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Shares of Twilio Inc (NYSE: TWLO) dipped notably lower towards the end of Tuesday's trading session after reports surfaced that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Pinpoint and its two-way messaging capability could enter the market and compete against Twilio. A Twilio spokesperson responded to the...

Baird downgraded shares of Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), saying near-term execution is largely priced into the stock. This downgrade comes despite the firm having said Albemarle is positioned to capture growth in the lithium market. The firm downgraded shares of Albemarle from Outperform...

Previewing Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST)'s fiscal year fourth-quarter results, Baird said it expects solid results from the company. The company is scheduled to release its results after the market close on Oct. 5. As such, the firm reiterated its Outperform rating and $200...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced through a blog post that it has reached an agreement with HTC Corporation (OTC: HTCKF), which provided for a team of HTC talent who were already working with Google closely on the Pixel smartphone line up, will join the company's hardware...

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) reported Tuesday after the market close second-quarter earnings of 67 cents per share, which included charges amounting to 11 cents per share, compared to $1.11 per share last year. Net sales fell 1.7 percent year over year to $2.9 billion on the back of...

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) shares dipped more than 3 percent Wednesday after the company’s third quarter earnings report disappointed the market. A number of Wall Street analysts weighed in on Adobe following the report. Here’s a rundown of what they had to say....

The bullish case for owning Twilio Inc (NYSE: TWLO)'s stock was well communicated to the Street during Tuesday's London SIGNAL conference targeted at developers. Baird Equity Research analyst William Power maintains an Outperform rating on Twilio's stock with an unchanged $39 price...

In case you have been living under a rock the past couple of years, T-Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) are considering a merger. The latest rumors started this week when a person familiar with the matter told reporters that SoftBank Group is willing to give up its majority...

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) had a disappointing second quarter earnings report, highlighted by a worse-than-expected decline in same-store sales. By Wednesday morning, Bed Bath & Beyond's stock lost 14 percent and was trading near $23 per share. Despite the stock's selloff...

With Baird's bull thesis on Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) failing to materialize, the firm downgraded shares of the company. Specifically, the firm noted that the second-half volume improvement on which it had predicated its upgrade earlier this year hasn't materialized, with volumes...

"Taking a flyer" on McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), as per its recent assertion that it would take a call at the right time, Baird upgraded shares of the company. The firm noted that the company's shares have materially underperformed in the year-to-date period as well as the trailing 12-month...

Pre-open movers U.S. stock futures traded slightly higher in early pre-market trade. The Federal Open Market Committee will begin its two-day policy meeting today. Data on housing starts for August, The current account report for the second quarter and import prices data for August will be released...

After touring the new Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) gigafactory in Reno, Baird analyst Ben Kallo is as bullish as ever on Tesla's stock. In a new note Monday, Kallo described ramping production that he believes will lead to capacity expansion and falling costs in the years ahead. Kallo last visited...

Analysts at Baird Equity Research no longer consider Teladoc Inc (NYSE: TDOC) to be a stock investors should necessarily be buying, although holders of the stock may not want to sell either. The firm's Matthew Gillmor downgrades Teladoc's stock rating from Overweight to Neutral with an...

Good thing it's water-resistant, because the new Ionic smart watch just released by Fitbit Inc (NYSE: FIT) is entering some dangerous depths. Though it has a full complement of feature-rich competitors, perhaps the most formidable is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which is rumored to be offering an...