Last year, Ms. Freedman also launched coverage of Michael Kors with an outperform rating.
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Oddly enough, Rasgon actually maintains an Outperform rating on AMD shares.
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William Blair analyst Jim Breen begins coverage with an Outperform rating.
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But one AutoNation watcher that has broken ranks with the uninspired analysts is Zacks Investment Research, which upgraded the stock to an outperform rating on Aug. 24, 2012, from neutral.
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He keeps an Outperform rating on the shares.
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Said another way: fundamental analysis of publicly available information cannot uncover opportunities that enable an active investor to consistently outperform an index fund.
Anderson is still skeptical--he has an "underperform" rating on Bristol-Myers shares, and an "outperform" on Merck.
Bernstein recently upgraded Bristol-Myers to an "outperform, " arguing that the market is ignoring one of the industry's better drug pipelines.
"We would be buyers of ValueClick ahead of its earnings report, " said Kessler, who maintained an "outperform" rating on the stock.
Howard Mason, an analyst with Sanford Bernstein, who has an "outperform" rating on Capital One, says there is still opportunity for Capital One to gain market share.
Cowen and Company analyst Tom Watts maintained an "outperform" rating on Sprint Nextel after hearing the company will be jointly bidding with various cable companies in the Federal Communications Commission's high-stakes auction for wireless spectrum June 29.
The strategy depends on an ability to outperform the market consistently, which many economists regard as virtually impossible.
Start with fees active funds with the lowest expense ratios have the lowest hurdle to clear to outperform an index.
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Style investing is an active management strategy whereby an investor overweighs their portfolio to growth or value stocks in an attempt to outperform the broad market.
But if a company keeps growing free cash flow and uses part of the cash to keep shrinking the float, why would not such a company outperform an equivalent dividend payer?
That strategy, described more fully in an October 4 article, has shown an ability to outperform the market when applied to blue-chip companies that are three or fewer weeks shy of estimated dates for their next scheduled earnings releases.
Other precious metals will need improved risk sentiment or an improving economy to outperform gold, she said.
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There is thus never a situation in which an authoritarian regime would outperform a democratic one or a situation in which citizens of a given country would have a rational preference for a less democratic government.
Through their research, Malkiel and Fama have given credence to the belief that the history of stock-price movements contains no useful information that would enable an investor to consistently outperform a buy-and-hold strategy in managing a portfolio.
Enrolling such pupils could boost overall attainment: some research finds that an undergraduate from a lacklustre school will outperform someone with the same entry grades from an outstanding school, although Geoff Parks of the University of Cambridge says it is not so there.
Who would have thought that the stock of an independent movie studio would outperform industry titans like The Walt Disney Co.
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They bought silver on an expectation that this metal would outperform gold.
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"Our goal is to construct portfolios that have the potential to outperform the market over an investment time horizon of three to five years without assuming undue risk, " writes Miller.
He believes in responsiveness in entertainment, an area where online content can outperform TV, and, with that in mind, hopes that the programming decisions on the network will be a collaborative effort between talent, the EQAL production team and the audience.
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Finally, he ran an experiment that assumed professional managers can outperform index funds.
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Aberdeen continued to outperform the rest of Scotland with an increase in occupancy of 2% and a 6.7% rise in revenue.
In December, the privately held company filed a regulatory application to launch its first actively managed ETFs that seek to outperform the market, rather than match an index.
Despite all the concerns, Merrill Ross, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey kept her outperform rating on the company, adding that there is no potential for write-downs from the announcement.
The airline industry in the United States is looking up, says Michael Linenberg of Deutsche Bank, who has initiated coverage with a favorable view, given that airline stocks typically outperform the market as they benefit disproportionately from an improving economy because of their significant operating leverage.
Or perhaps you believe that money managers have an edge over the market and can select individual securities that outperform indexes.
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