{"id":583538,"date":"2026-08-13T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/583538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:22:17","slug":"thursdays-big-wall-street-calls-include-nvidia-spacex-amd-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/583538\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8217;s big Wall Street calls include Nvidia, SpaceX, AMD &#038; Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday: HSBC upgrades Keurig Dr Pepper to buy from hold The bank says Keurig Dr Pepper has an &#8220;improving&#8221; coffee outlook. &#8220;Strong trends in refreshment beverages and improving outlook for US Coffee into 2H26 are encouraging.&#8221; Jefferies upgrades Five Below to buy from hold Jefferies sees &#8220;comp strength.&#8221; &#8221; FIVE i s transforming from a trend-driven retailer into a durable growth story with rising productivity, HSD% unit growth, structurally higher comps, and accelerating EPS growth.&#8221; Read more. Cantor Fitzgerald upgrades WhiteFiber to overweight from neutral Cantor says the AI solutions company is at an inflection point. &#8221; WYFI reported 2Q26 results yesterday morning (8\/12). We come away from the print with more confidence in WYFI&#8217;s business inflecting higher.&#8221; JPMorgan resumes Salesforce at overweight JPMorgan reinstated Salesforce and sees plenty of upside. &#8220;Our favorable view is underpinned by an expected acceleration in the core business in 2HF27 from a near-term perspective, and by our view that concerns about disruption to its position with Enterprises from adoption of frontier AI models and competitive dynamics should be limited to a small portion of the business.&#8221; Wolfe upgrades Abbott Labs to outperform from peer perform Wolfe says it sees an attractive setup. &#8221; ABT : 2027 Setup Seems AB(i)T Better \u2013 Upgrade to Outperform.&#8221; Wolfe upgrades Biogen to outperform from peer perform Wolfe says the company has pipeline optionality. &#8220;We&#8217;re upgrading BIIB t o an Outperform driven by a solid P &amp; L growth story &amp; optionality..&#8221; Morgan Stanley initiates Achieve Life Sciences at overweight Morgan Stanley says in its initiation of Achieve Life Sciences that it&#8217;s bullish on the company&#8217;s Cytisinicline drug. &#8220;Cytisinicline is being developed as an oral, TID treatment of nicotine dependence for smoking cessation in adults.&#8221; Citigroup upgrades Sibanye Stillwater to buy from neutral Citi says it likes the precious metals company&#8217;s strategy. &#8221; SSW has traded at a discount to peers over the past 10 years (reflecting M &amp; A risk, weaker cash conversion, and lower RoE). However, the company has shifted its strategy from M &amp; A led growth to organic growth. We view this change as prudent.&#8221; Daiwa reiterates Disney as buy Daiwa says it&#8217;s sticking with Disney shares. &#8220;&#8230;we believe that DIS parks can continue to outperform broader industry trends given DIS&#8217;s intellectual property, pricing power, attractions, resorts, merchandise, &amp; expanding cruise capacity.&#8221; Canaccord initiates Galiano Gold as buy Canaccord says shares of the gold miner have plenty more room to run. &#8221; Galiano is a single asset gold producer that owns a 90% interest in the Asanko Gold Mine (AGM) in Ghana, with the Government of Ghana holding the remaining 10% free-carried interest, where multiple open pits feed a centralized processing plant.&#8221; Goldman Sachs initiates Vail Resorts at sell Goldman says it sees structural headwinds. &#8220;We initiate on Vail Resorts with a Sell rating and a $132, 12-month target price which implies 11% downside vs. +8% upside for the rest of our coverage.&#8221; Wolfe upgrades AbbVie to outperform from peer perform Wolfe says shares are compelling. &#8220;We&#8217;re upgrading ABBV to an Outperform driven by its attractive valuation vs. peers, lack of near-term LoE exposure, and a solid catalyst path forward.&#8221; Benchmark initiates Allegro MicroSystems at buy Benchmark says the integrated circuits and sensor company is in growth mode. &#8220;We are initiating coverage of Allegro Micro (ALGM) with a Buy rating and $60 price target.