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Blodget To Leave Merrill Lynch
News Internet stock analyst Henry Blodget will take a buyout offer from Merrill Lynch, taking advantage of a buyout offered to nearly 50,000 workers, according to published reports. Blodget couldn't be reached for comment.
[November 15, 2001, 12:29]
Blodget: Microsoft Needs A Yahoo!
News When Merrill Lynch Internet expert Henry Blodget talks, markets move. But Blodget noted that if the government was to "chop up" Microsoft, such a move would result in higher shareholder value. Blodget, head of Merrill Lynch's Internet research...
[March 3, 2000, 9:45]
Blodget Cuts Microsoft Rating And Questions Growth
News Influential analyst Henry Blodget initiated coverage of Microsoft on Thursday by cutting Merrill Lynch's long-term rating on the company to "accumulate". In a lengthy research note, Blodget acknowledged Microsoft's financial prowess, but questioned...
[February 8, 2001, 16:31]
The Day Ahead: Simplify Wall Street's Rating System
News Merrill Lynch's Henry Blodget has quite a reputation for talking out of both sides of his mouth and being bullish about Net stocks even as he's downgrading them. When Blodget "reset his sector ratings" last week, it gave the media and Wall Street...
[August 14, 2000, 13:33]
Internet Market Shakeout Looms
News Internet analyst Henry Blodget, of investment bank Merrill Lynch, has warned investors that only a select few companies will dominate the online marketplace, although he also predicted that the industry at large would continue to grow handsomely.
[October 11, 1999, 13:58]
Analyst Says AOL Growth Is Down
News The note by analyst Henry Blodget said that, based on conversations with the company, AOL is expected to say it added between 750,000 and 850,000 new members during its fourth quarter. Blodget said the slowdown was mainly due to international...
[June 11, 1999, 10:24]
Leader: No Guts, Little Glory For Amazon.com Pundits
News We still believe in Amazon.com -- we really do," Blodget said in the note. Judging from his fence-straddling research note, Blodget wants it both ways: He wants the recognition of "discovering" Amazon.com from the get-go and riding it to a glorious...
[November 1, 1999, 11:53]
Dot-com Investor Wins Payout Over Biased Analyst Claims
News Debases Kankilal, a doctor based in New York, claimed that "overly bullish" research published by Henry Blodget cost him around £350,000. Kankilal alleged that Blodget recommended buying shares in Web firm InfoSpace so that Merrill Lynch received...
[July 24, 2001, 12:04]
The Day Ahead: Portal Earnings Preview
News projects earnings of less than 50 cents a share, shares could fall below $20, said Blodget. Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget, like many analysts, expects Yahoo to talk down its first quarter guidance, while hitting its fourth quarter numbers.
[January 8, 2001, 14:03]
US Internet Access Charges Could Rise
News At a time when online advertising has grown soft nearly across the board, a $2 (£1) monthly increase per subscriber could generate about $365m in revenue in 2001, according to Blodget. AOL, already the world's largest Internet service, with 27...
[January 18, 2001, 8:11]
Report: Xbox Will Be A Loser For Microsoft
News Ironically, the more units sold in the early years, the greater the losses," Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget said in the report. And production costs are expected to be an unusually high $375 per machine because of the console's advanced...
[March 7, 2001, 9:00]
Monti To Microsoft: Guilty As Charged
Talkback Bundling of products is can be an abuse, if you have to buy a Widget, would you be happy if in order to buy said Widget you also had to buy a Blodget along with it? You would have to pay more money for the Widget and Blodget combined - despite the...
[June 11, 2005, 21:19]
E-commerce Analysts Remake Themselves
News Take Henry Blodget, an influential Merrill Lynch Internet analyst who gained notoriety with a lofty $400 per share target price for Amazon.com several years ago. Earlier this month, Blodget picked up coverage on Microsoft.
[February 20, 2001, 14:59]
The Day Ahead: Big Is Beautiful For AOL, But Ad Picture Fuzzy
News Indeed, worrying about the sequential ad growth is a bit nit-picky considering some analysts, such as Merrill Lynch's Henry Blodget, expected ad revenue to grow seven percent. As a result of rockiness in the online ad market, DoubleClick has gone...
[July 21, 2000, 13:58]
Microsoft May Dodge Tech-industry Bullet
News In a Monday research note, Blodget predicted third-fiscal quarter revenue of $6bn, far short of Microsoft's $6.3bn to $6.4bn prediction. ING Barings analyst George Godfrey didn't share Blodget's optimism, predicting Microsoft would miss consensus...
[April 19, 2001, 14:55]
Microsoft Hailstorm Rains On AOL
News Second, and more importantly, HailStorm should make the .Net platform more attractive to third-party developers," Blodget said. In a Monday research note Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget said HailStorm is important to Microsoft for two reasons.
[March 20, 2001, 7:26]
The Day Ahead: Ready, Set, Rollup
News IVIL continues to trade as if it may go out of business," said Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget. It was odd that Merrill's Blodget took over coverage of Microsoft. What was really notable was that Blodget downgraded Microsoft to an "accumulate...
[February 9, 2001, 12:08]
The Day Ahead: Analysts Struggle For Material
News Blodget, who has a higher long-term rating on Amazon than Microsoft, just doesn't see the negative working capital position as a problem. We quoted several analysts responding to Suria's report last week, but Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget had...
[February 13, 2001, 13:02]
The Day Ahead: Profits Are Amazon's Only Defence Against Critics
News The last equity analyst that was extremely vocal about Amazon's prospects was Jonathan Cohen, Blodget's predecessor at Merrill. Isn't it interesting that Merrill Lynch's Henry Blodget and other analysts can flag sales concerns, but still always...
[June 26, 2000, 11:55]
Excite@Home Faces Bankruptcy
News If Excite@Home is delisted it's likely to declare bankruptcy, said Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget in a research note. Blodget said Excite@Home is facing a Hobson's choice about its media business.
[August 21, 2001, 8:43]
