Oppenheimer Gives a Buy Rating to Carlyle Group (CG)


Oppenheimer analyst Chris Kotowski assigned a Buy rating to Carlyle Group (CG) today and set a price target of $48.00. The company’s shares closed last Wednesday at $42.52, close to its 52-week high of $42.64.

According to TipRanks.com, Kotowski is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 18.4% and a 69.6% success rate. Kotowski covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Apollo Global Management, Focus Financial Partners, and Solar Senior Capital.

Currently, the analyst consensus on Carlyle Group is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $41.83.

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The company has a one-year high of $42.64 and a one-year low of $21.36. Currently, Carlyle Group has an average volume of 1.49M.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 29 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 CG in relation to earlier this year.

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The Carlyle Group, Inc. engages in a multi-product global alternative asset management. It operates though the following segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit, and Investment Solutions. The Corporate Private Equity segment focuses on buyout, and growth capital funds which pursue a variety of corporate investments of different sizes and growth potentials. The Real Estate segment consists of real estate, infrastructure and energy, and natural resources. The Global Credit segment includes leveraged loans and structured credit, energy mezzanine opportunities, middle market lending, and distressed debt. The Investment Solutions segment provides comprehensive investment opportunities and resources for the investors, and clients to build private equity, and real estate portfolios through funds of funds, secondary purchases of existing portfolios, and managed co-investment programs. The company was founded by William E. Conway Jr., Daniel A. D’Aniello and David M. Rubenstein in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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