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Comcast• MCSA-Nasdaq


Outperform • Price $45.52 on Sept. 4


by Oppenheimer


Comcast is trading at its lowest relative


price/earnings ratio to the market ever


and its highest free-cash-flow yield (our


9% estimate versus the Street’s 8%) and


dividend yield relative to Treasuries. It


will delever from three times Ebitda to


two times within two years, driven by very


strong broadband growth and margins,


but we also expect good margin expansion


from Sky and NBCUniversal.


Comcast will have easier comps in 2020,


with two very significant events: the sum-


mer Olympics and U.S. elections. Film also


has easier comps and should benefit from


new installments in both Minions and the


Fast and Furious franchises. Broadband/


Sky are seeing stronger incremental mar-


gins....Comcast is executing well and is


highly diversified, with the ability to slash


expenses to improve margins. Video sub-


scribers are a concern going forward.


However, broadband is as strong as ever,


with rising prices and very high incremen-


tal margins with declining capital intensity.


This is the primary driver of free-cash-


flow growth. Price target: $54.


Royal Dutch Shell• NYSE-RDS/A


Market Perform • $55.89 on Sept. 5


by Cowen


We are downgrading Royal Dutch Shell


from Outperform to Market Perform, re-


ducing our price target from $69 to $60.


RDS has peer-leading exposure to interna-


tional gas prices; lower forecast prices


through year-end 2020 could limit FCF


[free cash flow] growth. Cash generation


through 2020 post-divestments could fall


$8 billion short of shareholder returns, with


dividend increase unlikely before 2021.


Weak international gas prices could


persist through at least 2020, weighing on


RDS’ results, given its peer-leading expo-


sure at 30% upstream production. The


stock has been flat, year to date, on a to-


tal-return basis, in line with its European


peers and modestly worse than the U.S.


integrated oil group. Its 6.7% dividend


yield compares with a 5.2% average since


2000 and a 6% average since 2010, imply-


ing limited compensation for its $10 billion


a year repurchase program. The company


doesn’t expect to increase its dividend un-


til after completing the program by year-


end 2020. We see stable, $15 billion annual


FCF through 2021, after factoring in our


updated gas prices and assuming $60


Brent, resulting in a net cash outflow of


$8 billion post-divestments to fund the re-


purchase program through 2020.


Apple• AAPL-Nasdaq


Overweight • Price $209.19 on Sept. 5


by Piper Jaffray


We expect Apple to ship 5G iPhones in


second-half of 2020. While early to be talk-


ing about devices that will not hit the mar-


ket for over a year, the 5G iPhone’s inte-


gration into the investor narrative around


Apple shares has already begun. Our sec-


ond survey of more than 1,000 U.S. iPhone


owners shows that 23% are interested in


purchasing a 5G iPhone, up from 18% in


our June 2019 survey. We see this as a


high level of interest, given limited 5G


marketing/chatter to date and the high


price point suggested in our survey. Look-


ing at the remainder of fiscal year 2019,


we expect limited excitement around this


year’s iPhones (to be announced on Sept.


10), however, as long as services and non-


iPhone devices continue to perform well,


this should tide investors over until antici-


pation for 5G iPhones intensifies. We are


maintaining our Overweight rating and


$243 price target.


The last “major” iPhone cycle was the


6 Plus, which drove 52% Y/Y iPhone reve-


nue growth in fiscal-year 2015; even the


Nov. 17 release of the iPhone X drove 17%


growth in fiscal 2018. The launch of 5G


iPhones (enabling materially faster data


transfer) should drive upgrades, especially


as the 5G infrastructure improves and


apps leveraging 5G permeate the App


store. We are conservatively modeling 2%


Y/Y iPhone revenue growth in fiscal year


2021 (in line with consensus).


Kraft Heinz• KHC-Nasdaq


Underperform • $25.52 on Sept. 3


by Credit Suisse


Kraft Heinz’s new CEO, Miguel Patricio,


hosted a meeting today with sell-side


research analysts to hear their perspective


and provide some more color on his ap-


proach for developing a multiyear turn-


around plan for the company. Personality-


wise, Patricio is the type of CEO we like to


meet: humble, good-humored, and eager to


listen—but also strategic and assertive.


