SITE Centers ( SITC ) was trading lower as Piper Sandler downgraded the stock, citing that it is "trading essentially at our liquidation value". The investment bank had updated its net asset value estimate on the stock to $6.40. Shares were 8.52% down to $6.18 during afternoon trading on Friday. "While there is potential for upside based on how the final asset sales go, given the demand for retail...
SITE Centers ( SITC ) was trading lower as Piper Sandler downgraded the stock, citing that it is "trading essentially at our liquidation value". The investment bank had updated its net asset value estimate on the stock to $6.40. Shares were 8.52% down to $6.18 during afternoon trading on Friday. "While there is potential for upside based on how the final asset sales go, given the demand for retail, we don't see enough upside to warrant maintaining the OW," said analysts Alexander Goldfarb and Connor Mitchell, downgrading the stock to Neutral from Overweight. The new target price is $6.50, compared to $8.00 prior. Piper Sandler reduced its 2026 FFO estimate for SITE Centers by $0.08 to -$0.08, and cut the 2027 estimate by $0.16 to -$0.14. The consensus stands at $0.09 and -$0.11, respectively. The rating aligns with the average Wall Street analysts rating of Hold. Seeking Alpha's Quant Rating system sees the stock as Strong Sell. More on SITE Centers SITE Centers Q4 Earnings Preview Small-Cap sell signals: 10 stocks with longest run in bearish Quant ratings Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on SITE Centers Historical earnings data for SITE Centers Financial information for SITE Centers
I don't know about you, but I like to hold my stocks for a long time. If you clicked on this headline I imagine you're the same way. So, if you're also a fan of slower-paced investing, read on to learn about three of the best-looking stocks to buy and hold for the next decade or longer. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
I don't know about you, but I like to hold my stocks for a long time. If you clicked on this headline I imagine you're the same way. So, if you're also a fan of slower-paced investing, read on to learn about three of the best-looking stocks to buy and hold for the next decade or longer. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Hi everyone. Today we’re figuring out why Sony closed Bluepoint Games, but first... This week’s top gaming news: Check out our piece about the failure of Highguard Gamers are infuriated by AI even as developers pursue it New Pokemon games are coming next year RIP Bluepoint Last week, Sony Group Corp. announced the closure of Bluepoint Games, the Austin-based subsidiary behind acclaimed remakes lik...
Hi everyone. Today we’re figuring out why Sony closed Bluepoint Games, but first... This week’s top gaming news: Check out our piece about the failure of Highguard Gamers are infuriated by AI even as developers pursue it New Pokemon games are coming next year RIP Bluepoint Last week, Sony Group Corp. announced the closure of Bluepoint Games, the Austin-based subsidiary behind acclaimed remakes like Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus . Around 70 people will lose their jobs, although Sony is also giving them opportunities to apply for positions at other studios within the organization. The decision came just five years after Sony purchased Bluepoint, a period during which the studio failed to release a game of its own. How did Sony executive Hermen Hulst go from writing in 2021 that Bluepoint’s “vast expertise in world building and character creation will be a huge plus for future PlayStation Studios properties” to shutting the studio down? The answer is a little complicated. (Sony declined to comment beyond the statement it sent last week .) Following the purchase, Bluepoint continued its work helping Sony’s Santa Monica Studio with the development of God of War Ragnarok , released in 2022. After that, the newly acquired PlayStation studio had ambitions to make its own game rather than co-developing or remaking games made by other companies. At the time, Sony was all-in on “live-service” games — games designed for continual monetization after launch. One of those games would be Bluepoint’s first original title under PlayStation: a live-service game in the God of War franchise, which the organization hoped could support several sequels and spinoffs, like its own smaller version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bluepoint began working on a game in which the character Atreus would fall into Hades, according to people familiar with the project. A loose idea was for players to control different versions or aspects of Atreus as they battled through Greek hell, and t...
On "Bloomberg Real Yield" Meghan Graper, the global of head of debt capital markets at Barclays, and Maureen O'Connor, the global head of high-grade debt syndicate at Wells Fargo, join Matt Miller and Emily Graffeo. They discuss credit concerns, issuance, and the debt spending related to AI. (Source: Bloomberg)
On "Bloomberg Real Yield" Meghan Graper, the global of head of debt capital markets at Barclays, and Maureen O'Connor, the global head of high-grade debt syndicate at Wells Fargo, join Matt Miller and Emily Graffeo. They discuss credit concerns, issuance, and the debt spending related to AI. (Source: Bloomberg)
txking Hasbro ( HAS ) is reportedly seeking to recover tariffs that were paid to the U.S. government under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act following last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. According to Reuters, the toymaker is the latest in a wave of companies trying to recover the billions of dollars that were collected between April 2025 and February 2026. Like many U.S. compani...
