For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – December 15, 2011 – Zacks.com announces the list
of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity
Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting
stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the
blog include Hewlett-Packard Co.
(HPQ), Cisco Systems Inc. ( CSCO), Apple
Inc. ( AAPL), Dell Inc. ( DELL) and
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. (
PTEN).
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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst
Blog:
H-P Wins 7-Year Agro Deal Renewal
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s (HPQ) Swiss-arm has
reportedly inked a seven-year information technology (IT)
infrastructure service agreement with a globally acknowledged Swiss
agribusiness company Syngenta Crop Protection AG. The contract
price was kept confidential.
Formed in 2000, Syngenta AG is a vendor of seeds and pesticides
across the world, also involved in biotechnology and genomic
research.
Leveraging H-P’s cloud computing solutions and data center
support, Syngenta will shift some IT infrastructure to its private
cloud. A private cloud is virtual technological infrastructure
operated solely for a single organization, whether managed
internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally.
The cloud infrastructure will be Syngenta’s platform for research
and development activities. This will allow the company to deliver
advanced agro products as and when required, ultimately helping
growers to maximize their production.
Moreover, H-P’s will extend its security and workplace services
to Syngenta to secure its cloud environment as well as manage
digital work-stations. Syngenta shares a long-term business
relation with H-P and this deal renewal indicates the agro firm’s
unrelenting trust in the tech giant’s services.
H-P has cut some more service deals in the past few months.
Mortgage solutions provider Loan Value Group LLC selected H-P’s
services for five years. The Australian government selected H-P’s
technology service to design, build and maintain a portion of the
information, communication and technology systems of the digital
hospital.
Despite continuous deal wins, we remain cautious about the
company’s growth, particularly as competition from other big
technology players, such as Cisco Systems Inc. (
CSCO), Apple Inc. ( AAPL), Acer and Dell
Inc. ( DELL) heats up. Moreover, the expected decline in
PC shipments stemming from the hard disk drive supply cut due to
the Thailand flood is raising investor confusion over the
stock.
H-P now has a short-term Hold recommendation (Zacks #3
Rank).
Patterson-UTI Downgraded to
Neutral
We have downgraded onshore contract driller
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. (
PTEN) to Neutral from Outperform; the primary
factor being increased labor costs for contract drilling that may
lead to slower margin growth going forward.
Patterson-UTI has approximately 350 land-based rigs that operate
mainly in the oil and natural gas producing regions of North
America. The company operates primarily in Texas, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Colorado, Utah,
Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
western Canada.
Additionally, Patterson-UTI is engaged in the exploration and
production business and provides pressure pumping services (an
umbrella term used to describe a number of vital services performed
on new and existing wells).
While we continue to like the company for its growing premium
land rig fleet, stellar financial health (free cash flow positive
and a debt-free balance sheet) and exposure to the boom in pressure
pumping services, we don't see any obvious catalyst in National
Oilwell’s business to significantly push the stock price
higher.
We remain particularly worried about the labor inflation
associated with Patterson-UTI’s conventional contract drilling rig
fleet, which may put a brake on the segment’s margin expansion. To
make matters worse, the company seems unable to make up for this
with higher pricing in pressure pumping.
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