Wall Street jumps to eight-week high on financials, healthcare

MKM Partners Remains Neutral Following Mattel's (MAT) 3Q EPS Miss

MKM Partners reiterated a Neutral rating and $24.00 price target on Mattel Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) following the company's 3Q15 earnings results. Revenue and EPS of $1.792bn and $0.71, came in below consensus estimates of $1.888bn and $0.80.

Analyst Eric Handler commented, "3Q Misses On FX Headwinds; Near-Term... More

Leerink Partners Cuts Price target on UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Following 1c EPS Beat

Leerink Partners maintained an Outperform UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), and cut the price target to $150.00 (from $160.00), following the company's 3Q15 earnings results. 3Q EPS of $1.65 beat consensus by a penny.

Analyst Ana Gupte commented, "UNH reported an in-line though high quality quarter. Consolidated MLR, which saw a meaningful deterioration in 2Q, encouragingly improved QoQ with FY15 MLR guided above the midpoint of guidance range. Management also directionally guided to at least inline... More

MKM Partners Raises Price Target on Netflix (NFLX) Following 3Q15 Earnings Results

MKM Partners reiterated a Buy rating on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and raises the price target to $145.00 (from $130.00), following the company's 3Q15 earnings results. U.S. net paid additions of 1.01mn were well below guidance of 1.45mn. Gross additions were inline/ahead of expectations but... More

FBR Capital Remains Bullish on UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Following 3Q15 Earnings Results

FBR Capital reiterated an Outperform rating and $135.00 price target on UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) following the company's 3Q15 earnings results. EPS was reported at $1.65, versus the consensus of $1.64. MLR was 80.6%, which was in line with the consensus.

Analyst Steven Halper commented, "UnitedHealth Group... More

Oppenheimer Raises Price Target on Netflix (NFLX) Following 3Q15 Earnings Results

Oppenheimer reiterated an Outperform rating on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and raised the price target to $130.00 (from $125.00), following the company's 3Q15 earnings results.

Analyst Jason Helfstein commented, "While 3Q results were mixed, we are increasing our price target to $130 from $125 following 4Q US/Int'l... More

Oppenheimer Cuts Price Target on HCA Holdings (HCA) Following 3Q Results Preview

Oppenheimer maintained an Outperform rating on HCA Holdings (NYSE: HCA), and cut the price target to $100.00 (from $105.00), following a 3Q results preview. Revenues are expected to be $9.856B (Street consensus: $9.85B) as same-store adj-admissions growth was 3.6%.

Analyst Michael Wiederhorn commented, "HCA previewed 3Q15... More

Canaccord Genuity Raises Price Target on Netflix (NFLX) Following 3Q15 Earnings Results

Canaccord Genuity reiterated a Buy rating on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and raised the price target to $125.00 (from $120.00), following the company's 3Q15 earnings results. For the first time since the 3Q14 report, Netflix reported weaker-than-expected results versus guidance and consensus expectations. Canaccord does not believe that the results weaken their long-term thesis, and is prepared for continued volatility... More

Evercore ISI Mantains Sell on Netflix (NFLX) Following 3Q15 Earnings Results

Evercore ISI maintained a Sell rating and $69.00 price target on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) following the company's 3Q15 earnings results. Netflix reported a weaker domestic net addition quarter of 0.88m, well below guidance/consensus of 1.2m. Management cited higher involuntary churn stemming from the industry switch... More

BMO Capital Reiterates Market Perform on Netflix (NFLX) Following 3Q15 Earnings results

BMO Capital reiterated a Market Perform rating and $115.00 price target on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), following the company's 3Q15 earnings results. EPS of $0.07 was slightly below consensus of $0.08.

Analyst Daniel Salmon commented, "EPS of $0.07 was in line with our estimate for 3Q15 and slightly below... More

RBC Capital Remains Bullish on Netflix (NFLX) Following 3Q Results

RBC Capital reiterated an Outperform rating and $140.00 price target on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), following the company's 3Q earnings results. NFLX reported $1.74B in Revenue, and was just below the Street at $1.75B, while GAAP EPS of $0.07 matched the Street at $0.07.

Analyst Mark Mahaney... More