txking Hasbro ( HAS ) is reportedly seeking to recover tariffs that were paid to the U.S. government under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act following last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. According to Reuters, the toymaker is the latest in a wave of companies trying to recover the billions of dollars that were collected between April 2025 and February 2026. Like many U.S. companies dependent on overseas production, Hasbro ( HAS ) faced tariffs on average of 25%, citing $60M in tariff costs to the company’s supply chain. More on Hasbro Hasbro, Inc. (HAS) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Hasbro, Inc. 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Hasbro: MTG Monetization Has Worked Well, For Now Hasbro is winning the toy war this year as Mattel spirals lower Toy story: Mattel slides after sluggish results for the holiday quarter
OpenAI's Sam Altman says he shares the "red lines" set by rival Anthropic restricting how the military uses AI models, amid Anthropic's escalating feud with the Pentagon. (Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
OpenAI's Sam Altman says he shares the "red lines" set by rival Anthropic restricting how the military uses AI models, amid Anthropic's escalating feud with the Pentagon. (Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Attorney general Pam Bondi says 39 people now charged over January protest and warns ‘more to come’ Federal authorities have arrested more people on Friday for their alleged involvement in a protest at a church in Minnesota in January, following earlier arrests of organizers and journalists that were demonstrating amid sweeping, and often violent, immigration enforcement efforts in the state. Atto...
Attorney general Pam Bondi says 39 people now charged over January protest and warns ‘more to come’ Federal authorities have arrested more people on Friday for their alleged involvement in a protest at a church in Minnesota in January, following earlier arrests of organizers and journalists that were demonstrating amid sweeping, and often violent, immigration enforcement efforts in the state. Attorney general Pam Bondi said the justice department unsealed an indictment that charged 30 more people for the demonstration. Of those charged, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, Bondi said, with “more to come”. The latest arrests bring the total number of people charged to 39. Continue reading...
For nearly two decades, Morgan Stanley portfolio manager Andrew Szczurowski has been honing his fixed-income investing strategy. These days, he's still finding attractive investments in the market, but admits some digging needs to be done to separate the winners from the losers. As a portfolio manager on the Eaton Vance Strategic Income Fund , he looks for opportunities across a broad range of ass...
For nearly two decades, Morgan Stanley portfolio manager Andrew Szczurowski has been honing his fixed-income investing strategy. These days, he's still finding attractive investments in the market, but admits some digging needs to be done to separate the winners from the losers. As a portfolio manager on the Eaton Vance Strategic Income Fund , he looks for opportunities across a broad range of assets, including those that have been typically underrepresented. Eaton Vance was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 2021. Szczurowski called the fund a "multi-sector, go anywhere strategy" that has underlying assets with a weighted average of investment grade. However, it can also take a bit more risk, he said. ETSIX 1Y mountain Eaton Vance Strategic Income Fund one-year performance His strategy has paid off, with the fund earning a five star rating from Morningstar . Its A share class (ETSIX), available to retail investors, outperformed the category average return by 2.2 percentage points annualized over a 10-year year period, according to Morningstar. ETSIX has a 6.15% subsidized 30-day SEC yield, a net expense ratio of 1.46% and a net adjusted expense ratio of 1.02%. Its hefty fees land it in the second-highest quintile among peers, Morningstar said. A barbell approach The fund managers take a bit of a barbell approach to portfolio construction, with high quality assets on one side and riskier investments on the other, Szczurowski said. The team includes two other portfolio managers, each with differing areas of expertise. Szczurowski focuses on securitized products since he is also the co-head of Morgan Stanley Investment Management's mortgage and securitized investment team. ETSIX's highest allocation is in agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), about 34% of the portfolio as of Jan. 31. It also has exposure to emerging market bonds, high yield bonds and floating-rate loans. Finding winners The macroeconomic environment for fixed income is still "OK," but it is getting late...
Alberto Marrupe Gutierrez/iStock via Getty Images I last covered LeMaitre Vascular ( NASDAQ: LMAT ) at $81 in June 2025 , reiterating my Buy rating. Eight months later, shares are up about 35%, more than double that of the broader market. The stock jumped ~20% alone on the recent Q4 beat and raise, with 2026 guidance coming in 13% above Wall Street’s consensus. Pricing power, operating leverage, a...