However, we didn’t hear anything to alter


our concern about the significant challenges


facing the company longer term and the


likelihood of a dividend cut in the near term.


Fitch and Standard & Poor’s have re-


duced their outlooks on Kraft and issued


warnings that if the company’s Ebitda


stays at $6 billion, it will need to make sig-


nificant asset sales to pay down debt and/


or cut its dividend in order to meet their


thresholds for an investment-grade rating.


Patricio’s decision to pause asset sales


while withdrawing Ebitda guidance was


the primary catalyst for the outlook revi-


sions. Price target: $23.


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Ratio of Insiders Sales to Buys. Readings under 12:1 are Bullish. Those over 20:1 are Bearish.


The total top20 sales and buys are 347, 036 ,175 and 29, 466 ,421 respectively; Source: Thomson Reuters


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INSIDER TRANSACTIONS: Recent Filings


Purchases


$Val
Company/Symbol Insiders Shares (000's)

Pvh PVH 1 133,155 9,986
Coty COTY 2 312,000 2,976

NewMediaInvestment NEWM 3 295,000 2,589
CommunityHealthSystems CYH 1 1,200,000 2,382

EastWestBancorp EWBC 7 44,440 1,727

LibertyLatinAmerica LILAK 1 81,407 1,304
ProspectCapital PSEC 1 201,548 1,288
Intra-CellularTherapies ITCI 1 125,000 1,065

VtvTherapeutics VTVT 1 606,061 776

Intel INTC 2 16,376 748

Cannae CNNE 1 20,000 570

Corteva CTVA 1 18,393 552
Abbvie ABBV 1 7,525 498

SallyBeauty SBH 1 40,500 495

HorizonGlobal HZN 1 120,293 473

Unitedhealth UNH 1 2,000 455

UsXpressEnterprises USX 3 104,177 441
EldoradoResorts ERI 2 12,000 440
StateStreet STT 1 7,000 353

ApellisPharmaceuticals APLS 1 11,699 348

Sales


$ Val
Company/Symbol Insiders Shares (000's)

Anterix ATEX 1 1,000,000 43,500
Oracle ORCL 1 787,500 40,793
ConstellationBrands STZ 2 189,018 38,666

TandemDiabetesCare TNDM 3 410,297 28,921

IacInteractivecorp IAC 2 112,402 28,547

NovocureLtd NVCR 3 246,181 22,424

AutomaticDataProcessing ADP 8 117,125 19,672
WecEnergy WEC 2 153,115 14,732

TylerTechnologies TYL 2 55,592 14,261

RestaurantBrandsInternational QSR 3 164,072 12,744

Facebook FB 2 67,267 12,291

BurlingtonStores BURL 1 50,000 10,084
FairIsaac FICO 2 25,000 8,784
RepublicServices RSG 1 95,126 8,561

DellTechnologies DELL 1 167,275 8,559

EsteeLauderCos EL 3 38,158 7,678
Salesforce.Com CRM 5 47,647 7,388

OsiSystems OSIS 3 64,963 6,877
NexteraEnergy NEE 2 28,737 6,420

AirLease AL 2 150,106 6,135

Aninsiderisanyofficer,directororownerof10%ormoreofaclassofacompany'ssecurities.Inmostcases,aninsidermustreportanytradeto
theSECwithintwobusinessdays.ThetableshighlightcompaniesthatfiledwiththeSECthroughlastWednesday.Thetablesdonotinclude
pension-planoremployeestock-optionactivity,tradesbybeneficialownersof10%ormore,tradesunder$2pershareortradesunder100
shares.The"Purchases"columnincludesonlyopen-marketandprivatepurchases;the"Sales"columnincludesonlyopen-marketandprivatesales,
andexcludestradesprecededbyoptionexerciseinthe12monthspriortothereportedevent. Source:ThomsonReuters
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