Notable Downgrades: Take-Two Interactive (TTWO), Yelp Inc. (YELP), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Petrobras (PBR), Chevron (CVX)

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (TTWO) was reiterated a ‘Buy’ by The Benchmark Company analysts on Monday. The broker however, cut its price target on the stock to $31.29 from $34.99.

On valuation measures, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. stock it’s trading at a forward P/E multiple of 18.88x. The t-12-month revenue at Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. is $978.06 million. TTWO ‘s ROE for the same period is (8.24%).

Shares of the $2.05 billion market cap company are up 31.26% year-over-year ; down 11.92% year-to-date.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., currently with a median Wall Street price target of $35.00 and a high target of $40.00, dropped $0.36 to $24.3351 in recent trading.

The chart below shows where the equity has traded over the past 52-weeks.

Yelp Inc. (YELP) was downgraded from ‘Overweight‘ to ‘Neutral‘ and the price target was cut to $46 from $70 at Piper Jaffray.

Shares have traded today between $45.50 and $46.55 with the price of the stock fluctuating between $37.91 to $86.88 over the last 52 weeks.

Yelp Inc. shares are currently changing hands at 94.46x this year’s forecasted earnings, compared to the industry’s 21.48x earnings multiple. Ticker has a t-12 price/sales ratio of 8.36. EPS for the same period registers at $0.49.

Shares of YELP have lost $0.63 to $46.26 in mid-day trading on Monday, giving it a market cap of roughly $3.50 billion. The stock traded as high as $86.88 in September 3, 2014.

Goldman (GS) reported on Monday that they have lowered their rating for Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS). The firm has downgraded LVS from ‘Buy‘ to ‘Neutral’.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. recently traded at $50.46, a loss of $0.51 over Friday’s closing price. The name has a current market cap – the value of all of the shares of its stock- of $40.30 billion.

As for passive income investors, the company pays shareholders $2.60 per share annually in dividends, yielding 5.00%.

Petrobras (PBR) had its rating lowered from ‘Neutral‘ to ‘Sell‘ by analysts at Goldman Sachs (GS) on Monday.

PBR was down $0.48 at $9.65 in mid-day trade, moving within a 52-week range of $4.90 to $20.94. The name, valued at $62.94 billion, opened at $10.39.

On valuation measures, Petrobas shares have a t-12 price/sales ratio of 0.58. EPS for the same period is ($1.11).

Chevron Corporation (CVX) was downgraded by Goldman (GS) from a ‘Neutral‘ rating to a ‘Sell‘ rating in a research report issued to clients on Monday.

CVX closed at $108.03 on Friday and is currently trading down $1.37.

In the past 52 weeks, shares of San Ramon, California-based company have traded between a low of $98.88 and a high of $135.10 and are now trading at $106.66. Shares are down 9.42% year-over-year and 1.78% year-to-date.

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