FBR Capital upgraded Netflix to Outperform from Market Perform and raised its price target for shares to $900 from $400. The stock in premarket trading is up $61.91 to $537.37 after the streaming service reported Q1 results last night. FBR says its survey work with ClearVoice Research revealed that domestic Netflix subscribers "love the service more than TV." The firm now believes Netflix is very likely to move towards 180M global subscribers by 2020. It sees international streaming, with a market opportunity nearly six times the U.S., as supporting its new $900 price target. Netflix price targets are being raised around the Street following the company's Q1 results. Cantor took its target up to $580, Citigroup $584 and Needham $600. FBR at $900 is an outlier.
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