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Barclays analyst Brendon Lynch downgraded shares of cellphone tower REIT and S&P 500 component company Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI) to equalweight with a $101 price target this morning.
“Both AMT and CCI remain on solid footing in their lawsuits against EchoStar,” notes the analyst, but “the larger challenge remains the ability to collect. … EchoStar may have already transferred the spectrum in question to a subsidiary that is protected by the statute of limitations on attempts to claw back value by the TowerCos. Also, EchoStar may have other financial obligations, including intra-company loans, that may have a higher claim on available cash then tower leases, to the extent there is cash available.”
Crown Castle is suing EchoStar over the latter’s attempt to terminate long-term cell-tower and infrastructure leases after EchoStar’s sales of much of its wireless spectrum. Lynch believes although Crown Castle’s case is strong, it may ultimately recover as little as 50% of the money it is owed.
Crown Castle stock is down more than 1% premarket. EchoStar stock is down nearly 3%.
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The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) gained 3% over the final, holiday-shortened, three-and-a-half-day-long trading week last week, but as December trading opens on Monday the momentum seems spent. Shares of the ETF look set to open down 0.7%, as Wall Street adopts a “risk-off” posture — and Bitcoin is falling 6% to less than $86,000.
Rival cryptocurrencies Ethereum and Solana are doing even worse, both down more than 7% at $2,807.86 and $126.29, respectively. People’s Bank of China warned Saturday against unspecified illegal activities involving digital currencies, spooking investors in the asset class.
CNBC blames this news, as well as investors who used leverage to buy crypto on its way up — and now have to sell even more to cover their super-sized losses on the way down — for the magnitude of the slide.
One rare bit of good news this morning: Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS), which makes the software that controls the equipment that manufactures semiconductor equipment, is gaining more than 7% after Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) announced this morning it has bought $2 billion-worth of Synopsys stock. The companies say they are partnering to develop “next-generation intelligent systems” integrating “electronics and physics, accelerated by AI capabilities and compute.”
Analyst calls
And handful of analysts are upgrading equities this post-Thanksgiving Day week, but there’s not a lot of detail yet on why:
- HSBC analyst Kim Fustier upgraded Chevron (NYSE: CVX) to buy with a $169 price target.
- Arete analyst David Mak upgraded Take-Two Interactive (Nasdaq: TTWO) to buy with a $284 price target.
- Northcoast Research analyst Keith Housum upgraded Motorola Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MSI) buy with a $450 price target.
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