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Pivotal Research Upgrades Diamond Foods (DMND) to Hold

June 5, 2015 7:11 AM EDT
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Price: $37.56 --0%

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    3 Buy, 9 Hold, 0 Sell

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    Up: 20 | Down: 14 | New: 22
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Pivotal Research upgraded Diamond Foods (NASDAQ: DMND) from Sell to Hold with a price target of $27.00 (from $22.00). The change follows Q3 results.

Analyst Timothy S. Ramey said, "There was a lot to like about Diamond Foods 3Q. Reported adjusted EPS came in at $0.23 vs. $0.11 LY; well better than our $0.17 estimate and Street consensus of $0.15. Guidance for the July fiscal year was narrowed to $1.00-$1.10 from $0.95-$1.10 previously."

"The results of the 3Q will cause a fairly radical change to the outlook, assuming that it is a good idea to extrapolate off of this 3Q data point. Sales forecasts are coming down but GM in particular must be up for DMND to come close to the 10-15% EPS growth in the secular forecast – and we hasten to add that they have no explicit guidance yet for FY16," he added.

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Shares of Diamond Foods closed at $28.97 yesterday.



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