Zynga has filed a shelf registration statement that will allow the company to sell new shares into the market. This proposed secondary offering will be for up to 28,178,201 shares, which are worth a cumulative ...

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, February 12, 2014. They include Amazon, Control4, Ocwen Financial, Sprint and Veeco Instruments....

Open Compute, or OCP for short, is an organization that was founded by Facebook in 2011. According to the organization’s website, Open Compute’s goal is to “build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures ...

In a report published Wednesday, MLV & Co analyst Michael D. Peterson downgraded the rating on Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD ) from Buy to Hold, and removed the $65.00 price target. In the report, MLV & Co ...

AMCOL International (NYSE: ACO ) today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement with Imerys S.A. (OTC: IMYSF ) pursuant to which AMCOL shareholders will receive USD $41 per share in cash for ...

Another article in Benzinga recently covered why Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR ) has been soaring. Over the last week of market action, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is up more than 40 ...

There was not a single analyst who called The Great Recession. Even closer at home, when Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) was trading at over $700 a share in October 2012, some analysts were calling for it to go ...

As detailed in another article on Benzinga , long-term investors should applaud the falling price of oil. The main exchange traded fund for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO ), is down in recent market ...

CenturyLink is a highly shorted stock, in part because of its major dividend yield, one of the highest in its peer group. So what happens when you see an analyst upgrade a stock like this? The timing of ...

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. They include Alcatel-Lucent, CenturyLink, Cisco Systems , FireEye and ...

GoPro Inc., maker of a hands-free, high-definition video camera that can be attached to a variety of objects, animals, or people in motion, filed a confidential registration for an initial public offering ...

Last week saw fourth-quarter earnings results from two of the premier players in the social media sector: Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD). Neither company’s results proved encouraging ...

Sometimes analysts have to take heat for making bad calls. It is not uncommon for an analyst to make a pre-earnings call that simply misses the mark. Other times they make calls that would have made major ...

Fairway Group Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: FWM) managed to crush its prospects, and now the grocery store and food retailer is going to have to somehow convince shareholders that it is a value stock of sorts. ...

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The top equity strategist at Merrill Lynch has updated the High Quality and Dividend Yield screen of stocks to buy, adding some names that may provide investors solid 2014 returns.

Dispersion strategies can bring big profits to those with superior stock picking skills.

The equity strategy team at J.P. Morgan presented a new research report that actually makes a very solid case not only for equities, but for equities with higher emerging market exposure. Here are 10 picks ...

Box, which counts Dropbox among its rivals, has reportedly filed to go public.

Friday is a strange day in the markets. The month of January is closing out with the first monthly January loss in three years, after a huge 2013 of course. Yet there were six initial public offerings ...