Cree News

Cree was downgraded by investment analysts at CLSA from an "outperform" rating to an "underperform" rating in a note issued to investors on Monday.

Check out the article here to see if you agree with that thesis. Cree is a Durham-based semiconductor company whose stock posted strong gains in January .

Veeco Instruments Inc. A posted a decrease in profit as revenue declined.A Net income for the semiconductor equipment and materials company fell to $20.3 million vs.

Twice the lumens/dollar of other LEDs and the highest performance and efficacy are offered by the XT-E SiC-based LEDs, following the recently released SiC XB-D LEDs.

Cree, Inc. , a market leader in LED lighting, today announced it will webcast its presentation at four upcoming events.

Cree, Inc. , a market leader in silicon carbide power devices, has introduced a series of packaged diodes that deliver the industry's highest blocking voltage available in SiC Schottky technology.

Cree stock closed at $25.43 on Jan. 31. That was a 15 percent increase from its close at $22.04 on Dec.

The company says there will be more than 7 billion mobile devices across the world in about three years and more than 50 billion devices available to be connected to the Internet by 2020.

Cree was downgraded by research analysts at Ticonderoga from a "buy" rating to a "neutral" rating in a report issued on Monday.

Equities research analysts at Goldman Sachs cut their price target on shares of Cree to $36.00 in a research note issued to investors on Monday.

Issues defined as "growth stocks" have a number of common traits, but the most important is that their earnings are expected to grow at a faster pace than the broader market over a period of time.

Sterne Agee on Wednesday issued an analyst report on the LED industry that was designed to separate what he called potential head fakes from the real deals.

Back in October 2010, we wrote about a startup called Goodzer Inc. , which at that point was pretty much just two co-founders, some seed funding and a prototype.

The Durham-based manufacturer's $1,012,000 involvement represents the first two phases in a four-phase project, Asheville's Energy Coordinator Maggie Ullman said.

Cree 's stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by analysts at Jefferies Group in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday.

Among the stocks that could see active trade in Wednesday's session are Cree Inc., Linear Technology Corp.

BY LAURA OLENIACZloleniacz@heraldsun.comDURHAM - Cree Inc., the Durham-based LED lighting products maker, reported earnings for the second quarter of the fiscal year that were down about 76 percent from what they were in the period last year.The company's earnings were $12.1 million in the quarter, according to a news release issued Tuesday.

BancorpSouth Inc. : The holding company for BancorpSouth Bank reported fourth-quarter earnings excluding some items of 16 cents a share, beating the average analyst estimate of 13 cents.

Cree, Inc. - U.S. stocks are in rally mode today as better-than-expected economic data out of China seemed to trump concerns following the myriad of downgrades of euro-zone states announced by Standard & Poor's at the end of last week.

U.S. President Barack Obama tours a North Carolina manufacturing facility of energy efficient LED lights, Cree Inc., in Raleigh-Durham, June 13, 2011.