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Business Insider
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Kepler Capital Remains a Buy on Novo Nordisk (0QIU)
In a report released on July 17, David Evans from Kepler Capital maintained a Buy rating on Novo Nordisk, with a price target of DKK630.00. The company's shares closed last Thursday at DKK427.20. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. Evans covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Novo Nordisk, Novartis AG, and Roche Holding AG. According to TipRanks, Evans has an average return of -0.1% and a 53.96% success rate on recommended stocks. Currently, the analyst consensus on Novo Nordisk is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of DKK595.83, which is a 39.47% upside from current levels. In a report released yesterday, Deutsche Bank also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a DKK750.00 price target. 0QIU market cap is currently DKK1924.8B and has a P/E ratio of 18.19. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 31 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of 0QIU in relation to earlier this year.
Business Insider
16-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Kepler Capital Sticks to Their Buy Rating for Novartis AG (NOVN)
Kepler Capital analyst David Evans maintained a Buy rating on Novartis AG on July 14 and set a price target of CHF106.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at CHF96.06. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. According to TipRanks, Evans is a 2-star analyst with an average return of 0.1% and a 55.72% success rate. Evans covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Roche Holding AG, Novartis AG, and Novo Nordisk. Novartis AG has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of CHF102.20, a 6.39% upside from current levels. In a report released on July 4, Deutsche Bank also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a CHF115.00 price target. Based on Novartis AG's latest earnings release for the quarter ending March 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of CHF13.62 billion and a net profit of CHF3.61 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of CHF12.12 billion and had a net profit of CHF2.69 billion
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Yahoo
Woman completes 200-mile challenge on 100th birthday
A woman says she "had a ball" completing a 200-mile (322km) walking challenge in her hundredth year. Phyll Babb, from Salisbury in Wiltshire, reached the finish line on Sunday, her 100th birthday, raising more than £11,000 for Salisbury Trust for the Homeless (STFH). She had planned to walk 100 miles (161km), but doubled her target in January after realising she was ahead of schedule. Completing the final mile around Salisbury Cathedral, Ms Babb said: "It's hard to believe I've done 200 walks. It's gone like a dream." Ms Babb was born in Bideford, north Devon, and travelled alone by sea to Jamaica in 1949 so that she could teach in a girls' grammar school for three years. After a brief spell in England, she headed to Vancouver in Canada before returning to the UK to look after her disabled mother. She was a keen member of the local yacht club before retiring in 1986, when she started volunteering. "Walking is good for you," she said. "I was brought up to walk, so as children we walked everywhere, and I still like walking." She added: "It's been delightful. I've had a ball actually." More news stories for Wiltshire Listen to the latest news for Wiltshire Ms Babb was cheered on by members of her family, who said she was an inspiration. Her cousin-in-law, David Evans, said: "To reach the age of 100 and to do it so fit, looking so well, being so articulate, that's the really amazing thing she's done." "She is inspirational, definitely. She's been inspirational my whole life, to be honest," Liz Huntley, Ms Babb's cousin, said. And her great niece, Ruth Simmons, said: "Seeing my great aunt complete her 200th lap around the cathedral has been really special." A local accountant and supporter of the charity had helped Ms Babb log her walks. "He looked at every 20 walks I did, which I recorded on Strava on my mobile phone, and then he confirmed them in a little book," she said. STFH supports single homeless people, the charity's head of fundraising, Gordon Pardy, said they were delighted to receive the cheque from Ms Babb. "We bought a house recently, and so the money that Phyll has raised will go towards furnishing the house," he said. "To do this in her 100th year was so impressive," he added. Ms Babb said people had been "extremely generous" and said "thank you all very, very much". Follow BBC Wiltshire on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630. 'Inspiring' woman, 99, to walk 200 miles for charity Woman, 99, midway in 100-mile charity walk Woman, 99, to walk 100 miles for charity Salisbury Trust for the Homeless
Business Insider
12-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Kepler Capital Remains a Buy on Roche Holding AG (RHHVF)
In a report released on July 10, David Evans from Kepler Capital maintained a Buy rating on Roche Holding AG, with a price target of CHF315.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at $324.49. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. According to TipRanks, Evans is a 2-star analyst with an average return of 0.4% and a 57.00% success rate. Evans covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Roche Holding AG, Novo Nordisk, and Novartis AG. Currently, the analyst consensus on Roche Holding AG is a Hold with an average price target of $358.94, a 10.62% upside from current levels. In a report released on July 10, UBS also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a CHF314.00 price target.
