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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Chevron, Visa, Wells Fargo, Toyota and Expedia
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – May 3, 2018 – 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 Chevron (CVX - Free Report) , Visa (V - Free Report) , Wells Fargo (WFC - Free Report) , Toyota (TM - Free Report) and Expedia (EXPE - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Research Reports for Chevron, Visa and Wells Fargo
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 Chevron, Visa and Wells Fargo. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
Chevron’s shares have risen +8.5% in the past six months, outperforming the Zacks Integrated Oil industry's +6.1% increase, while larger rival ExxonMobil has seen its scrip go down -7.5% over the same time period. The supermajor has been a beneficiary of the recovery in commodity prices, which helped its upstream unit profits to double from a year ago.
Chevron’s high-quality Permian acreage continues to drive production. Importantly, cash flow from operations, at $5 billion, was more than $1 billion higher than a year ago.
However, the Zacks analyst remains worried over drop in its downstream segment earnings on weaker margins, while exposure to production in the vulnerable and violence-prone regions in Nigeria poses additional risk. Hence, investors should wait for a better entry point before buying shares in Chevron.
Shares of Visa have outperformed the Zacks Financial Transaction Services industry over the last year (+37.9% vs. +33.4%). Visa’s second-quarter fiscal 2018 earnings beat expectations by 9.9% and was up 30% year over year. Results were driven by strong growth in payments volume, cross-border volume and processed transactions as a strong economy and a positive consumer sentiment led to higher spending.
Numerous strategic acquisitions and alliances, technology upgrades and effective marketing have paved the way for its long-term growth and consistent revenue improvement. The Zacks analyst thinks Visa is well poised to gain from growing electronic payment processing and strong international business.
A solid balance sheet ensures effective capital deployment. The stock has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for current-year earnings being revised 1.6% upward over the last seven days. Nevertheless, high client incentives might put pressure on revenues.
Wells Fargo’s shares have underperformed the Zacks Major Banks industry over the last six months (-6.7% vs. +1.9%). However, the company possesses a decent earnings surprise history, having beaten the expectations in two of the trailing four quarters.
The company’s first-quarter 2018 earnings reflected lower provisions and higher interest income, partly offset by elevated interest expense and lower mortgage revenues. Recently, the bank entered into a consent order with OCC and CFPB for paying $1 billion as civil penalty related to auto-loan issues.
Also, Wells Fargo was slapped with new sanctions, including a cap on the assets position by the Federal Reserve. Though continued growth in loans and deposits, lower tax rate and expansions will likely support the bank’s growth profile, the crisis related to the revelation of illegally opening millions of illegal accounts in 2016 will take some time to alleviate.
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Toyota and Expedia.
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Zacks Equity Research provides the best of quantitative and qualitative analysis to help investors know what stocks to buy and which to sell for the long-term.
Continuous coverage is provided for a universe of 1,150 publicly traded stocks. Our analysts are organized by industry which gives them keen insights to developments that affect company profits and stock performance. Recommendations and target prices are six-month time horizons.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Chevron, Visa, Wells Fargo, Toyota and Expedia
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – May 3, 2018 – 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 Chevron (CVX - Free Report) , Visa (V - Free Report) , Wells Fargo (WFC - Free Report) , Toyota (TM - Free Report) and Expedia (EXPE - Free Report) .
Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Get #1Stock of the Day pick for free.
Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Research Reports for Chevron, Visa and Wells Fargo
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 Chevron, Visa and Wells Fargo. 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 >>>
Chevron’s shares have risen +8.5% in the past six months, outperforming the Zacks Integrated Oil industry's +6.1% increase, while larger rival ExxonMobil has seen its scrip go down -7.5% over the same time period. The supermajor has been a beneficiary of the recovery in commodity prices, which helped its upstream unit profits to double from a year ago.
Chevron’s high-quality Permian acreage continues to drive production. Importantly, cash flow from operations, at $5 billion, was more than $1 billion higher than a year ago.
However, the Zacks analyst remains worried over drop in its downstream segment earnings on weaker margins, while exposure to production in the vulnerable and violence-prone regions in Nigeria poses additional risk. Hence, investors should wait for a better entry point before buying shares in Chevron.
(You can read the full research report on Chevron here >>>).
Shares of Visa have outperformed the Zacks Financial Transaction Services industry over the last year (+37.9% vs. +33.4%). Visa’s second-quarter fiscal 2018 earnings beat expectations by 9.9% and was up 30% year over year. Results were driven by strong growth in payments volume, cross-border volume and processed transactions as a strong economy and a positive consumer sentiment led to higher spending.
Numerous strategic acquisitions and alliances, technology upgrades and effective marketing have paved the way for its long-term growth and consistent revenue improvement. The Zacks analyst thinks Visa is well poised to gain from growing electronic payment processing and strong international business.
A solid balance sheet ensures effective capital deployment. The stock has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for current-year earnings being revised 1.6% upward over the last seven days. Nevertheless, high client incentives might put pressure on revenues.
(You can read the full research report on Visa here >>>).
Wells Fargo’s shares have underperformed the Zacks Major Banks industry over the last six months (-6.7% vs. +1.9%). However, the company possesses a decent earnings surprise history, having beaten the expectations in two of the trailing four quarters.
The company’s first-quarter 2018 earnings reflected lower provisions and higher interest income, partly offset by elevated interest expense and lower mortgage revenues. Recently, the bank entered into a consent order with OCC and CFPB for paying $1 billion as civil penalty related to auto-loan issues.
Also, Wells Fargo was slapped with new sanctions, including a cap on the assets position by the Federal Reserve. Though continued growth in loans and deposits, lower tax rate and expansions will likely support the bank’s growth profile, the crisis related to the revelation of illegally opening millions of illegal accounts in 2016 will take some time to alleviate.
(You can read the full research report on Wells Fargo here >>>).
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Toyota and Expedia.
Looking for Stocks with Skyrocketing Upside?
Zacks has just released a Special Report on the booming investment opportunities of legal marijuana.
Ignited by new referendums and legislation, this industry is expected to blast from an already robust $6.7 billion to $20.2 billion in 2021. Early investors stand to make a killing, but you have to be ready to act and know just where to look.
See the pot trades we're targeting>>
Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Get #1 Stock of the Day pick for free.
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Zacks Equity Research provides the best of quantitative and qualitative analysis to help investors know what stocks to buy and which to sell for the long-term.
Continuous coverage is provided for a universe of 1,150 publicly traded stocks. Our analysts are organized by industry which gives them keen insights to developments that affect company profits and stock performance. Recommendations and target prices are six-month time horizons.
Strong Stocks that Should Be in the News
Many are little publicized and fly under the Wall Street radar. They're virtually unknown to the general public. Yet today's 220 Zacks Rank #1 "Strong Buys" were generated by the stock-picking system that has nearly tripled the market from 1988 through 2015. Its average gain has been a stellar +26% per year.See these high-potential stocks free >>.
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