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Business Insider
26-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Goldman Sachs Remains a Buy on Nestlé SA (NSRGF)
In a report released yesterday, Olivier Nicolai from Goldman Sachs reiterated a Buy rating on Nestlé SA, with a price target of CHF92.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at $90.99. 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. Nicolai covers the Consumer Defensive sector, focusing on stocks such as Nestlé SA, Reckitt, and Diageo. According to TipRanks, Nicolai has an average return of 3.9% and a 53.89% success rate on recommended stocks. In addition to Goldman Sachs, Nestlé SA also received a Buy from DZ BANK AG's Axel Herlinghaus in a report issued on July 24. However, yesterday, Barclays maintained a Hold rating on Nestlé SA (Other OTC: NSRGF). Based on Nestlé SA's latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $46.49 billion and a net profit of $5.24 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $46.71 billion and had a net profit of $5.56 billion Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 10 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of NSRGF in relation to earlier this year.
Powys County Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Powys County Times
Identical twins Rasmus and Nicolai Hojgaard shine on day two at Royal Portrush
Danish identical twins Rasmus and Nicolai Hojgaard made it a family affair on day two of The Open after both shooting under par to sit inside the top 10. Rasmus, younger by a couple of minutes, carded a 68 which was one better than his sibling and lifted him to the group on five under. Nicolai is one back in a tie for 10th. 'It's cool to see Ras playing well this week. I saw him quite early on the leaderboard, and I kind of wanted to follow it up,' said Nicolai. 🇩🇰 T5 – Rasmus Højgaard🇩🇰 T10 – Nicolai Højgaard An incredible opening two rounds from both the Højgaard twins in Portrush 🤩 #TheOpen — DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) July 18, 2025 'A little frustrated I didn't manage to get to minus five where he is. I felt like the round had potential. 'I cheer him on and am happy to see him play well, but I also want to beat him. But it's a good relationship and hopefully we'll have a good weekend and maybe battle it out on Sunday. 'We couldn't handle each other's success when we were younger, but we can do that now and support each other and get motivated by each other. When you get older, you get slightly more mature.' They were the first twins to appear at the Masters in April, the 24-year-olds arriving at their pre-tournament news conference dressed identically – although they insisted that was a random coincidence. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Open (@theopen) World number 70 Rasmus has five DP World Tour wins, Nicolai, ranked 93, has three – but is a Ryder Cup winner after success in Rome two years ago and now plays on the PGA Tour. Rasmus also wants his brother to do well – until the closing stages of the final round. He added: 'I'm going to root for him until we are on Sunday back nine.'
USA Today
18-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Nicolai Hojgaard honored a commitment that nearly kept him out of the 2025 British Open
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – The battle for low-Hojgaard is shaping up to be one of the stories of the week at the 153rd British Open. Rasmus shot 3-under 68 at Royal Portrush Golf Club on Friday to beat his twin brother Nicolai by a stroke. 'It's cool to see Ras playing well this week,' said Nicolai, who shot 69 to sit at 4-under 138. 'I saw him quite early on the leaderboard, and I kind of wanted to follow it up. A little frustrated I didn't manage to get to 5 (under) where he is. I felt like the round had potential. But yeah, happy for him.' Nicolai is just happy to be in the 156-man field. He shot a final-round 64 at the Genesis Scottish Open to finish T-4 and grab one of the final three shots into the Open. With his best finish of the year, he snuck in after skipping Final Qualifying, which was held at several sites on July 1. There was only one problem: Nicolai had previously committed to a junior clinic that day that he and Rasmus were hosting back home in Denmark at Great Northern Resort. "We've been on the national team since we were 12-13 years old and got a lot of help from the coaches and staff. It was an amazing time," Rasmus said. "We had been talking for a while that we wanted to do something for junior golf in Denmark. It was very important for us to be there." All told, 108 junior golfers participated in the golf day, which pitted the Hojgaards vs Team Denmark. It's a noble gesture of Nicolai to give back and do his part to grow the game first over a chance to play in a major, especially in a Ryder Cup year when he has work to do if he's going to make the European 12-man team. 