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Panthers rookie tight end Ja'Tavion Sanders released from hospital after suffering neck injuryThroughout the last three months, 4 analysts have evaluated Agilent Technologies A , offering a diverse set of opinions from bullish to bearish. The table below summarizes their recent ratings, showcasing the evolving sentiments within the past 30 days and comparing them to the preceding months. Bullish Somewhat Bullish Indifferent Somewhat Bearish Bearish Total Ratings 0 1 2 1 0 Last 30D 0 1 1 0 0 1M Ago 0 0 0 0 0 2M Ago 0 0 1 1 0 3M Ago 0 0 0 0 0 The 12-month price targets, analyzed by analysts, offer insights with an average target of $146.25, a high estimate of $160.00, and a low estimate of $135.00. Marking an increase of 1.74%, the current average surpasses the previous average price target of $143.75. Deciphering Analyst Ratings: An In-Depth Analysis The standing of Agilent Technologies among financial experts becomes clear with a thorough analysis of recent analyst actions. The summary below outlines key analysts, their recent evaluations, and adjustments to ratings and price targets. Analyst Analyst Firm Action Taken Rating Current Price Target Prior Price Target Eve Burstein Bernstein Lowers Market Perform $135.00 $140.00 Rachel Vatnsdal JP Morgan Lowers Overweight $160.00 $165.00 Luke Sergott Barclays Raises Underweight $145.00 $135.00 Vijay Kumar Evercore ISI Group Raises In-Line $145.00 $135.00 Key Insights: Action Taken: Analysts adapt their recommendations to changing market conditions and company performance. Whether they 'Maintain', 'Raise' or 'Lower' their stance, it reflects their response to recent developments related to Agilent Technologies. This information provides a snapshot of how analysts perceive the current state of the company. Rating: Analyzing trends, analysts offer qualitative evaluations, ranging from 'Outperform' to 'Underperform'. These ratings convey expectations for the relative performance of Agilent Technologies compared to the broader market. Price Targets: Analysts navigate through adjustments in price targets, providing estimates for Agilent Technologies's future value. Comparing current and prior targets offers insights into analysts' evolving expectations. Assessing these analyst evaluations alongside crucial financial indicators can provide a comprehensive overview of Agilent Technologies's market position. Stay informed and make well-judged decisions with the assistance of our Ratings Table. Stay up to date on Agilent Technologies analyst ratings. Discovering Agilent Technologies: A Closer Look Originally spun out of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Agilent has evolved into a leading life science and diagnostic firm. Today, Agilent's measurement technologies serve a broad base of customers with its three operating segments: life science and applied tools, cross lab consisting of consumables and services related to life science and applied tools, and diagnostics and genomics. Over half of its sales are generated from the biopharmaceutical, chemical, and advanced materials end markets, which we view as the stickiest end markets, but it also supports clinical lab, environmental, forensics, food, academic, and government-related organizations. The company is geographically diverse, with operations in the US and China representing the largest country concentrations. Agilent Technologies: Delving into Financials Market Capitalization Analysis: With an elevated market capitalization, the company stands out above industry averages, showcasing substantial size and market acknowledgment. Revenue Challenges: Agilent Technologies's revenue growth over 3 months faced difficulties. As of 31 July, 2024, the company experienced a decline of approximately -5.62% . This indicates a decrease in top-line earnings. As compared to its peers, the revenue growth lags behind its industry peers. The company achieved a growth rate lower than the average among peers in Health Care sector. Net Margin: Agilent Technologies's net margin surpasses industry standards, highlighting the company's exceptional financial performance. With an impressive 17.87% net margin, the company effectively manages costs and achieves strong profitability. Return on Equity (ROE): The company's ROE is a standout performer, exceeding industry averages. With an impressive ROE of 4.65%, the company showcases effective utilization of equity capital. Return on Assets (ROA): The company's ROA is a standout performer, exceeding industry averages. With an impressive ROA of 2.58%, the company showcases effective utilization of assets. Debt Management: The company maintains a balanced debt approach with a debt-to-equity ratio below industry norms, standing at 0.5 . How Are Analyst Ratings Determined? Experts in banking and financial systems, analysts specialize in reporting for specific stocks or defined sectors. Their comprehensive research involves attending company conference calls and meetings, analyzing