&#8221; RBC upgrades Silgan Holdings to outperform from sector perform RBC said in its upgrade of Silgan that the consumer goods packaging company has a slew of catalysts ahead. &#8220;1) DSC [dispensing and specialty closures] inflection driven by Dispensing and Fragrance\/Beauty; 2) Strong execution with Pet Food and Weener driving volume recovery; and 3) Favorable capital allocation likely prioritizing M &amp; A, share repo&#8217;s, and deleveraging.&#8221; Wells Fargo upgrades SM Energy to overweight from equal weight Wells says the exploration and production company is attractive. &#8220;We upgrade SM from EW to OW with a $47 price target, based on NAV.&#8221; Bank of America reiterates Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia as buy The bank says both stocks remain top ideas. &#8220;AMD remains top CPU pick, NVDA overall sector top pick.&#8221; Citi upgrades Establishment Labs to buy from neutral Citi says buy the dip in the medtech company. &#8220;We believe ESTA &#8216;s post-print slump, down 13.4%, was more a reflection of positioning and lingering concerns over the macro environment than a check on management&#8217;s execution and commercial performance.&#8221; Bank of America reiterates Nebius as buy Bank of America raised its price target to $310 per share from $280. &#8221; Nebius Group reported robust 2Q26 results with revenue growth of 454% YoY vs. Street&#8217;s 430% expectation and EBITDA margin of 40.5%, ahead of Street&#8217;s 27.8%, driven by capacity additions and higher-margin revenue streams.&#8221; Read more. Bank of America reiterates MongoDB as buy The bank says the stock is undervalued. &#8220;Reiterate Buy, raise PO to $540 (from $450) on our higher conviction that MongoDB will win meaningful share of future AI workloads.&#8221; Citi reiterates SpaceX as buy Citi says it&#8217;s sticking with SpaceX. &#8220;On space: We view space as an emerging opportunity for investors that could reshape many domains and reiterate our Buy rating on SpaceX.&#8221; Morgan Stanley reiterates Cisco as overweight The bsays shares of Cisco have plenty more room to run following earnings. &#8221; CSCO is seeing broad-based strength across core enterprise and hyperscaler AI, with improving share momentum as the company is facing fewer supply-chain challenges.&#8221; Oppenheimer initiates Carriage Service as outperform Oppenheimer says the funeral company is a &#8220;quality asset.&#8221; &#8220;With an attractive risk\/reward profile and &gt; 40% upside potential, we&#8217;re initiating on Carriage Services with an Outperform rating\/$48 target.&#8221; Jefferies upgrades Brightstar Lottery to buy from hold Jefferies sees &#8220;significant&#8221; free-cash low acceleration. &#8220;BRSL&#8217;s lottery business has historically progressed through significant cash flow cycles that have been key drivers of the shares with current circumstances suggesting a positive set-up.&#8221; Bank of America downgrades Stubhub to underperform from neutral Bank of America sees deteriorating growth for Stubhub. &#8220;World Cup catalyst in rear view, slower growth ahead; DG to Underperform.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday: HSBC upgrades Keurig Dr Pepper to buy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[260442,34587,67624,264006,10387,264009,82046,941,264004,114,357,264003,19224,264010,92925,264001,17098,85,942,46,139640,190,150113,50367,1677,939,264002,264008,264007,193809,20681,264005,11603,143138],"class_list":["post-583538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-gc26z","tag-abbott-laboratories","tag-abbvie-inc","tag-achieve-life-sciences-inc","tag-advanced-micro-devices-inc","tag-allegro-microsystems-inc","tag-biogen-inc","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-brightstar-lottery-plc","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-carriage-services-inc","tag-cisco-systems-inc","tag-establishment-labs-holdings-inc","tag-five-below-inc","tag-galiano-gold-inc","tag-ghana","tag-il","tag-investment-strategy","tag-israel","tag-keurig-dr-pepper-inc","tag-markets","tag-mongodb-inc","tag-nebius-group-nv","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-salesforce-inc","tag-sibanye-stillwater-limited","tag-silgan-holdings-inc","tag-sm-energy-co","tag-space-exploration-technologies-corp","tag-stubhub-holdings-inc","tag-vail-resorts-inc","tag-walt-disney-co","tag-whitefiber-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}