Top Stock Reports For Alphabet, JPMorgan & Comcast

 | Jan 20, 2020 03:25AM ET

Monday, January 20, 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 Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (GOOGL), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Comcast (CMCSA). These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.

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The Zacks analyst says that Amgen's new drugs like Aimovig and Evenity, biosimilars and international expansion provide incremental growth opportunities amid biosimilar erosion of its legacy products

Per the Zacks analyst, IBM's blockchain, cloud and ML capabilities, among others poises its offerings well to gain robust adoption.

Per the Zacks analyst, with more than 150 5G design wins to date, Qualcomm offers the flexibility and scalability needed for broad and fast 5G adoption through accelerated commercialization by OEMs.

Per the Zacks analyst, Intuit is gaining from solid adoption of TurboTax Live offering, and its lending product - QuickBooks Capital.

The Zacks analyst likes Biogen's decision to seek U.S. approval of Alzheimer's treatement, aducanumab.

Per the Zacks analyst, strong orders across ABB's businesses in Asia, Middle East and Africa region including India, Japan, and the UAE bode well for its growth.

The Zacks Analyst likes the improvement in operating ratio backed by cost-control efforts. However, weakness in overall volumes due to below-par performance of key units is concerning.

New Upgrades/h6

The Zacks Analyst appreciates BHP Group' s efforts to make its operations more efficient on the back of smarter technology adoption as well its focus on deleveraging its balance sheet.

Per the Zacks analyst, persistent innovation in flash-based solutions and strong adoption of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) are expected to benefit NetApp's financial performance.

Per the Zacks analyst, Paylocity is gaining from solid uptake of its HCM solutions among clients with below 50 employees. Healthy momentum in the core and upper end of the market is also a boon.

New Downgrades/h6

Per the Zacks analyst, elevated freight and distribution costs, increased sale of low-margin merchandise and higher shrink are hurting Dollar Tree's margins. This should persist in fiscal 2019.

Per the Zacks analyst, input cost inflation as well as higher operating and tariff-related costs are hurting Spectrum Brands' margins. It expects tariff costs of $80-$85 million in fiscal 2020.

Per a Zacks analyst, Altra Industrial (AIMC) will be adversely impacted by end-market and global economy-related concerns in 2019 and 2020. Also, forex woes might hurt.


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