financial statements, and engaging with insiders to generate what are known as analyst ratings for stocks. Typically, analysts assess and rate each stock once per quarter. Some analysts publish their predictions for metrics such as growth estimates, earnings, and revenue to provide additional guidance with their ratings. When using analyst ratings, it is important to keep in mind that stock and sector analysts are also human and are only offering their opinions to investors. Which Stocks Are Analysts Recommending Now? Benzinga Edge gives you instant access to all major analyst upgrades, downgrades, and price targets. Sort by accuracy, upside potential, and more. Click here to stay ahead of the market . This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
As Nigeria grapples with perennial security challenges amidst rising hunger, leadership experts and stakeholders from different backgrounds have called on government at all levels, as well as privileged individuals , to give urgent attention to economic empowerment of youths in order to build lasting peace and security across the country. The stakeholders made the call at the 14th edition of the annual Peace Achievers International Conference and Awards Night held on Saturday with the theme, “Building Bridges for Sustainable Peace and Security: Integrating Sectors for Harmonious Future”, at the Abuja Continental Hotel in the FCT. The 2024 conference brought together heads of organisations, seasoned entrepreneurs, members of the diplomatic community, traditional rulers and the academia from across Nigeria and beyond to deliberate and chart a common front towards building sustainable peace for a prosperous nation. According to the stakeholders, for the country to effectively curb the challenges of insecurity,sectional conflicts and youths restiveness, there is need to productively engage young Nigerians who constitute a chunk of its workforce. Amb. Kingsley Amafibe, Project Coordinator of Peace Ambassador Agency, organisers of the conference, said there was urgent need to create economic opportunities for Nigerian youth to get them productively occupied. “In fact, we are sitting on a time bomb and our leaders should take this very seriously, because our major problem is youth unemployment, as our youths are graduating from school every day without job, and even those who want to create the jobs as private individuals do not have access to finance. “I think everyone of our leaders knows what to do, because they all have a blueprint before they come into power, but very often when they get into power they forget these things. “They travel abroad and see how these things are done, but they come back to Nigeria and still subject people to poverty. “For the past 14 years, we have been able to impact and reach out to communities with our peace campaign and have over 1,000 children under our scholarship,” he said. Amafibe however urged Nigerian youths to take responsibility for themselves to build that future of their dreams through hard work and discipline, adding that the failure of successive governments to build a better society should not be an excuse for youths to remain unproductive. He said, “I take myself as an example and I like to share my story because I came to Abuja without nothing, but today I have been able to put things together. “The problem with many young people is that they tend to divert their attention to any trending opportunity without focusing their energy in one craft and say this is what I want to pursue,” he said. Mr Felix Achibiri, Executive Chairman, DFC Holdings Ltd,who spoke on Peace Building and through Sectoral Partnership, said youth economic empowerment was a catalyst for sustainable peace. He, however, noted that government alone cannot create jobs, adding that there was need for private organisations to take youth empowerment as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility “There is a clear nexus between job security and building a harmonious and peaceful environment or society, and there is also a need for the corporate sector to invest in community social responsibility. According to him, the government on this part has a greater role to play by making sure that an enabling environment is created for the private sector to thrive. “There is urgent need to embrace technology to unlock value because today, African digital economy is projected to hit about 185 billion dollars,so what are we doing as a nation to take advantage of this? “There is need to develop the ICT sector and set up incubation and acceleration centers in our primary schools and secondary schools, to unlock value and prepare our youth for the great ahead,” he said. Mr Michael Bartlett-Vanderpuye, President and Group Chairman M&C Group Global, said there was need for African youths to challenge themselves and take their future in their hands. “We have a dependent culture and it is across Africa where somebody is a university graduate but he is waiting for his father’s uncle’s friend who is in