-- Prudential Financial (PRU) shares fell 1.4% on Wednesday after Barclays downgraded the stock to underweight from equalweight and cut its price target to $91 per share from $110.
Jefferies also downgraded the stock to hold from buy and cut its price target to $98 per share from $124.
Trading volume stood at over 2.7 million shares compared with a daily average of more than 2.4 million.
Price: $95.26, Change: $-1.20, Percent Change: -1.24%
APA Group (ASX:APA) has raised AU$1.5 billion through AU$1 billion in hybrid subordinated capital securities and AU$500 million in 10-year senior notes to support its ongoing expansion plans, according to a Thursday Australian bourse filing.The hybrid component is split into two 30-year instruments of AU$400 million and AU$600 million, both paying a fixed 6.77% interest rate and callable after 7.5 years, while the senior notes carry a 10-year maturity with a 6.42% interest rate, the filing said.
CFRA, an independent research provider, has providedwith the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows:Following Q1 results, we lower our 12-month target price by $7 to $84, applying a forward P/E of 11.9x our 2027 EPS view, in line with SF's 10-year historical forward P/E average and the peer average. We decrease our 2026 EPS estimate to $6.35 from $6.43 and 2027's to $7.04 from $7.23. Our revenue projections are $6.12B (+10%) in 2026 and $6.74B (+10%) in 2027. Our revision reflects a more cautious outlook despite a strong quarter in which both segments performed well, with the Institutional Group surging 29% Y/Y on record investment banking and Global Wealth Management up 10%. While we remain positive on SF's strong investment banking pipeline, we temper our forecast due to increasing macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, which could affect the timing of future business. Still, the positive margin impact from the recent sale of SIA and the European equities restructuring should provide a structural tailwind to profitability.