Eric Handler

Summer blockbuster movie season is still several months away, but one Wall Street analyst gave investors a sneak preview of what to expect from two popular movie theater stocks on Tuesday. The Analyst MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler reiterated his Buy rating and $47 price target for Cinemark...

Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) shares jumped higher Thursday on a fourth-quarter earnings beat and were continuing the gains Friday. Toy investors were by and large satisfied, but analysts remain divided.  "We have seen turnaround stories in some dead old names," said...

Video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) reported Tuesday afternoon with fiscal third-quarter results that CEO Andrew Wilson acknowledged "did not perform to our expectations." Here's how the Street's analysts reacted to the quarterly print and guidance....

Big toy makers Hasbro Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) and Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) both finished 2018 below expectations, but there are bright spots for the coming year, particularly for Hasbro. The Analyst MKM’s Eric Handler continues to have a Buy rating on Hasbro, but lowered his price target to $102...

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) has been one of the few bright spots for investors in 2018, and one Wall Street analyst said Friday WWE’s big run should continue in 2019. The Analyst MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler reiterated his Buy rating and $95 price target for WWE. The...

Video game maker Electronic Arts, Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) reported second-quarter earnings Tuesday that largely exceeded projections. The Analysts MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler maintained a Buy rating on EA and lowered the price target from $157 to $135. Atlantic Equities analyst Kunaal Malde...

While 2018 has proven a difficult year for the toy industry, Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) is well-positioned for a material fundamental recovery over the coming years, according to MKM Partners.  The Analyst MKM analyst Eric Handler upgraded Hasbro from Neutral to Buy with a price...

A combination of secular headwinds and growth in the international segment, along with a strong free cash flow outlook, could mean Discovery Inc (NASDAQ: DISCA) shares are undervalued. The Analyst Eric Handler of MKM Partners upgraded Discovery from Neutral to Buy and reiterated a $28 price...

Marvel’s "Avengers: Infinity War" blew up the box office again over the weekend with $112.5 million in receipts, making it the fourth film in history to top $100 million in its second weekend. Nonetheless, the Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) film missed MKM Partners' estimates by $5....

Not much to report at the box office this weekend, according to MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler. Handler expects the weekend’s top 10 films to gross $120 million on par with the comparable period from last year. “The lack of growth versus last year is attributable to a lack of...

Last Christmas brought “Fences,” “Hidden Figures” and “20th Century Women,” and the year before that “The Revenant,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Daddy’s Home” and “The Danish Girl.” Both seasons also rode the...

Will “It” kill “mother!” or will “American Assassin” take them both out? Whether the head-to-head horror flicks take top honors or the spy thriller infiltrates moviegoers’ pocketbooks is largely irrelevant: the box office is expected to see its second...

In what he described as a “draconian view,” MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler reiterated a Buy rating on Imax Corp (USA) (NYSE: IMAX) and cut its price target from $40 to $30. The $30 price target still reflects a 41-percent upside from the low-$21 range IMAX shares were trading at...

Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT)'s "ugly" quarter prompted Eric Handler to lower his price target on the toymaker from $27 to $24 while maintaining a Neutral rating. According to Handler, Mattel's revenue and earnings per share shortfall in the first quarter was attributed to a lower level of reorders...

“Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT)'s turnaround story has lost momentum as it pushed up its 4Q earnings release and last night revealed disappointing year-end results,” MKM Partners’ Eric Handler said in a note. The analyst downgraded the rating on the company from Buy to Neutral, while...