government to connect him to work. “In Europe and in the U.S., most of the time, by 16 years they are already selling, working at Walmart, and they are teaching them to be independent, not to be dependent. “In Africa, some of 40-year old men are still living in their father’s houses, and the father inherited it from the grandfather,so we have to cut that dependent culture to create avenues for wealth creation,” he said. Dr Victor Enebeli, Director of Studies, Justice Mary Odili Judicial Institute, said Nigeria’s leadership challenges were local and therefore need workable solutions that are unique to them. According to him, What Nigeria needs is a peace summit that involves the grassroots by involving the 774 local governments. “They will tell us what their problems are and what the solutions are , and at this point, we are not importing solutions anymore as we have the solutions here in Nigeria with us.” Highpoint of the day was the presentation of the Peace Achievers Awards to charitable individuals and organisations who have used their resources to positively affect society and the presentation of the ‘100 Most Notable Business Executive & Leadership Magazine and ‘The Rise of African Fashion Designers & Lifestyle’ by Amb.Kingsley Amafibe.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina rookie tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders has been discharged from the Carolinas Medical Center after suffering a neck injury in the Panthers' 30-27 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. Panthers coach Dave Canales offered no update on Sanders’ status other than to say he was released from the hospital after being evaluated by doctors. Team officials said Sanders had full use of all of his extremities. Sanders, who has been a budding young star on the Panthers offense, caught a 10-yard pass near the sideline before being upended by Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie near the end of the first half. He flipped in the air and landed on the back of his head and remained on the ground for several minutes as teammates gathered around him. Sanders was put on a backboard and taken to the locker room. He appeared to raise his arms with a trainer's hand draped on top of them as he left the field. Sanders had three catches for 49 yards before the injury. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFLMeta faces April trial in FTC case seeking to unwind Instagram merger
Tonight’s 1-1 draw at basement boys Plymouth followed a goalless game with QPR at Vicarage Road, and the Hornets have taken as many points off the current top six as they half from the half dozen teams at the bottom. “I think our points return as a whole against bottom-six teams this season has let us down a little bit,” admitted head coach Tom Cleverley. “I don’t think that’s an attitude thing. “Certainly at Plymouth we deserved all three points, but it is something we need to address: why are we picking up four or five wins against teams in and around the top seven and none against the bottom six? “We need to look at it and see if there are patterns there we can address as coaches, and move on. “We move the focus to West Brom now with 31 points from 19 games, and that’s a good return: I’m not focussing on the last two.” Having gone a goal down inside the last 10 minutes to a Hull side that had lost their last six games, Watford were staring down the barrel of a long journey home with nothing at all until Rocco Vata’s first goal for the club two minutes from the end of normal time levelled the game up. “It feels like a point gained under the circumstances,” said Cleverley. “We knew it wouldn’t be easy coming here this evening with a new manager in Ruben, who is a top coach. “I thought in the first half we showed good periods of quality and personality on the ball. “We knew they would come with a high press and it was all about having the character to try and break through that. “Then in the second half as the pitch cut up we maybe tried overplaying because all their chances seemed to come from low turnovers from us, and it was maybe up to me to find the solution. “Maybe this is where we should have gone a little bit more direct because the pitch wasn’t lending itself to playing football. “We couldn’t change the momentum of the game in the second half so I was really pleased with the players’ character to get the equaliser after going a goal behind.”The Mass Leads Act contains a provision that could give ticket resellers powers to restrict where fans can resell or transfer tickets - or prevent them from doing so altogether A new bill signed into law in Massachusetts has been widely criticised for ultimately strengthening Ticketmaster’s monopoly. The Mass Leads Act is an economic development bill focusing on climate technology, life sciences and AI. However, it has a provision that allows ticket sellers to prevent buyers from transferring or reselling tickets, or restrict them to only reselling on the platform where the ticket was bought. This has been