'It shows his true colors,' Rasmus said. Asked if he considered bowing out — surely the junior golfers would have been disappointed but understood — Nicolai told Golfweek, 'It was a pretty easy decision for me. I kept my word. I made a commitment a year ago. It's not that many years we were in the same position looking up to our idols at a DP World Tour event at home. Really cool to give back and see kids being happy. Sometimes it's a better feeling than to play good golf.' The Hojgaard twins, who are 24, started playing the game of golf when they were four years old. They shot to prominence when they teamed up with John Axelsen, leading Denmark to win the 2018 Eisenhower Trophy at the World Amateur Team Championship. Nicolai and Rasmus made a birdie on the 72nd hole to edge the favored United States team, including Collin Morikawa, by just one shot. On paper, Nicolai, No. 93 in the Official World Golf Ranking, was individually the more successful of the twins during their amateur careers. Reaching No. 5 in the world at just 17 years old, he won the European Amateur Championship at the Royal Hague Golf & Country Club and played in the 2018 Open Championship at Carnoustie. He turned pro the following year and has notched three DP World Tour wins. But Nicolai, who was a captain's pick for the 2023 European Ryder Cup team, hasn't tasted victory since 2023. Rasmus, No. 76 in the world, was the first player born in the 2000s to win on the European Tour. He won in only his fifth European Tour start and became the third-youngest winner in Tour history (18 years, 271 days). They are both seeking their first PGA Tour title, but came close in April, teaming to finish second at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, one shot back of the winning team of Ben Griffin and Andrew Novak. Both are in the trophy hunt for the coveted Claret Jug at the midway point at Portrush. They had some tense battles as amateurs, battling it out in playoffs, and struggled with sibling rivalry. 'Back then, we couldn't handle those situations. We can do that now,' Nicolai said. 'Let's see what happens this weekend. Hopefull,y we'll get a chance to play with each other.' Rasmus may have put it best. 'I'm going to root for him until we are on Sunday back nine.'
Winnipeg Free Press
18-07-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Hojgaard twins in top 10 at British Open for another cool sight at Royal Portrush
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Nicolai Hojgaard remembers his amateur days when things got tense during a playoff with his twin brother Rasmus. 'Back then we couldn't handle those situations,' he said. Now they're feeding off them. Adding to the many cool sights at Royal Portrush's historic links this week was the British Open leaderboard on Friday showing 24-year-old Danish twins pretty much next to each other. Rasmus tied for fifth. Nicolai tied for 10th, a stroke back. And they both have designs on lifting the claret jug. 'Hopefully we'll have a good weekend,' Nicolai said, 'and maybe battle it out on Sunday.' The Hojgaard brothers — who, in 2023, became the first twins to play at golf's oldest championship — have been pretty much inseparable since they turned pro in 2019, having first hit a golf ball at the age of 4. They were soon champions on the European tour, even winning on consecutive weeks in August-September 2021 — another first on the tour for a pair of brothers. Since last year, they have both had cards to play on the PGA Tour. In fact, don't put it past them to be teaming up at the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in September. 'We couldn't handle each other's success when we were younger,' Nicolai said, 'but we can do that now and support each other and get motivated by each other. When you get older, you get slightly more mature.' The big question now is who will be the first to win a major title? And will it happen this week? 