The Independent
10-07-2025
- Science
- The Independent
Scientists discover the ‘missing link' that causes giant volcanic eruptions
Volcanic eruptions at Earth's surface have significant consequences. Smaller ones can scare tourists on Mount Etna or disrupt air traffic. Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Giant volcanoes also triggered events that led to the largest mass dying on Earth, the Permian–Triassic extinction 252 million years ago But what fuels a giant eruption, and how does it make its way to the surface from deep within the planet? In a new study published in Communications Earth and Environment, we show that columns of hot rock, which rise some 3,000 kilometres through Earth's mantle and cause giant eruptions, are connected to continent-sized source regions we call BLOBS. Hidden blobs within Earth BLOBS are hot regions at the bottom of Earth's mantle (between about 2,000km and 3,000km in depth) which might be composed of different material compared with the surrounding mantle rocks. Scientists have long known about these two hot regions under the Pacific Ocean and Africa. Geologist David Evans from Yale University suggested the acronym BLOBS, which stands for Big LOwer-mantle Basal Structures. These BLOBS have possibly existed for hundreds of millions of years. It is unclear whether they're stationary or if they move around as part of mantle motion (called convection). Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit like a lollipop: the 'stick' is the plume tail and the 'candy' is the plume head. Mantle plumes rise very slowly through the mantle because they transport hot solid rock, not melt or lava. At lower pressures in the uppermost 200km of Earth's mantle, the solid rock melts, leading to eruptions. A long-sought relationship In our new study, we simulated mantle convection from one billion years ago and found that mantle plumes rise from moving BLOBS and can sometimes be gently tilted. Giant volcanic eruptions can be identified by the volume of volcanic rocks preserved at Earth's surface. The ocean floor preserves detailed fingerprints of mantle plumes for the past 120 million years or so (there is not much seafloor older than that). Oceanic plateaus, such as the Ontong Java-Manihiki-Hikurangi plateau currently in the southwest Pacific Ocean, are linked to plume heads. In contrast, a series of volcanoes such as the Hawaii -Emperor seamount chain and the Lord Howe seamount chain are linked to plume tails. We used statistics to show that the locations of past giant volcanic eruptions are significantly related to the mantle plumes predicted by our models. This is encouraging, as it suggests that the simulations predict mantle plumes in places and at times generally consistent with the geologic record. Are BLOBS fixed or mobile? We showed that the considered eruption locations fall either onto or close to the moving BLOBS predicted by our models. Eruption locations slightly outside moving BLOBS could be explained by plume tilting. We represented fixed BLOBS with 3D images of Earth's interior, created using seismic waves from distant earthquakes (a technique called seismic tomography). One out of the four seismic tomographic models that we considered matched the locations of past giant volcanic eruptions, implying that the fixed BLOBS scenario cannot be ruled out for geologically recent times – the past 300 million years. One of the next steps for this research is to explore the chemical nature of BLOBS and plume conduits. We can do so with simulations that track the evolution of their composition. Our results suggest the deep Earth is dynamic. BLOBS, which are some 2,000km below Earth's surface, move hundreds of kilometres over time, and are connected to Earth's surface by mantle plumes that create giant eruptions. To take a step back and keep things in perspective: while deep Earth motions are significant over tens of millions of years, they are generally in the order of 1 centimetre per year. This means BLOBS shift in a year at roughly the rate at which human hair grows each month. Nicolas Flament is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in Environmental Futures, School of Science at the University of Wollongong.
