unit, Next eMobility Solutions, Navistar will move towards an electrified future with plans to launch medium-duty electric trucks, going forward.

New Downgrades

Per the Zacks analyst, FEMSA grapples with soft operating margins at FEMSA Comercio's Health and Proximity Divisions on operating expense deleverage. This is partly weighing on earnings performance.

Per the Zacks analyst, soft demand across certain major end-markets such as automotive and semiconductor will hurt DuPont's organic sales. Higher manufacturing costs will also weigh on its margins.

Per a Zacks analyst, Altra Industrial's (AIMC) performance will be hurt by difficult end-market conditions in 2019 and 2020. Also, global economy related woes are concerning.


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