'I'm going to root for him,' Rasmus said, 'until we are on Sunday, back nine.' Rasmus has a one-shot advantage over his brother and also the positive experience of a big links victory in Ireland last year, when he birdied his last three holes to win the Irish Open at the expense of Rory McIlroy at Royal County Down. Nicolai has a better Open record, though, making the cut three times and having a best finish of tied for 23rd at Hoylake in 2023. Rasmus has got to the weekend once, tying for 60th at Royal Troon last year. Keegan and the Ryder Cup U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley already was in the conversation to be the first playing captain since 1963 when he won the Travelers Championship last month. And then he shot 67 to stay in the mix at the British Open. Points are worth one-and-a-half in the majors (one point equals $1,000). Bradley is No. 9 in the U.S. standings with the top six qualifying, and then he has six captain's picks. One of them could be him. 'I'm going to look at myself as just another player,' Bradley said. 'We have to look at every single possibility, just like we'd look at any other player in my position. Anybody in the top 12 or top 15 or top 20, you want to look at the player that's playing the best.' The PGA Tour has two regular tournaments left and then two $20 million playoff events before the end of qualifying. The picks are made after the Tour Championship ends on Aug. 24. 'If I continue my play, then we'll talk about this,' Bradley said. 'But you never know how this golf thing is.' No more amateurs There will be no silver medal handed out on the 18th green at Royal Portrush on Sunday. Nine amateurs started out on Thursday and all are headed home. That hasn't happened at a completed Open Championship since 2019. To win the silver medal for low amateur, a player must complete 72 holes. The best-placed amateur in the 156-player field was Ethan Fang, an American who shot 75-70 to finish on 3-over par. Extended stay Chris Gotterup might have thought he'd be in the British Isles for only a week when he came over for the Scottish Open, the warmup event for the Open Championship. The American wound up outlasting Rory McIlroy to win in North Berwick on Sunday for his second PGA Tour title, securing a spot in the field at Royal Portrush in the process. Gotterup is sticking around for the weekend there, too, with a second-round 65 lifting him to fifth place. He was flying solo in Scotland last week and his parents have since come over to watch his British Open debut. His girlfriend was thinking of coming over but it didn't work out. 'I feel like if I had a ton of people here, it's always fun, but it just drains you a little bit with entertaining,' he said. Gotterup wasn't allowing himself to think of winning again. 'I felt like I was playing with house money coming into the weekend, or into the week in general,' he said. 'I'm happy to be where I'm at.' The imperfect 10 Shaun Norris of South Africa played some reasonable golf on Friday. He had four birdies against only two bogeys. He made 11 pars. Unfortunately for Norris, that only adds up to 17 holes. The other hole was a 10 on the par-4 fourth hole. 'One hole killed me today, so it was a fight there on in,' Norris said after a hard-earned 75. Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. Here's the quick summary: A drive out-of-bounds. A third shot into a fairway bunker. Four shots to get out of the pot bunker. An approach that missed the green. A chip. And a 7-foot putt to save sextuple-bogey 10. 'I hit a very poor tee shot, the first one,' he said. 'Then proceeded to hit the next one straight in the bunker. Now I'm trying to chase something, trying to make the best score out of it. Unfortunately, the fourth shot caught the lip, then stuck with the same club and tried to do the same. 'After that, the mind sort of went a little bit numb. But it happens. Golf is golf. There's nothing you can do about it. Made a number, and I had to accept it and carry on.' ___ AP golf:
Hamilton Spectator
18-07-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Hojgaard twins in top 10 at British Open for another cool sight at Royal Portrush
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Nicolai Hojgaard remembers his amateur days when things got tense during a playoff with his twin brother Rasmus. 'Back then we couldn't handle those situations,' he said. Now they're feeding off them. Adding to the many cool sights at Royal Portrush's historic links this week was the British Open leaderboard on Friday showing 24-year-old Danish twins pretty much next to each other. Rasmus tied for fifth. Nicolai tied for 10th, a stroke back. And they both have designs on lifting the claret jug. 