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Robinhood Markets Grows Into ‘Best-In-Class’ Brokerage, Analyst Says

Analysts have updated coverage and raised price targets on Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) after the company hosted its first investor day on Wednesday and showed significant growth across customers, assets under custody and trading volumes.  Expert Ideas: Goldman Sachs analyst James Yaro assumed coverage of Robinhood Markets on Thursday and upgraded the stock from Neutral […]

An Analyst Sours On Upstart Stock But Says SoFi Tech Could Become ‘American Express’ Of Fintech

JP Morgan analyst Reginald L. Smith noted that 2024 was a tale of two halves for fintech stocks. After a lagging start to the year, the aggregate market cap of the analyst’s fintech coverage universe has increased more than $65 billion since mid-September, fueled by cheerful calendar third-quarter 2024 results and management commentary, two rate […]

This Applied Materials Analyst Turns Bearish; Here Are Top 5 Downgrades For Thursday

Top Wall Street analysts changed their outlook on these top names. For a complete view of all analyst rating changes, including upgrades and downgrades, please see our analyst ratings page. Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore downgraded the rating for Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) from Equal-Weight to Underweight and lowered the price target from $179 to […]

Neurology-Focused Alector Downgraded On Failed Alzheimer’s Study, BofA Securities Highlights Lack Of Catalysts

Bank of America Securities has downgraded Alector, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALEC), citing the failure of its AL002 program. Alector recently released results from the INVOKE-2 Phase 2 trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of AL002 in slowing disease progression in individuals with early Alzheimer’s disease (AD). But AL002 failed to meet the primary endpoint of slowing Alzheimer’s clinical progression […]