Alberto Marrupe Gutierrez/iStock via Getty Images I last covered LeMaitre Vascular ( NASDAQ: LMAT ) at $81 in June 2025 , reiterating my Buy rating. Eight months later, shares are up about 35%, more than double that of the broader market. The stock jumped ~20% alone on the recent Q4 beat and raise, with 2026 guidance coming in 13% above Wall Street’s consensus. Pricing power, operating leverage, and international growth were all contributors. LMAT has been one of the top performers in my own portfolio over this period. Is it time to trim? Is there still near-term upside for those looking to add shares? Having digested the 2025 results, my short answer is that the business has earned its high valuation multiples. A key catalyst is Artegraft – the international rollout is changing the math. But a more important takeaway is that LMAT’s overall earnings power appears to have stepped higher. This is structural rather than cyclical. Q4 and Full-Year 2025: Another Clean Sheet The latest quarterly report exceeded expectations in almost every way. Sales were up 16% YoY with organic growth at 15%. All segments gained, led by grafts (27%), valvulotomes (20%), and carotid shunts (18%). Growth was also broad-based geographically, with EMEA up 29%, APAC 20%, and the Americas 10%. Profitability metrics were also outstanding across the board. Organic growth in Q4 broke down to about 9% price and 6% unit growth, meaning the recent margin expansion isn’t just due to volume. Most important is that this has been a pattern. For several years LMAT has been growing sales by double digits while managing gross margins of 60-70%. Seeking Alpha (LMAT Financials - Gross Profit) The FY 2025 results included beats on revenue and EPS. The $2.91 (midpoint) guidance for 2026 represents an 11.5% increase. The Artegraft Surprise For me, the most important news in this report wasn’t the headline figures. It was buried in the earnings call Q&A . Management said the addressable market for Artegraft outs...
Volatility and unusual structure at Stamford Bridge leave club’s young manager with a big test to rebuild like his rival has at Arsenal Arsenal’s journey under Mikel Arteta has long been a reference point for Chelsea’s owners. It is part of the club’s shift towards youth and potential after the Roman Abramovich era. Chelsea have built with a long-term view and, seeing how Arteta has reversed Arsen...
Volatility and unusual structure at Stamford Bridge leave club’s young manager with a big test to rebuild like his rival has at Arsenal Arsenal’s journey under Mikel Arteta has long been a reference point for Chelsea’s owners. It is part of the club’s shift towards youth and potential after the Roman Abramovich era. Chelsea have built with a long-term view and, seeing how Arteta has reversed Arsenal’s decline since his appointment as manager in December 2019, have been keen to find a young coach capable of becoming a similarly galvanising force at Stamford Bridge. It is not an easy task. Chelsea briefly thought they had their rising star when they hired Graham Potter in September 2022, only for his reign to end after seven months. Now there is hope that Liam Rosenior can become Chelsea’s answer to Arteta. Rosenior is young, confident, talented and a little unconventional in the way he presents himself. It is early days but the 41-year-old has made an encouraging start, winning eight of his first 12 games, and has transmitted enough authority to keep jibes about his inexperience at bay so far. Continue reading...
Willie B. Thomas/DigitalVision via Getty Images Assessing Willdan's Q4 2025 Report As I'm writing these lines, the quotes of Willdan Group, Inc. ( WLDN ) stock are falling by almost 22% amid the firm's Q4 2025 results release. All the gains we've seen in it since early December 2025 have now gone: Seeking Alpha, my previous article on WLDN At first glance, I see little reason for panicking. Yes, t...
Willie B. Thomas/DigitalVision via Getty Images Assessing Willdan's Q4 2025 Report As I'm writing these lines, the quotes of Willdan Group, Inc. ( WLDN ) stock are falling by almost 22% amid the firm's Q4 2025 results release. All the gains we've seen in it since early December 2025 have now gone: Seeking Alpha, my previous article on WLDN At first glance, I see little reason for panicking. Yes, the guidance seems quite weak because of the sunsetting tax incentives, but the business is still growing rapidly (and it’s not just about past momentum). The data‑center‑related revenue streams should help WLDN sustain its leading niche position, and its balance sheet , which only improved in Q4, promises better flexibility ahead as WLDN enters its next phase of strategic growth. I'd consider buying this dip, so I remain bullish on Willdan in the medium term - especially after its forward valuation reset on this post‑earnings dip. Why Do I Think So? Willdan, as analysts usually write in such cases, showed mixed Q4 results because it beat on the bottom line (by 105%, actually), but at the same time, it failed to beat on the top line, missing the consensus estimates by 0.47%. The past beats/misses dynamics show that it's always been OK for Willdan to beat on EPS and miss on revenues in the same quarter, so it's not the real reason for the stock's post-earnings 22% meltdown. What really moved WLDN so much lower was likely the valuation reset based on management’s outlook for 2026. The thing is that the management set the FY2026 EPS guidance range at $4.50-4.70, while for the whole FY2025, Willdan has managed to make $4.89 (+101% YoY to FY2024, by the way). WLDN's press release The effective YoY decline in FY2026 EPS should be ~5.9% if we take the midpoint of the updated guidance. For a growth stock that traded at above 40x forward earnings, it's no surprise that the stock reacted so negatively. The main reason why the management decided to guide so low lies in the normalizatio...