'Hopefully we'll have a good weekend,' Nicolai said, 'and maybe battle it out on Sunday.' The Hojgaard brothers — who, in 2023, became the first twins to play at golf's oldest championship — have been pretty much inseparable since they turned pro in 2019, having first hit a golf ball at the age of 4. They were soon champions on the European tour, even winning on consecutive weeks in August-September 2021 — another first on the tour for a pair of brothers. Since last year, they have both had cards to play on the PGA Tour. In fact, don't put it past them to be teaming up at the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in September. 'We couldn't handle each other's success when we were younger,' Nicolai said, 'but we can do that now and support each other and get motivated by each other. When you get older, you get slightly more mature.' The big question now is who will be the first to win a major title? And will it happen this week? 'I'm going to root for him,' Rasmus said, 'until we are on Sunday, back nine.' Rasmus has a one-shot advantage over his brother and also the positive experience of a big links victory in Ireland last year, when he birdied his last three holes to win the Irish Open at the expense of Rory McIlroy at Royal County Down. Nicolai has a better Open record, though, making the cut three times and having a best finish of tied for 23rd at Hoylake in 2023. Rasmus has got to the weekend once, tying for 60th at Royal Troon last year. Keegan and the Ryder Cup U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley already was in the conversation to be the first playing captain since 1963 when he won the Travelers Championship last month. And then he shot 67 to stay in the mix at the British Open. Points are worth one-and-a-half in the majors (one point equals $1,000). Bradley is No. 9 in the U.S. standings with the top six qualifying, and then he has six captain's picks. One of them could be him. 'I'm going to look at myself as just another player,' Bradley said. 'We have to look at every single possibility, just like we'd look at any other player in my position. Anybody in the top 12 or top 15 or top 20, you want to look at the player that's playing the best.' The PGA Tour has two regular tournaments left and then two $20 million playoff events before the end of qualifying. The picks are made after the Tour Championship ends on Aug. 24. 'If I continue my play, then we'll talk about this,' Bradley said. 'But you never know how this golf thing is.' No more amateurs There will be no silver medal handed out on the 18th green at Royal Portrush on Sunday. Nine amateurs started out on Thursday and all are headed home. That hasn't happened at a completed Open Championship since 2019. To win the silver medal for low amateur, a player must complete 72 holes. The best-placed amateur in the 156-player field was Ethan Fang, an American who shot 75-70 to finish on 3-over par. Extended stay Chris Gotterup might have thought he'd be in the British Isles for only a week when he came over for the Scottish Open, the warmup event for the Open Championship. The American wound up outlasting Rory McIlroy to win in North Berwick on Sunday for his second PGA Tour title, securing a spot in the field at Royal Portrush in the process. Gotterup is sticking around for the weekend there, too, with a second-round 65 lifting him to fifth place. He was flying solo in Scotland last week and his parents have since come over to watch his British Open debut. His girlfriend was thinking of coming over but it didn't work out. 'I feel like if I had a ton of people here, it's always fun, but it just drains you a little bit with entertaining,' he said. Gotterup wasn't allowing himself to think of winning again. 'I felt like I was playing with house money coming into the weekend, or into the week in general,' he said. 'I'm happy to be where I'm at.' The imperfect 10 Shaun Norris of South Africa played some reasonable golf on Friday. He had four birdies against only two bogeys. He made 11 pars. Unfortunately for Norris, that only adds up to 17 holes. The other hole was a 10 on the par-4 fourth hole. 'One hole killed me today, so it was a fight there on in,' Norris said after a hard-earned 75. Here's the quick summary: A drive out-of-bounds. A third shot into a fairway bunker. Four shots to get out of the pot bunker. An approach that missed the green. A chip. And a 7-foot putt to save sextuple-bogey 10. 'I hit a very poor tee shot, the first one,' he said. 'Then proceeded to hit the next one straight in the bunker. Now I'm trying to chase something, trying to make the best score out of it. Unfortunately, the fourth shot caught the lip, then stuck with the same club and tried to do the same. 'After that, the mind sort of went a little bit numb. But it happens. Golf is golf. There's nothing you can do about it. Made a number, and I had to accept it and carry on.' ___ AP golf:
