Report by Mill Street Research

Mill Street has developed an "Earnings Screen Score" ranking methodology that draws on selected inputs from their MAER (Monitor of Analysts’ Earnings Revisions) stock database to identify companies which have strong near-term fundamental momentum going into an earnings report. Mill Street’s research indicates that companies scoring highly in their ranking have a much higher chance of near-term improvements in analyst expectations than those that score poorly. Stocks most likely to produce positive near-term analyst estimate activity in the next couple of weeks include Franklin Resources, Humana, Seagate and Valero. Bottom ranked stocks include Boston Scientific, EchoStar, Intercontinental Exchange and S&P Global. Click here to access the full report.

Financials

Report by 2Xideas

2Xideas publishes deep-dive research on compounding stocks that have the potential to double within 5-7 years. Their latest report focuses on ICE, which has the following key opportunities to drive continued growth and operating leverage: 1) To win share of institutional client workflows as fully automated trading proliferates. 2) Drive growth across its energy franchise with products such as Environmental Futures or Dutch TTF Natural Gas contracts, while continuing to innovate around new products such as carbon allowance credits. 3) Drive a digital‑to‑analog shift in the mortgage origination process, consolidating the mortgage value chain and building marketable mortgage trading and data products in the process. In aggregate, 2Xideas forecasts a 5.3% revenue CAGR and 11.5% adjusted EPS CAGR through 2030E on an NTM P/E of 20x.

Report by CTFN

CTFN provides in-depth news on mergers, event-driven situations and major corporate developments. The news service, in conjunction with their PressRisk platform, delivers content and resources that increase the value and efficiency of their readers’ research efforts. Recent coverage includes:

Activision - The state of play meeting with the EC for Microsoft’s acquisition of ATVI was 21st Oct. MSFT can offer Phase I remedies by 28th Oct.
Black Knight - The FTC sought a declaration from a vendor in the loan origination space as part of its review of Intercontinental Exchange’s purchase of BKI.
VMware - Market power in virtualisation software likely to take centre stage in EC’s examination of Broadcom merger.

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