{"id":652547,"date":"2013-04-15T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=158312"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:43:26","slug":"j-p-morgan-upgrades-htc-to-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652547","title":{"rendered":"J.P. Morgan upgrades HTC to \u201cneutral\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/reviews\/phone\/htc-one-vx-quick-review-the-best-features-from-the-one-series-at-a-bargain-price\/htc_one_vx_back_htc_logo_ta\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-152109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152109\" alt=\"HTC_One_VX_Back_HTC_Logo_TA\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/HTC_One_VX_Back_HTC_Logo_TA-630x354.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember last week when we told you about HTC&#8217;s\u00a0disappointing<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/157491-htc-profits-continue-in-wrong-direction-in-record-setting-fashion\/\" >\u00a0Q1 earnings report<\/a>? Well it looks like HTC may have pulled off the\u00a0turnaround they were hoping for. J.P. Morgan\u00a0Securities\u00a0upgraded HTC&#8217;s stock to &#8220;neutral&#8221; from &#8220;underweight&#8221;.\u00a0 They also raised the target price from NT$160 to NT$330 due to the sales of their new Flagship Phone, the<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/158217-att-htc-one-bootloader-unlocked-via-htc-dev-rooted-cwm-recovery-installed\/\" > HTC One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HTC needed to kick into high gear, and it appears they know that too.\u00a0Over the last two weeks HTC&#8217;s supply issues\u00a0<i>&#8220;have significantly improved&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0according to Alvin Kwock, J.P. Morgan analyst.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-158312\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With new vendor qualification, HTC One shipments will continue to improve.\u00a0March estimates for the HTC One were 300,000 units, but would raise to 1.2 million in April, and 2 Million in May. These numbers could help\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">HTC&#8217;s Q2 earnings climb to over 50 percent from their Q1 earnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HTC might be back on the right track now, but they still have a long uphill battle against companies like <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/158176-tablets-continue-to-grow-at-an-enormous-pace-with-samsung-and-amazon-tablets-leading-the-way\/\" >Samsung. HTC lost lot of ground, after the <\/a><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/112141-u-s-customs-investigation-delays-launch-of-sprint-htc-evo-4g-lte\/\" >HTC EVO 4G LTE<\/a> was delayed in some markets.<\/p>\n<p>As always we will keep a close eye on HTC and will update you on all the important information you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffocustaiwan.tw%2Fnews%2Fast%2F201304140003.aspx&#038;sref=rss\" >Focus Taiwan<\/a><br \/>\nVia: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phonearena.com%2Fnews%2FFinancial-analyst-says-HTC-One-is-a-mini-turnaround-upgrades-HTC-stock_id41902&#038;sref=rss\" >Phone Arena<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/158312-j-p-morgan-upgrades-htc-to-neutral\/\">J.P. Morgan upgrades HTC to &#8220;neutral&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/FT2N9vzAKUw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember last week when we told you about HTC&#8217;s\u00a0disappointing\u00a0Q1 earnings report? Well it looks like HTC may have pulled off the\u00a0turnaround they were hoping for. J.P. Morgan\u00a0Securities\u00a0upgraded HTC&#8217;s stock to &#8220;neutral&#8221; from &#8220;underweight&#8221;.\u00a0 They also raised the target price from NT$160 to NT$330 due to the sales of their new Flagship Phone, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}