Filed under: Baxter Intl (BAX), Analyst initiations

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Amag Pharmaceuticals, Corn Products and Alpharma were today’s noteworthy initiations:

• Baird initiated Amag Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMAG) with an Outperform rating and believes concerns regarding ferumoxytol approvability are misplaced.
• JP Morgan assumed coverage of Corn Products (NYSE: CPO) with an Overweight rating and points to the company’s growth in emerging markets and improved business economics in its core U.S. market.
• RBC Capital is positive on Alpharma’s (NYSE: ALO) Flector opportunity in the U.S. topical NSAID market. The firm started shares with an Outperform rating and $28 target.

OTHER INITIATIONS:

• Merrill resumed coverage of Baxter (NYSE: BAX) with a Buy rating.
• Goldman initiated Teradyne (NYSE: TER) with a Neutral rating and $11 target.
• Allianz AG (NYSE: AZ) was initiated with a Buy rating at Societe Generale.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Share This

This entry was posted on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 5:16 pm and is filed under Stocks Money News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.