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Wall Street is watching Akamai Technologies closely after a blockbuster deal reshaped the company's growth story earlier this year. Morgan Stanley reaffirmed its “Overweight” rating on Akamai (AKAM) in a July 27 research note shared with me, keeping its price target at $165, roughly 48% above the ...

Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley revealed in a note on Friday that it has upgraded Lenovo to Overweight from Equal-weight and more than doubled its price target to HK$30 from HK$14.20, arguing that AI-driven demand has fundamentally altered the memory market in a way that materially benefits the Chinese technology giant.

SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 on June 12, raised $85.7 billion, and watched the stock run to $225 in its first week of trading before it pulled back to $160. Twenty-five days later, the mandatory quiet period for IPO underwriters expired. The analyst notes started landing at dawn on July 7. By the ...

Southwest Airlines has spent the past year and a half tearing up its own playbook. For a company that built its identity on being different from every other airline, that is a big deal. Now Wall Street is starting to agree the bet is paying off. Morgan Stanley just gave Southwest Airlines (LUV) a ...

American Airlines stock has had a rough few years on Wall Street. Shares slid from the mid-$50s in 2018 to $18.15 at the time of writing. Now, one of the airline's longtime bulls has just given shareholders a reason to pay attention again. Morgan Stanley analyst Ravi Shanker refreshed ...

Wall Street is getting more bullish on Micron Technology, and for good reason. The memory chip giant just wrapped up a quarter that left analysts scrambling to revise their outlooks upward. Morgan Stanley lifted its price target on Micron (MU) stock to $1,200 from $1,050, keeping its ...

Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley upgraded Qualcomm to Equal-weight from Underweight and increased its price target to $231 from $146 in a note to clients on Thursday after the chipmaker's investor day revealed a $5 billion data center revenue forecast for fiscal 2027 that the bank said "clearly pushes them into the AI beneficiaries category."

Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley downgraded Accenture to Equal-weight from Overweight and slashed its price target to $177 from $240, arguing that the anticipated boost to IT services spending from artificial intelligence investments has yet to materialize as enterprises continue to prioritize AI projects over traditional discretionary technology spending.

Carvana (CVNA) closed Thursday, June 11, at $67.82, up less than 1% on the day and roughly 2% over the past week. The stock remains well below its 52-week high of $97.38, and Morgan Stanley just gave investors a catchy number that measures nicely against current price levels. In a research note ...

This phrase gets used loosely in technology investing: "platform shift." And most of the time, it’s actually an incremental change just dressed up in some dramatic language. And trust me when I tell you, what Cloudflare described at its 2026 Investor Day is something different. And even Morgan ...

For weeks after Cerebras Systems (CBRS) went public on May 14, Wall Street analysts largely stayed silent. That changed this week, which started June 7, when the post-IPO quiet period ended, unleashing a wave of coverage from several brokerages, including Morgan Stanley, which issued its first-ever ...

Big tech companies spend enormous sums of money all the time. They buy back stock, pay dividends, make acquisitions, and write checks that would make a defense contractor blush. Most of that spending is legible to investors. You can model it, forecast it, and plug it into a spreadsheet. But there ...

Investing.com -- MongoDB (NASDAQ:MDB) reported first quarter fiscal 2027 results that exceeded analyst expectations and raised its full-year outlook, driven by strong demand for its database platform across enterprise and AI applications.

90-year-old bank Morgan Stanley has revamped the price target for Circle Internet (NYSE: CRCL). The boost from analyst James Faucette was based on higher yield assumptions and a revenue tailwind from the Arc token presale. The revised estimates took into consideration approximately $222 ...

Morgan Stanley is staying bullish on Spotify (SPOT), reiterating an overweight rating and a $590 price target, implying more than 30% upside from current levels. The firm's note, titled "Investor Day Preview: Don't Stop Believing," argues that Spotify has earned significantly more credibility with ...

There are stock calls that feel cautious and measured. And then there are the ones that make you sit up straight. Morgan Stanley just raised its CrowdStrike (CRWD) price target in a note shared with me at TheStreet on May 20. In fact, it's a $100 increase on a stock that has already moved 40% in ...

Investing.com -- IT hardware stocks have rallied sharply in recent months, but Morgan Stanley warned that peak valuations and mounting cyclical risks make the sector vulnerable to negative earnings revisions in the second half of the year.

Morgan Stanley is bullish on Take-Two Interactive (TTWO), as investors now have a clear release date of Nov. 19, 2026, for the company’s long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI release. Specifically, the firm's analysis of past major game launches, as the Globe and Mail reported, shows that game publisher ...

DraftKings investors have been waiting for the company to prove that its online betting business can keep expanding while new growth bets start to take shape. In a Morgan Stanley note shared with TheStreet, analyst Stephen Grambling and his team lowered their DraftKings price target to $39 from ...

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) is losing investor confidence as Morgan Stanley cuts its price target, and the stock has dropped 21% this year. Weaker booking momentum, pricing friction in key itineraries, and commercial execution issues are reshaping the earnings story. Morgan Stanley’s ...

For 25 years, American manufacturing quietly hollowed out. Factory jobs moved overseas. And industrial machinery orders fell nearly 50% in real terms after China joined the World Trade Organization. The logic behind it? Go where labor is cheapest. That logic is now running in reverse. The bank's ...

Morgan Stanley is leaning bullish on semiconductor stocks at a time when the sector is already on fire. The iShares Semiconductor ETF(SOXX) is up 51% this year, and instead of calling a top, the firm just raised price targets for names like IonQ (IONQ), Microchip (MCHP), and ...