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Biogen (BIIB:NAS) and Lowe’s Companies (LOW:NYS) Downgraded

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Downgraded Stocks on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Today we are looking at companies whose share price has been downgraded by at least one analyst in the last few days.

Why Do Companies Get Downgraded?

Companies can get downgraded for a number of reasons but primarily due to reduced future earnings potential due to loss of contracts, faultering product lines, increasing costs relative to revenue or financial risk.

In the list below you can see the number of analysts we have in the StockCalc database along with the number of buy-hold-sell on the company.

Today’s Data on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Below we have today’s data for companies listed on all of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, and TSX Venture Exchange.

New York Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
LOW Lowe’s Companies Inc 6 1 1 0 1 0 4.2222 4.3000 Outperform
ETP Energy Transfer Partners LP 3 1 0 0 0 0 4.7500 5.0000 Buy
AZO AutoZone Inc 4 1 4 0 0 0 4.0000 4.1000 Outperform
ANET Arista Networks Inc 5 0 3 1 0 0 4.0000 4.1111 Outperform
TIF Tiffany & Co 1 0 3 0 0 0 3.5000 3.8000 Hold
USG USG Corp 2 1 3 0 0 0 3.8333 4.1667 Outperform
SIG Signet Jewelers Ltd 2 0 2 0 0 0 4.0000 4.2500 Outperform
TEX Terex Corp 1 0 4 0 0 0 3.4000 3.8000 Hold
SRG Seritage Growth Properties 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.0000 2.0000 Sell
HZO MarineMax Inc 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 5.0000 Outperform
SDRL Seadrill Ltd 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.0000 2.0000 Sell
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
LMC Leagold Mining Corp 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 5.0000 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
BIIB Biogen Inc 4 1 3 0 0 0 4.1250 4.2222 Outperform
MLCO Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd 3 0 0 1 0 0 4.2500 4.5000 Outperform
ALNY Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 1 0 1 1 0 0 3.3333 3.6667 Hold
JAKK Jakks Pacific Inc 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.0000 3.0000 Sell

Let’s look at a few companies…

Lets look at a couple of the companies on this list to get a better understanding of them.

BIIB:NAS Biogen

http://www.biogen.com
Biogen has 7400 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Biogen Inc is a biopharmaceutical company. It is engaged in discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering therapies to patients for the treatment of neurological, rare and autoimmune diseases.

LOW:NYS Lowe’s Companies

http://www.lowes.com
Lowe’s Companies has 290000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Lowe’s Companies Inc is a home-improvement products dealer. The firm’s stores offer products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair, and remodeling.

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Alibaba Group Holding (BABA:NYS) and Lowe’s Companies (LOW:NYS) Upgraded

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Upgraded Stocks on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Today we are looking at companies whose share price has been upgraded by at least one analyst in the last few days.

Why Do Companies Get Upgraded?

Companies can get upgraded for a number of reasons, but primarily due to improved future earnings potential due to new contracts, new products, cost savings or restructuring.

In the list below you can see the number of analysts we have in the StockCalc database along with the number of buy-hold-sell on the company.

Today’s Data on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Below we have today’s data for companies listed on all of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, and TSX Venture Exchange.

