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GOLDMAN: Here are the 40 cheapest stocks on the market
Marathon Petroleum
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Ticker: VRTX
Price as of March 31: $117.97
Upside to target: 19.5%
Comment: Net income fell 499% to -$176.66 million in the fourth quarter, from $44.29 a year ago.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Phillips 66
Ticker: PSX
Price as of March 31: $78.60
Upside to target: 19.6%
Comment: The company cut its CEO's bonus by 35% last year as the oil crash weighed on revenues.
Source: Goldman Sachs
L-3 Communications
Ticker: LLL
Price as of March 31: $125.79
Upside to target: 20.0%
Comment: The company's National Security Solutions business received a contract worth $117 million for the U.S. Army’s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) program.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Priceline
Ticker: PCLN
Price as of March 31: $1164.15
Upside to target: 20.3%
Comment: Shares rose nearly 2% April 1 after Stifel analysts upgraded the stock to "Buy" from "Hold," with a price target of $1,400.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Mead Johnson Nutrition
Ticker: MJN
Price as of March 31: $100.53
Upside to target: 20.4%
Comment: Zacks downgraded the stock to “Sell” from “Hold” after a mixed fourth quarter performance. “Gross margin trend, currency headwinds and legal issues continue to pose challenges,” the analyst wrote, according to The Legacy.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Tiffany & Co.
Ticker: TIF
Price as of March 31: $88.01
Upside to target: 20.4%
Comment: Comparable store sales in the last holiday period declined 1% year-over-year on a constant-exchange-rate basis in the Americas.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Intuitive Surgical
Ticker: ISRG
Price as of March 31: $505.03
Upside to target: 20.8%
Comment: "Intuitive Surgical’s DaVinci robots will have some new competition due to a combined effort from Google and Johnson & Johnson," Wired reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Twenty-First Century Fox
Ticker: FOXA
Price as of March 31: $33.84
Upside to target: 21.2%
Comment: "I am also very proud of the creative successes that we have achieved at Twentieth Century Fox, which set a global box office record in 2014 and leads the industry with 24 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture nominations for "Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel,"" CEO Rupert Murdoch said in the Q2 earnings release.
Source: Goldman Sachs
EMC Corp.
Ticker: EMC
Price as of March 31: $25.56
Upside to target: 21.3%
Comment: EMC was the 8th worst-performing stock on the S&P 500 in the first quarter, with shares falling by over 14%.
Source: Goldman Sachs
FLIR Systems
Ticker: FLIR
Price as of March 31: $31.28
Upside to target: 21.5%
Comment: "2014 represented a significant year for FLIR in the thermal imaging industry," CEO Andy Teich said during the Q4 2014 earnings call. "Early in the year we launched our revolutionary new low-cost thermal imaging camera core, Lepton, and the world's first truly consumer oriented thermal camera, the FLIR ONE."
Source: Goldman Sachs
CF Industries
Ticker: CF
Price as of March 31: $283.68
Upside to target: 22.3%
Comment: "The firm has seen solid earnings estimate revision activity over the past month, suggesting analysts are becoming a bit more bullish on the firm’s prospects in both the short and long term," Zacks research analysts wrote.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Monsanto
Ticker: MON
Price as of March 31: $112.54
Upside to target: 22.6%
Comment: Shares rose by more than 4% after the company announced that its newest genetically modified soybeans grew fivefold in 2014 and will double next year, Bloomberg reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Actavis
Ticker: ACT
Price as of March 31: $297.62
Upside to target: 22.6%
Comment: Actavis intended to raise $22 billion in bonds to fund its acquisition of Allergan, but got over $70 billion of orders, Bloomberg reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
General Motors
Ticker: GM
Price as of March 31: $37.50
Upside to target: 22.7%
Comment: General Motors is stopping production in Russia, Europe's third largest market.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Union Pacific
Ticker: UNP
Price as of March 31: $108.31
Upside to target: 22.8%
Comment: Union Pacific’s profits beat estimates in the third quarter, rising 19% to $1.37 billion “boosted by a bumper grain crop and a rebound in consumer demand,” Bloomberg reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Cisco Systems
Ticker: CSCO
Price as of March 31: $27.53
Upside to target: 23.5%
Comment: Business Insider's Julie Bort reported: "Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, Jason Taylor, made several announcements at the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California, spelling out how the company could topple Cisco's dominance of the $23 billion ethernet switch market."
Source: Goldman Sachs
Juniper Networks
Ticker: JNPR
Price as of March 31: $22.58
Upside to target: 24.0%
Comment: A networking solution unveiled Monday "is designed to vastly improve the performance of applications that handle market and social media data feeds, execution routing, and big data analytics, empowering financial firms to make decisions faster, using real-time information," Andrew Bach, chief architect for financial services at Juniper Networks, told Enterprise Technology.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Discover Financial Services
Ticker: DFS
Price as of March 31: $56.35
Upside to target: 24.2%
Comment: Morningstar analysts rated the firm’s credit BBB+ Monday and the stock “three stars,” Dakota Financial News reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Autodesk
Ticker: ADSK
Price as of March 31: $58.64
Upside to target: 24.5%
Comment: In March, Autodesk launched Tinkerplay, a free app for kids of all ages to play with 3D design and printing.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Vulcan Materials
Ticker: VMC
Price as of March 31: $84.30
Upside to target: 24.6%
Comment: Vulcan recently announced that it will redeem all its outstanding notes worth $219 million, which have an interest rate of 6.40% and are due in 2017.
