J.P. Morgan Securities overnight raised its rating on IBM

5:59am 10/05/04
IBM upped, H-P downgraded at JP Morgan (HPQ, IBM)
By Emily Church
LONDON (CBS.MW) -- J.P. Morgan Securities overnight raised its rating on IBM (IBM) to "overweight" and downgraded Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) to "neutral." The ratings changes were "primarily driven by our incrementally more constructive view on IBM's enterprise share gains and margin profile, s well as concerns over the consumer PC and printer segments." Shares in IBM were offered higher and H-P offered lower in London, dealers said, but neither was seeing active trade. The broker told clients it expected an "in-line September quarter" at IBM, adding "but we have become incrementally positive on our fourth quarter and calendar 2005 outlook." on H-P, the analysts said: "HP's current enterprise cost structure does not appear equipped to handle the rapid shift away from proprietary UNIX systems toward lower margin industry standard server."
IBM upped, H-P downgraded at JP Morgan (HPQ, IBM)
By Emily Church
LONDON (CBS.MW) -- J.P. Morgan Securities overnight raised its rating on IBM (IBM) to "overweight" and downgraded Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) to "neutral." The ratings changes were "primarily driven by our incrementally more constructive view on IBM's enterprise share gains and margin profile, s well as concerns over the consumer PC and printer segments." Shares in IBM were offered higher and H-P offered lower in London, dealers said, but neither was seeing active trade. The broker told clients it expected an "in-line September quarter" at IBM, adding "but we have become incrementally positive on our fourth quarter and calendar 2005 outlook." on H-P, the analysts said: "HP's current enterprise cost structure does not appear equipped to handle the rapid shift away from proprietary UNIX systems toward lower margin industry standard server."