Canaccord Genuity raised its TSLA price target by 36%
The U.S. stock market is mixed as oil prices drop. Among individual names making notable moves are streaming issue Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU), electric car concern Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), and aircraft components maker Triumph Group Inc(NYSE: TGI). Here's a quick roundup of what's moving the shares of ROKU, TSLA, and TGI.
Vertical Group downgraded Roku stock to "negative from "mixed," sending the shares down 3.4% to trade at $46.61. The equity earlier found a foothold near $45.74 -- home to its Nov. 8 bear gap close, as well as a 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of its fourth-quarter sell-off. However, just above is ROKU's 200-day moving average -- currently perched near the round $50 mark -- which has contained the security's early 2019 upside.
ROKU shares are still up 57.5% year-to-date, and options traders are optimistic. At the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), the equity's 10-day call/put volume ratio of 5.10 ranks in the 92nd annual percentile, meaning calls have been bought to open over puts at a quicker-than-usual clip.
Tesla stock was upgraded to "buy" from "hold" at Canaccord Genuity, with the brokerage firm also raising its price target to $450 from $330 -- a 47% premium to last Friday's close. The brokerage firm expects electric vehicle market share to account for 50% of vehicles by 2030, and said TSLA's "EV penetration story is underappreciated by the Street."
This marks a change of pace from recent Tesla analyst attention -- with the majority in coverage maintaining a "hold" or worse rating -- and is offsetting a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that showed T. Rowe Price (TROW) cut its TSLA stock to 5.2% from 10.1%. The stock is up 2.7% at $314.02, though the gains are being capped by TSLA's 180-day moving average, which has kept a tight lid on the shares since a mid-January bear gap.
Triumph Group stock is trading 4.7% higher at $22.66 -- on track for its 10th straight win, and fifth consecutive close above its 180-day moving average -- as a double upgrade to "buy" from "underperform" at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch (BAML) overshadows a downgrade to "market perform" from "outperform" at Cowen and Company. BAML waxed optimistic on the company's cost-cutting efforts following the recent sales of its jet-making and fabrications units.
TGI stock's extended rally is likely weighing on short sellers. Short interest jumped 4.9% in the most recent reporting period to 6.97 million shares. This represents 14.3% of the security's available float, or 9.2 times the average daily trading volume.