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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Visa, Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Applied Materials
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – September 15, 2021 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Visa Inc. (V - Free Report) , salesforce.com, inc. (CRM - Free Report) , Morgan Stanley (MS - Free Report) , Citigroup Inc. (C - Free Report) and Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Reports for Visa, salesforce and Morgan Stanley
The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Visa, salesforce.com, and Morgan Stanley. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
Shares of Visa have outperformed the Zacks Financial Transaction Services industry in the year to date period (+2.9% vs. -12.4%), with the Zacks analyst citing the Visa Europe acquisition, increasing business volumes, as well as a solid balance sheet as the reasons for the stock's outperformance.
A number of acquisitions and alliances have paved way for its long-term growth. The coronavirus vaccine development and the gradual revival of consumer confidence is likely to drive spending, thereby expanding business volumes. Visa remains committed to boost its shareholder value on the back of a sturdy cash position. High operating expenses have been stressing the operating margins though. Ramped-up client incentives are likely to dent the top line.
salesforce shares have gained +19.3% in the last six months against the Zacks Computer Software industry's gain of +25.8%, however, things seem to be improving for it. The Zacks analyst believes that the company is benefiting from a robust demand environment as customers are undergoing a major digital transformation.
Its diverse cloud offerings, clientele strength, strategic acquisitions and partnerships are key drivers. The company is to become a leader in enterprise team collaboration solution space on the back of its recent acquisition of Slack. This will also enable it to better compete with Microsoft's Teams product. Stiff competition, unfavorable currency fluctuations along with increasing investments in international expansions and data centers are major concerns for the company.
Shares of Morgan Stanley have gained +13.7% in the last six months against the Zacks Investment Banking industry's gain of +2.8%. The Zacks analyst believes that the company's financials are likely to benefit from its focus on less capital-market dependent operations and opportunistic buyouts.
Robust capital deployment activities indicate a solid liquidity position. Uncertainty about the performance of the capital markets remains a major concern for Morgan Stanley. Persistently increasing expenses are likely to hurt the bottom line to an extent in the near term.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Inherent in any investment is the potential for loss. This material is being provided for informational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a security. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. It should not be assumed that any investments in securities, companies, sectors or markets identified and described were or will be profitable. All information is current as of the date of herein and is subject to change without notice. Any views or opinions expressed may not reflect those of the firm as a whole. Zacks Investment Research does not engage in investment banking, market making or asset management activities of any securities. These returns are from hypothetical portfolios consisting of stocks with Zacks Rank = 1 that were rebalanced monthly with zero transaction costs. These are not the returns of actual portfolios of stocks. The S&P 500 is an unmanaged index. Visit https://www.zacks.com/performance for information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Visa, Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Applied Materials
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – September 15, 2021 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Visa Inc. (V - Free Report) , salesforce.com, inc. (CRM - Free Report) , Morgan Stanley (MS - Free Report) , Citigroup Inc. (C - Free Report) and Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Reports for Visa, salesforce and Morgan Stanley
The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Visa, salesforce.com, and Morgan Stanley. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
You can see all of today's research reports here >>>
Shares of Visa have outperformed the Zacks Financial Transaction Services industry in the year to date period (+2.9% vs. -12.4%), with the Zacks analyst citing the Visa Europe acquisition, increasing business volumes, as well as a solid balance sheet as the reasons for the stock's outperformance.
A number of acquisitions and alliances have paved way for its long-term growth. The coronavirus vaccine development and the gradual revival of consumer confidence is likely to drive spending, thereby expanding business volumes. Visa remains committed to boost its shareholder value on the back of a sturdy cash position. High operating expenses have been stressing the operating margins though. Ramped-up client incentives are likely to dent the top line.
(You can read the full research report on Visa here >>>)
salesforce shares have gained +19.3% in the last six months against the Zacks Computer Software industry's gain of +25.8%, however, things seem to be improving for it. The Zacks analyst believes that the company is benefiting from a robust demand environment as customers are undergoing a major digital transformation.
Its diverse cloud offerings, clientele strength, strategic acquisitions and partnerships are key drivers. The company is to become a leader in enterprise team collaboration solution space on the back of its recent acquisition of Slack. This will also enable it to better compete with Microsoft's Teams product. Stiff competition, unfavorable currency fluctuations along with increasing investments in international expansions and data centers are major concerns for the company.
(You can read the full research report on salesforce here >>>)
Shares of Morgan Stanley have gained +13.7% in the last six months against the Zacks Investment Banking industry's gain of +2.8%. The Zacks analyst believes that the company's financials are likely to benefit from its focus on less capital-market dependent operations and opportunistic buyouts.
Robust capital deployment activities indicate a solid liquidity position. Uncertainty about the performance of the capital markets remains a major concern for Morgan Stanley. Persistently increasing expenses are likely to hurt the bottom line to an extent in the near term.
(You can read the full research report on Morgan Stanley here >>>)
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Citigroup and Applied Materials.
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Inherent in any investment is the potential for loss. This material is being provided for informational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a security. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. It should not be assumed that any investments in securities, companies, sectors or markets identified and described were or will be profitable. All information is current as of the date of herein and is subject to change without notice. Any views or opinions expressed may not reflect those of the firm as a whole. Zacks Investment Research does not engage in investment banking, market making or asset management activities of any securities. These returns are from hypothetical portfolios consisting of stocks with Zacks Rank = 1 that were rebalanced monthly with zero transaction costs. These are not the returns of actual portfolios of stocks. The S&P 500 is an unmanaged index. Visit https://www.zacks.com/performance for information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.