| Company Name | Exchange | Ticker | Last Price | Total Analyst Coverage |
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Analyst Name | Rating Company | Target Price |
Upside/ Downside (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Nickel Corp | TSX | RNX | 0.66 | 62.3 | Initiate with speculative buy | Mike Bandrowski | Clarus Securities | 2.50 | 278.8% |
| Athabasca Minerals Inc | TSXV | ABM | 2.67 | 86.3 | Initiate with buy | Maxim Sytchev | Dundee Securities Corp | 5.50 | 106.0% |
| Augusta Resource Corp | TSX | AZC | 3.40 | 494.6 | Downgrade to sector perform from sector outperform | Tom Meyer | CIBC World Markets | 3.56 | 4.7% |
Clarus Securities initiated coverage on Royal Nickel Corp (TSX: RNX), an exploration-stage mineral resource company primarily focused on the exploration, development, evaluation and acquisition of mineral properties, with a speculative buy assigning a 12-month price target of C$2.50, indicating an upside of 278.8% from current levels.
Coverage on Athabasca Minerals Inc (TSXV: ABM), a Canada-based resource company focused on managing, acquiring, exploring and developing aggregate projects, was initiated with a buy rating at Dundee Securities Corp with a 12-month price target of C$5.50, indicating an upside of 106% from current levels.
CIBC World Markets downgraded Augusta Resource Corp (TSX: AZC), engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of natural mineral resource properties, to sector perform from sector outperform reducing its price target to C$3.56 from C$4.75, indicating an upside of 4.7% from current levels.
| Company Name | Exchange | Ticker | Last Price |
Total Analyst Coverage |
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Analyst Name | Rating Company | Target Price |
Upside/ Downside (%) |
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| Greenhill & Co Inc | NYSE | GHL | 47.77 | 1,350.4 | Upgrade to buy from hold | Jeffery Harte | Sandler O’Neill & Partners, LP | 54.00 | 13.0% |
| NuVasive Inc | NASDAQ | NUVA | 34.82 | 1,622.6 | Upgrade to buy/neutral from neutral/neutral | David H Roman | Goldman Sachs | 43.00 | 23.5% |
| Trinity Industries Inc | NYSE | TRN | 43.25 | 6,700.1 | Upgrade to buy from neutral | Eric Crawford | UBS | 51.00 | 17.9% |
| TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals Corp | NASDAQ | TLOG | 5.10 | 113.6 | Initiate with buy | Do Kim | Nomura | 9.00 | 76.5% |
| Tutor Perini Corp | NYSE | TPC | 30.84 | 1,496.6 | Initiate with buy | Michael Romanelli | Sidoti & Company LLC | 42.00 | 36.2% |
| Kraton Performance Polymers Inc | NYSE | KRA | 22.58 | 740.1 | Downgrade to neutral from outperform | John P McNulty | Credit Suisse | 23.00 | 1.9% |
Sandler O’Neill & Partners, LP upgraded Greenhill & Co Inc (NYSE: GHL), an independent investment bank focused on providing financial advice on mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings and capital raising to corporations, partnerships, institutions and governments, to buy from hold increasing its price target to $54.00 from $53.00, indicating an upside of 13% from current levels.
NuVasive Inc (NASDAQ: NUVA), a medical device company, that focuses on developing minimally disruptive surgical products and procedures for the spine, was upgraded to buy/neutral from neutral/neutral at Goldman Sachs raising its price target to $43.00 from $38.00, indicating an upside of 23.5% from current levels.
UBS upgraded Trinity Industries Inc (NYSE: TRN), a manufacturer of transportation, construction, and industrial products, to buy from neutral increasing its price target to $51.00 from $41.00, indicating an upside of 17.9% from current levels.
Nomura initiated coverage on TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals Corp (NASDAQ: TLOG), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing small molecule peptide-mimetic drugs for the treatment of cancers, with a buy rating assigning a 12-month price target of $9.00, indicating an upside of 76.5% from current levels.
Coverage on Tutor Perini Corp (NYSE: TPC), a construction company offering general contracting, construction management and design-build services, was initiated with a buy rating at Sidoti & Company LLC with a 12-month price target of $42.00, indicating an upside of 36.2% from current levels.
Credit Suisse downgraded Kraton Performance Polymers Inc (NYSE: KRA), a producer of styrenic block copolymers (SBCs) and other engineered polymers, to neutral from outperform lowering its price target to $23.00 from $28.00, indicating an upside of 1.9% from current levels.
