NetApp (NTAP, $49.78) gets rating downgrade and price target cut from Goldman Sachs, on enterprise market concerns
On Thursday, NetApp shares got a rating downgrade and a price target cut from Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall.
Hall lowered his rating on the cloud data services company’s stock to sell from buy. He slashed his price target on the shares as well.
The analyst is concerned that trade tensions and economic uncertainty will weigh on enterprise spending, thereby making NetApp vulnerable. Hill indicated in his note that NetApp’s Enterprise License Agreement guidance of 2% of total revenue in FY’20, which is heavily second-half loaded, may be difficult to achieve given that the deals tend to largely involve larger enterprise customers.
However, several other analysts might have had a somewhat different view in the recent past, regarding NetApp shares. Cowen analyst Karl Ackerman in August upgraded NetApp stock to market perform from underperform and hiked his price target to $45 from $40. Last month, Susquehanna analyst Mehdi Hosseini upgraded his rating to positive from neutral, and also raised his one-year price target to $75 from $54.
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Notable companies
The most notable companies in this group are Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL), HP (NYSE:HPQ), Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC), NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP), Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (NASDAQ:STX), Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG), 3D Systems Corp (NYSE:DDD).
Industry description
Computer peripherals connect to a computer system to add functionality or to get information from or put information into computers. Think hard disk drive, data storage systems, cloud storage devices, printer and scanner, or mouse, keyboard etc. Some of the major companies operating in the computer peripherals industry include Western Digital Corporation, Seagate Technology PLC, NetApp, Inc., Zebra Technologies Corporation, and Xerox Holdings Corp.
Market Cap
The average market capitalization across the Computer Peripherals Industry is 8.77B. The market cap for tickers in the group ranges from 1.2K to 262.23B. ADTEF holds the highest valuation in this group at 262.23B. The lowest valued company is DPSM at 1.2K.
High and low price notable news
The average weekly price growth across all stocks in the Computer Peripherals Industry was 2%. For the same Industry, the average monthly price growth was 3%, and the average quarterly price growth was 5%. RCAT experienced the highest price growth at 38%, while DDDX experienced the biggest fall at -22%.
Volume
The average weekly volume growth across all stocks in the Computer Peripherals Industry was 17%. For the same stocks of the Industry, the average monthly volume growth was 46% and the average quarterly volume growth was -6%
Fundamental Analysis Ratings
The average fundamental analysis ratings, where 1 is best and 100 is worst, are as follows
Valuation Rating: 51
P/E Growth Rating: 63
Price Growth Rating: 60
SMR Rating: 80
Profit Risk Rating: 81
Seasonality Score: -9 (-100 ... +100)