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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Pfizer, Intel, HCA Healthcare, Xilinx and Cummins
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – May 6, 2019 – 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: Pfizer (PFE - Free Report) , Intel (INTC - Free Report) , HCA Healthcare (HCA - Free Report) , Xilinx and Cummins (CMI - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Reports for Pfizer, Intel and HCA Healthcare
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 Pfizer, Intel and HCA Healthcare. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
Pfizer’s shares have underperformed the Zacks Large-Cap Pharmaceuticals industry in the past six months (-5.7% vs. -1%). Pfizer beat estimates for earnings and sales in the first quarter. Pfizer expects continued strong growth of key product franchises, including Ibrance, Eliquis, and Xeljanz in 2019.
However, The Zacks analyst thinks loss of exclusivity on key drugs in the United States, mainly Lyrica and currency headwinds will likely significantly hurt 2019 sales. Other top-line headwinds are weak sales in the sterile injectables portfolio, pricing pressure and rising competition.
To offset the threat of generic competition, Pfizer is strengthening its pipeline as well as oncology portfolio. Pfizer looks well positioned to deliver several potential new breakthrough innovative medicines in the next five years, which can drive long-term growth. Biosimilars are also expected to contribute to growth in 2019.
Shares of Intel have outperformed the Zacks General Semiconductor industry in the past year, losing -4.3% vs. a decline of -7.4%. Intel reported stellar first-quarter results. Rising demand witnessed in company’s higher performance products, both in data center and client domains acted as a catalyst.
The Zacks analyst thinks the company is benefiting from robust performance of the DCG, IoT Group, NVM Solutions and PSG. The company’s strategy of expanding TAM beyond CPU to adjacent product lines like silicon photonics, fabric, network ASICs, and 3D XPoint memory is bearing fruit. However, a declining trend in PC shipments is detrimental to business prospects of Intel, which continues to depend substantially on PC sales.
Further, the company provided a tepid forthcoming outlook. Weaknesses in demand from China, softness in NAND flash pricing trends, delay in transition to 10-nm process are other concerns. Moreover, intensifying competition remains a headwind.
Buy-Ranked HCA Healthcare’s shares have outperformed the Zacks Hospital industry in the past year, gaining +28.7% vs. +13.1%. HCA Healthcare’s first-quarter 2019 beat expectations and increased year over year on the back of higher admissions and revenues.
The Zacks analyst thinks its top line has been growing over the last several quarters on higher admissions, volume growth, etc. Multiple acquisitions helped the company gain a strong foothold in the industry, fueling its inorganic growth.
A strong balance sheet and free cash flow are other positives for the company. However, high operating expenses are persistently weighing on its margins. The company is expected to witness a rise in costs due to its constant growth-related investments. Its high leverage is another concern.
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Xilinx and Cummins.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Pfizer, Intel, HCA Healthcare, Xilinx and Cummins
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – May 6, 2019 – 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: Pfizer (PFE - Free Report) , Intel (INTC - Free Report) , HCA Healthcare (HCA - Free Report) , Xilinx and Cummins (CMI - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Stock Reports for Pfizer, Intel and HCA Healthcare
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 Pfizer, Intel and HCA Healthcare. 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 >>>
Pfizer’s shares have underperformed the Zacks Large-Cap Pharmaceuticals industry in the past six months (-5.7% vs. -1%). Pfizer beat estimates for earnings and sales in the first quarter. Pfizer expects continued strong growth of key product franchises, including Ibrance, Eliquis, and Xeljanz in 2019.
However, The Zacks analyst thinks loss of exclusivity on key drugs in the United States, mainly Lyrica and currency headwinds will likely significantly hurt 2019 sales. Other top-line headwinds are weak sales in the sterile injectables portfolio, pricing pressure and rising competition.
To offset the threat of generic competition, Pfizer is strengthening its pipeline as well as oncology portfolio. Pfizer looks well positioned to deliver several potential new breakthrough innovative medicines in the next five years, which can drive long-term growth. Biosimilars are also expected to contribute to growth in 2019.
Shares of Intel have outperformed the Zacks General Semiconductor industry in the past year, losing -4.3% vs. a decline of -7.4%. Intel reported stellar first-quarter results. Rising demand witnessed in company’s higher performance products, both in data center and client domains acted as a catalyst.
The Zacks analyst thinks the company is benefiting from robust performance of the DCG, IoT Group, NVM Solutions and PSG. The company’s strategy of expanding TAM beyond CPU to adjacent product lines like silicon photonics, fabric, network ASICs, and 3D XPoint memory is bearing fruit. However, a declining trend in PC shipments is detrimental to business prospects of Intel, which continues to depend substantially on PC sales.
Further, the company provided a tepid forthcoming outlook. Weaknesses in demand from China, softness in NAND flash pricing trends, delay in transition to 10-nm process are other concerns. Moreover, intensifying competition remains a headwind.
Buy-Ranked HCA Healthcare’s shares have outperformed the Zacks Hospital industry in the past year, gaining +28.7% vs. +13.1%. HCA Healthcare’s first-quarter 2019 beat expectations and increased year over year on the back of higher admissions and revenues.
The Zacks analyst thinks its top line has been growing over the last several quarters on higher admissions, volume growth, etc. Multiple acquisitions helped the company gain a strong foothold in the industry, fueling its inorganic growth.
A strong balance sheet and free cash flow are other positives for the company. However, high operating expenses are persistently weighing on its margins. The company is expected to witness a rise in costs due to its constant growth-related investments. Its high leverage is another concern.
Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include Xilinx and Cummins.
Today's Best Stocks from Zacks
Would you like to see the updated picks from our best market-beating strategies? From 2017 through 2018, while the S&P 500 gained +15.8%, five of our screens returned +38.0%, +61.3%, +61.6%, +68.1%, and +98.3%.
This outperformance has not just been a recent phenomenon. From 2000 – 2018, while the S&P averaged +4.8% per year, our top strategies averaged up to +56.2% per year.
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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 http://www.zacks.com/performance for information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.