criticised for increasing pricing for fans and undercutting market competition. The bill comes just six months after Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, faced an anti-trust lawsuit from the US Justice Department . The suit alleged that the company’s concert promotion and ticketing operations have undermined competition in the live music industry, leading to unfair market leverage, high transaction fees and flawed customer service. The report claims that since the 2010 merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the enterprise has gone on to control more than 80 per cent of the market for ticket sales in the US. “Massachusetts joined the federal antitrust suit against Live Nation — but now it’s opening the door for Live Nation to strengthen its monopoly by cutting off the transfer of tickets” said Chamber Of Progress Senior Director Of Technology Policy Todd O’Boyle. “Bay Staters are some of the most dedicated sports fans, but this will make it harder for families to support the Red Sox at Fenway. When the General Court reconvenes in 2025, they should fix this anti-fan mistake.” The Boston Globe reports that a coalition of consumer advocacy groups sent a letter to Governor Maura Healey last week saying, “Ticket transferability gives consumers control of their tickets after they purchase them, empowering fans to comparison shop across different marketplaces.” Ticketmaster. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Statistics show that resale marketplaces often save ticket holders a significant amount of money. According to analysis by fan advocacy organisation Protect Ticket Rights, concertgoers in Massachusetts saved $13.87 million when purchasing on resale marketplaces [via Boston.com ]. The consumer advocacy organisation Sports Fans Coalition did a similar study and found that fans across the US saved $351 million by buying tickets to sporting events through the secondary ticket market between 2017 and 2024. In response, Live Nation issued a statement to Stereogum, in which they said: “Broker advocates are masquerading as consumer watchdogs. Fighting this bill protects scalpers who profit off ransoming tickets to the highest bidder. This bill ensures artists and teams have the choice to cap resale and protect their fans from paying two times as much to scalpers. “Suggestions that Ticketmaster buys back tickets to resell them for profit are unequivocally false.” Ticketmaster’s practices have been the subject of significant controversy for a while now, particularly in relation to the Oasis reunion tour next summer . Despite the pair’s strong anti-tout stance and efforts to curb inflated re-sale prices , fans soon discovered that Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing system was in place, which meant that ticket costs increased in response to demand. According to experts, not warning fans prior to the sale may have been a breach of consumer law , and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has also called for a review into dynamic pricing and secondary ticket sites. The controversy pulled back into focus Robert Smith ’s endeavours to keep tickets for The Cure shows affordable for fans . In an email to fans last year, The Cure frontman vowed to keep ticket prices reasonable on the band’s US tour, writing: “The Cure have agreed all ticket prices, and apart from a few Hollywood Bowl charity seats, there will be no ‘platinum’ or ‘dynamically priced’ tickets on this tour.” After tickets went on sale, the musician said he was “sickened” by high Ticketmaster fees that were still applied , and subsequently pushed Ticketmaster to give money back for “unduly high” fees . He also asked Ticketmaster to explain why tickets in the promised face value ticket exchange were “weird” and “over priced” . Related Topics Live Music News
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Arsenal defender Gabriel kept Viktor Gyokeres quiet — then had the audacity to steal the in-demand Sporting Lisbon striker's trademark goal celebration. After heading in Arsenal's third first-half goal in the Champions League on Tuesday, Gabriel linked the fingers of his hands and placed them over his eyes, before laughing with his teammates. It was most likely a dig at Gyokeres, the Sweden striker who has quickly become one of European soccer's hottest properties . That is how Gyokeres celebrates his goals — and he has scored plenty of those this season. Gyokeres has scored 24 goals for Sporting in all competitions and was coming off netting four for Sweden in a Nations League match against Azerbaijan. Earlier in the first half, Gabriel had enjoyed tackling and dispossessing Gyokeres near the Arsenal area — waving both his arms in a gesture to the crowd. Gabriel's goal made it 3-0 to Arsenal at halftime and the English team went on to win 5-1, with Gyokeres failing to score. He did hit the post with a shot late in the game, however — after Gabriel had gone off with an injury. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