New York Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 5 0 1 0 0 0 4.6667 4.5000 Buy
LOW Lowe’s Companies Inc 7 1 1 0 1 0 4.3000 4.2000 Outperform
ITW Illinois Tool Works Inc 4 0 3 1 0 0 3.8750 3.7778 Outperform
NSC Norfolk Southern Corp 4 0 5 0 1 0 3.6000 3.3636 Outperform
HPQ HP Inc 5 0 2 0 0 0 4.4286 4.3333 Outperform
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co 5 0 3 0 0 0 4.2500 4.1111 Outperform
BBY Best Buy Co Inc 0 0 5 0 3 0 2.2500 2.2222 Underperform
COL Rockwell Collins Inc 4 0 4 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8571 Outperform
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc 3 0 7 0 1 0 3.3636 3.1818 Hold
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corp 4 1 2 0 1 0 3.8750 3.6250 Outperform
TIF Tiffany & Co 3 0 3 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8333 Outperform
WUBA 58.com Inc 1 0 1 0 1 0 3.0000 2.3333 Hold
EV Eaton Vance Corp 0 0 2 0 0 0 3.0000 2.5000 Hold
CSRA CSRA Inc 2 1 0 0 0 0 4.6667 4.3333 Buy
DATA Tableau Software Inc 3 0 5 0 0 0 3.7500 3.6667 Outperform
ANF Abercrombie & Fitch Co 1 0 2 0 4 0 2.1429 1.8571 Underperform
PWE Penn West Petroleum Ltd 1 0 6 0 2 0 2.7778 2.7500 Hold
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
PSK PrairieSky Royalty Ltd 3 2 5 0 0 0 3.8000 3.7000 Outperform
FTT Finning International Inc 3 2 3 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8571 Outperform
PWT Penn West Petroleum Ltd 1 0 6 0 2 0 2.7778 2.7500 Hold
SRT.UN Slate Retail REIT 2 1 1 0 0 0 4.2500 4.0000 Outperform
CWX CanWel Building Materials Group Ltd 3 2 1 0 0 0 4.3333 4.1667 Outperform
TSL Tree Island Steel Ltd 2 3 0 0 0 0 4.4000 4.2500 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
NTAP NetApp Inc 2 0 5 0 2 0 3.0000 2.7500 Hold
TTWO Take-Two Interactive Software Inc 2 0 1 1 0 0 3.7500 3.5000 Outperform
DGICB Donegal Group Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 0.0000 Hold
DGICA Donegal Group Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 0.0000 Hold
CVTI Covenant Transportation Group Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.6667 Outperform
MEIP MEI Pharma Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 3.0000 Buy

Let’s look at a few companies…

Lets look at a couple of the companies on this list to get a better understanding of them.

BABA:NYS Alibaba Group Holding

http://www.alibabagroup.com
Alibaba Group Holding has 50092 employees and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is an online and mobile commerce company. It operates China’s most popular online marketplaces such as Taobao (C2C), Tmall (B2C), and Juhuasuan. It also engages in advertising, digital media, cloud computing, and other.

LOW:NYS Lowe’s Companies

http://www.lowes.com
Lowe’s Companies has 290000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Lowe’s Companies Inc is a home-improvement products dealer. The firm’s stores offer products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair, and remodeling.

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Lowes Companies Inc. (LOW) Fundamental Valuation using Analyst Forecast Data

I used the Stockcalc website (www.stockcalc.com) to run a fundamental analysis for Lowes Companies (LOW:NYS)

Process:
I ran a Weighted Average Cost of Capital with the WACC Tool
I loaded the Analyst Estimate Data and used it to generate an Income Statement Forecast for 2016 to 2018
I then ran a Discounted Cash Flow with that Data.

The following screens show the steps:

Calculation of WACC for LOW:NYS

Lowes Companies WACC
The weighted average cost of capital for Lowes Companies (LOW:NYS)

This resulted in a WACC value of 8.78 for Lowes Companies Inc.

Next I loaded the Analyst Estimate Data and used it to generate an Income Statement Forecast for 2016 to 2018

LOW Analyst Estimates
Average Analyst Estimates for Lowes Companies Inc. (LOW:NYS)

 

LOW:NYS Income Statement
Income Statement Forecast for Lowes Companies Inc. (LOW:NYS)

 

I then loaded a Discounted Cash Flow using the above inputs

LOW:NYS DCF
Discounted Cash Flow Analysis for Lowes Companies (LOW:NYS)

Note – Stockcalc provides default or historic values to generate the initial valuation calculation- the user can then adjust based on their expectations:

Adjustments:
The cash flow values were taken directly from the Analyst estimates.  I reviewed the historic Capex figures and adjusted the ongoing Capital Expenditures to 0.9 billion from an average of 1.2 billion last 5 years based predominately on the last 2 years figures of 0.9 and 0.8 billion.  I also adjusted the terminal growth rate from the default of 3.0 to 3.4 given the Analyst projection for the next 3 years are 11% growth in EBITDA. These 2 adjustments resulted in a value of $74 per share.  I am not aware if there are redundant assets that would add to  company value.

The Analyst Mean Target Price for 2017 is $80.86.  This can be seen on the Average Analyst Estimates above.  To achieve that value I would need to increase the terminal value to 4.0 % per year in the discounted cash flow model.

Company Information:
Lowe’s Companies Inc. was incorporated in North Carolina in 1952 and has been publicly held since 1961. It is a Fortune(r) 100 company and a home improvement retailer. As of January 31, 2014, Lowe’s operated 1,832 home improvement and hardware stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico representing approximately 200 million square feet of retail selling space. The Company serves homeowners, renters and commercial business customers (Pro customer).

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