CHICAGO, April 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 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: Waste Management Inc.
(NYSE: WM), Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE: BDX),
Waste Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST), Republic
Services Inc. (NYSE: RSG) and
Telefonica (NYSE: TEF).
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Here are highlights from Thursday's Analyst
Blog:
Waste Management Teams with BDX
Waste Management Inc.'s (NYSE: WM) subsidiary, WM
Healthcare Solutions and Becton, Dickinson and
Company (NYSE: BDX) have entered into an agreement to
recycle medical sharps waste from hospitals and other health care
facilities. The companies are jointly launching the BD ecoFinity
Life Cycle Solution – an innovative service that will recycle
medical sharps waste to manufacture new products.
Becton, Dickinson is a medical technology company that serves
health care institutions, life science researchers, clinical
laboratories, industry and the general public. The company
manufactures and sells a broad range of medical supplies, devices,
laboratory equipment and diagnostic products.
Waste Management will collect and process the materials from
Becton, Dickinsons' network of health care customers and then give
them back to the latter for the manufacturing of new products. The
program will help health care facilities reduce the materials that
go into disposal, increase the use of recycled materials in new
products, and manufacture products in a more sustainable
manner.
Becton, Dickinson believes that more than 70% of its overall
sharps waste may be recovered and recycled rather than be
permanently disposed off in landfills as is the practice now. This
agreement with Becton, Dickinson showcases Waste Management's
expertise in comprehensive waste services, in particular the areas
of recycling, landfill, waste-to-energy and consulting
services.
The alliance will also help Waste Management meet its
sustainability goals – nearly tripling the amount of recyclables it
processes by 2020 – and investing in emerging technologies for
managing waste.
We currently have a Zacks #3 Rank (short-term Hold
recommendation) on the Waste Management stock.
Houston, Texas-based Waste
Management is the largest provider of comprehensive waste
management services in North
America. The company provides collection, transfer,
recycling and resource recovery, and disposal services to nearly 20
million residential, commercial, industrial and municipal
customers.
The company is also a leading developer, operator and owner of
waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the U.S.
Waste Management competes with Casella Waste Systems
Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST), Republic Services
Inc. (NYSE: RSG) and privately held Safety-Kleen Inc.
Telefonica Sets 3-Year Growth Plan
Spanish telecom giant Telefonica (NYSE:
TEF) set its annual revenue growth target at 1% to 4% through 2013
at its investor meeting in London.
A weak Spanish market remains a concern for the company as
customers are switching to cheaper offers from its competitors.
Telefonica expects its operating margin to decline slightly over
the three-year period from 38% earned in 2010, but remain above the
mid point of the 30–40% range.
We believe Spain is not working
in favor of Telefonica. The economic downturn in that country has
been more than expected and is likely to drag the company's profits
and liquidity. Further, the company's Spanish revenue continues to
be affected by the ongoing reduction in mobile termination rates,
which is the fee that operators charge each other to connect
calls.
However, weak Spanish operations are expected to be fully offset
by strong growth in Latin America
and Europe. Latin America is one of the best performing
areas and remains the principal growth region for Telefonica. This
segment continues to post healthy subscriber additions on a
quarterly basis. The company's subscriber base is expected to
expand to more than 340 million by 2013 from 287.6 million reported
in 2010.
Telefonica continues to invest in growth and transformation
projects, fostering the development of broadband services (both
fixed and wireless). The company will invest €27 billion,
distributed equally over three years (2011–2013). We believe
increased adoption of mobile broadband will fuel earnings growth
ahead.
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