摩根士丹利上调Robinhood评级，Evercore大幅上调Duolingo

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Let's bring in Christina Kino right now. Christine, what stocks are on the move today?

All right, Scarlet, let's start with Robin Hood this morning. Ticker H O D. So those shares are up 7/10 of 1% at the m or rather 3/10en of 1%. So pairing some of those opening gains. It was up a lot more earlier because Morgan Stanley raised its recommendation on the exchange to overweight from equal weight. They also raised the price target to 150 from 124 previously and that compares with the last closing price of that stock at 104.

So analyst Michael Cyprius really citing revenue growth as the main catalyst for this move. He sees revenue growing to around 8 billion in 2028 and potential catalyst from perpetual futures in Agentic Trading. I looked into perpetual futures by the way. It seems like scary stuff for retail traders because it's a lot more complicated and it involves leverage uh and it seems like it requires a lot of knowledge for your average retail trader.

But

it'll work until suddenly it doesn't work and everyone will say, "Wait, this was was way too much for everyone."

Exactly. It seems like a good idea until maybe it won't be. But, you know, I mean, that's something that uh Robin Hood uh potentially leveraging on for for growth.

Sounds familiar, Christine.

Yeah. What could go wrong, you know?

Exactly. But it's different this time. What else are you looking at this morning?

All right, let's take a look at Duolingo as well. So, ticker Du Exactly. The owl and it's doing well today. shares are up more than 5%. Again, analyst action here. Evercore upgrading the language learning software to outperform from inline previously. And price target also raised a street high view. They're now looking at a 210 price target from 105 previously. And that compares with uh last close of 14836. And so analyst Mark Mahaney really seeing an opportunity here to follow up uh after severe weakness in the stock. is down more than 70% off of its peak in mid 2025.

But he does site that the company has a widening lead over YouTube and Google Translate as a language learning tool. You know why? It's because of the owl. It's very persistent.

Skil trips guilt you into doing your language lessons.

Oh, it's it's intense. Yeah.

All the notifications saying that the owl is waiting for you to complete your Dualingo exercise for the day. Like

sad faces.

Yeah.

Sad faces. Wow. This is psychologically haunting.

It is. But it works because apparently it guilts a lot of people into doing their

Dualingo.

There you go.

Okay. Um, remind me not to start Dolingo for that reason. I don't need any more guilt. Last stock on your list.

Let's take a look at Kroger as well. So those shares up seven times 1% also pairing some opening gains. The ticker is KR. And more analyst action here this time. City analyst Paul Lgee cutting his price target on the groceryer to a street low $57 from 61 and also adding a downside 30-day catalyst watch. So Lege really looking at second quarter identical store sales growth and EPS uh meeting consensus estimates for the second quarter, but there are a lot of industry pressures and makes the comparison with Walmart.

You know, Walmart had a $3 billion tariff refund, largely being invested in prices to drive them down. Uh, and that compares with Kroger's overall EBIT of $5 billion. Now, earnings are scheduled for September 11th. So, we'll see what Kroger management has to say about all of that.

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