Source: Goldman Sachs
AbbVie
Ticker: ABBV
Price as of March 31: $58.54
Upside to target: 24.7%
Comment: AbbVie announced the acquisition of Pharmacyclics for $261.25 per share in cash and stock for its “strong expertise in kinase biology and oncology discovery.”
Source: Goldman Sachs
Harley-Davidson
Ticker: HOG
Price as of March 31: $60.74
Upside to target: 25.1%
Comment: "In international markets, our dealers in Asia Pacific , EMEA and Latin America posted their highest new motorcycle sales on record for each region, delivering on our expectation for international sales to grow at a faster rate than U.S. sales," CEO Keith Wandell said in the Q4 earnings release.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Cabot Oil & Gas
Ticker: COG
Price as of March 31: $29.53
Upside to target: 25.3%
Comment: The company saw record year-over-year production of crude oil and natural gas, as well as net income, in 2014.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Delphi Automotive
Ticker: DLPH
Price as of March 31: $79.74
Upside to target: 25.4%
Comment: Delphi Automotive announced April 2 that it completed a driverless, 3,400-mile long journey from San Francisco to New York.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Lam Research
Ticker: LRCX
Price as of March 31: $70.24
Upside to target: 29.6%
Comment: "For the year we grew revenue at twice the rate of the industry and made good progress on our market share objectives," said CEO Martin Anstice in the Q2 earnings release. "Our strong execution combined with a meaningful market expansion is enabling a compelling multi-year growth opportunity."
Source: Goldman Sachs
Amgen
Ticker: AMGN
Price as of March 31: $159.85
Upside to target: 30.1%
Comment: "Amgen plans to cut about 300 jobs and close one of its South San Francisco buildings as part of a reorganization that will combine cancer organization with Onyx Pharmaceuticals, which the biotech bought for $10.4 billion," the Wall Street Journal reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Wynn Resorts
Ticker: WYNN
Price as of March 31: $125.88
Upside to target: 31.9%
Comment: Wynn Resorts has encouraged its Macau-based staff to take unpaid leave, as customer numbers to the island continue to decline.
Source: Goldman Sachs
SanDisk
Ticker: SNDK
Price as of March 31: $63.62
Upside to target: 32.0%
Comment: In a note Monday, Bernstein wrote that SanDisk shares are trading 40% below the company’s replacement value, indicating that it is an attractive takeover candidate, according to Benzinga.
Source: Goldman Sachs
FedEx
Ticker: FDX
Price as of March 31: $165.45
Upside to target: 32.4%
Comment: In the third quarter, the company earned $2.01 per share during the quarter, beating expectations for $2.01, and revenue climbed 4% to $11.7 billion, virtually in line with the forecast of $11.79 billion.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Garmin
Ticker: GRMN
Price as of March 31: $47.52
Upside to target: 32.6%
Comment: Citi downgraded Garmin to "Sell"on concern that the upcoming Apple Watch will erode its market share.
Source: Goldman Sachs
PACCAR
Ticker: PCAR
Price as of March 31: $63.14
Upside to target: 33.0%
Comment: “PACCAR reported record annual revenues of $18.99 billion and net income of $1.36 billion for 2014," CEO Ron Armstrong said in the Q4 earnings release. "PACCAR achieved the second best annual net profit in the company’s history and the 76th consecutive year of net income.”
Source: Goldman Sachs
Tyson Foods
Ticker: TSN
Price as of March 31: $38.30
Upside to target: 33.2%
Comment: The company is one of McDonald's chicken suppliers, and has two years to phase out human antibiotics.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Alcoa
Ticker: AA
Price as of March 31: $12.92
Upside to target: 39.3%
Comment: Alcoa kicks off first quarter earnings season Wednesday and is expected to post $0.29 in EPS, up from $0.09 a year ago, and $6.09 billion in revenues, according to Estimize estimates cited in Benzinga.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Southwest Airlines
Ticker: LUV
Price as of March 31: $44.30
Upside to target: 40.0%
Comment: "Southwest Airlines Co. earned a record profit last year and the CEO benefited with a 24 percent increase in compensation, to $5 million," the Associated Press reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Michael Kors
Ticker: KORS
Price as of March 31: $65.75
Upside to target: 46.0%
Comment: Heavy discounts dragged down third-quarter profits for the luxury retailer, Reuters reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Keurig Green Mountain
Ticker: GMCR
Price as of March 31: $111.73
Upside to target: 48.6%
Comment: The company announced an agreement with Riley Foods that will introduce new brands under the K-Cup umbrella.
Source: Goldman Sachs
American Airlines
Ticker: AAL
Price as of March 31: $52.78
Upside to target: 49.7%
Comment: Deutsche Bank recently downgraded the stock on concern that a strong dollar, stronger non-US competition, and slower global GDP growth will reduce unit revenues, Dallas News reported.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Delta Air Lines
Ticker: DAL
Price as of March 31: $44.96
Upside to target: 53.5%
Comment: “As we begin 2015, we have a significant opportunity from lower fuel prices, which will drive more than $2 billion in fuel savings over 2014," CEO Richard Anderson said in the December quarter earnings release.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Chesapeake Energy
Ticker: CHK
Price as of March 31: $14.16
Upside to target: 55.4%
Comment: Chesapeake slashed its capital expenditures forecast to between $4 billion and $4.5 billion this year, down from $6.7 billion in 2014.
Source: Goldman Sachs
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