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Fly News Breaks for January 18, 2017
DECK, MCK, SALT, BURL, JWN, TRU
Jan 18, 2017 | 10:05 EDT
Catch up on today's top five analyst upgrades with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. TransUnion (TRU) upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley with analyst Toni Kaplan saying she views TransUnion's valuation as attractive and believes organic growth estimates are achievable. 2. Nordstrom (JWN) and Burlington Stores (BURL) were upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse. 3. Scorpio Bulkers (SALT) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Evercore ISI with analyst Jonathan Chappell saying the company took the painful steps of raising equity on a dilutive basis, enabling it to refinance with its banks and provide the best medium-term liquidity runway in the group. 4. McKesson (MCK) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Avondale. 5. Deckers Brands (DECK) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Buckingham with analyst Scott Krasik taking a more positive view on the recently completed holiday season and sales and margin expansion opportunities for the UGG brand through fiscal 2020, following favorable channel checks. He believes increased diversification with the UGG brand, more predictable product costs and operating expenses, and accelerating free cash flow will lead to operating margin back to a low to mid-teens rate by FY20. This list is just a portion of The Fly's full analyst coverage. To see The Fly's full Street Research coverage, click here.
News For TRU;JWN;BURL;SALT;MCK;DECK From the Last 2 Days
MCK
Apr 22, 2024 | 09:25 EDT
Evercore ISI says that while neither OptumRx nor Cardinal Health (CAH) would confirm the winner of the contract, McKesson (MCK) confirmed it had won the contract beginning in July. Cardinal this morning announced that its pharmaceutical distribution contracts with OptumRx, which represented 16% of fiscal 2023 revenue, is expiring at end of June and will not be renewed. Evercore estimates the win would represent a 50c-65c earnings per share benefit to McKesson on a full-year basis or likely half of that given the contract does not start until July. The firm does not see Cardinal's announcement as "heralding a broadly more competitive period for the distributors, but rather a one-off contract shift given what was likely an off-market contract."