but still not stopping sterne agee.t. >>> we also have mohawk industries, raymond james more positive on this stock. it's a carpet maker. >> yes, mohawk, mhk. up, upgrading it to an outperform. here's what you care about. the target goes to 150. that's about 6% up side. not a lot, but still higher than 40, in the same call they also upgraded masco. >> and m trust funds providers of workers' compensation insurance. >>> compass point, upping it to a buy, the target goes to 49. the ticker afsi. very last stock, we should mix it up a bit. monday will be the first stock of the day, maxwell technology. >> san diego-based ultra-capacitors. >> what's that? >> i don't have any idea, but apparently they're not just super, they're ultra-. they appointed a new ceo, roth capital upgrades the company. the target goes to company. so that's about 20% up side for maxwell, mxwl. youer if roast is late to the party, maxwell tech, mandy, up 114% this year already. why didn't we talk about them early? >> that would have been a good party. >

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bmo, sterne agee, jeffries all downgrading shares of whole food, the main concerns being strong competition and how that will impact future profitability. >> down almost 20%. thank you very much, seema. >>> let's get a market flash with sheila. >> seema just mentioned whole foods, but check out the ripple effect it is having, so three our retail grocers are down in simply. take a look at sprouts farmers, fresh market and fairway, all getting hit. by the way, don't forget that sprouts is out with earnings after the bell, but nonetheless a very tough day for these retail grocery stocks. sue? >> sheila, thank you. let's get the trading action. mary thompson, beautiful in her green, and it's a green day. >> at least for the dow and s&p 500. you know what we're seeing today, sue is a little higher than average volume here at the big board as investors are looking -- focusing in on a couple things, first of all buying stocks that have proven earnings and proven dividends this after janet yellen said she's expecting for us to stay in a low rate environment for the foreseeable future. look at the g

carter wirth of sterne agee, steve cortes, actually carter i'm going to start with you on the chart. this is a big technically driven name. >> i think what is most incredible is how does one explain 20 to 40 on to 20 all in five, six months. really what it means is one thing. no one has a clue what it is worth. >> well set. >> one can only say we know it broke trend. you can see that in the well-define trend line drawn, and how the stock has given back basically 50% or more of the preceding advance. it's a case of do nothing. the stock has come down to a point where just buying because it's overdone is speculative, and getting short all the way down here is probably back technique. we think it's probably worth 23.25. >> fundamentally speaking, do you agree it's different to know how much this company is worth? >> of course it's difficult. it always is with new tech companies, but i think right here, do not put pandora in a box. i think this company is very worthy of this price and much higher. the main reason i say that, wall street often freaks out with pandora anytime a new competi

let's dig deeper into the target results, bring in the managing director with stern agee.m ceo but what's on his to do list at this point? >> his to do list is very long and very detailed and i think there is a lot of issues that need to get fixed in the u.s. and in canada. i think in the u.s. the most disappointing statistic that came out of the release this morning was that their task down over 200 basis points on a two-year basis. it's almost as bad as it was in the fourth quarter. red car penetration dropped for the first time ever to 20.4%. they have got their work cut out. i think the company's getting a little bit of a free pass today. expectations are pretty low. but this is a company that's got a big road ahead. >> obviously there are broader problems in the retail sector. we saw tough results from urban outfitters, from staples, declining traffic, shift to online. some of the weather problems. how much of it here is target specific, sort of losing its identity, the data breach and the canadian problems? >> good question. i think a lot of it is target specific. i

jeff cox a finance editor here at cnbc.com and the chief economist at stern agee and greg mcbride, seniorbankrate.com. you read all of the research notes on wall street. i've gone through a few of them, and pretty much, despite the fact that there's negatives, they are taking this as a very positive optimistic signal on the u.s. economy. would you agree? >> yeah, sarah, absolutely. economists are all really happy about this, but i really think if you talk to the person on the street and ask them, you know, what do they think of the job market, i think, you know, anecdotally you're going to get a different view. if you look at the advocacy groups at the national employment labor project, they have a different view and let's talk about why. now, when you look inside the internals from this report today, you had 75,000 jobs in the service sector. you had 35,000 retail jobs. you had 33,000 jobs created in bars and restaurants. you have 15,000 jobs created in health care but in like laundry services, those kinds of things, and one of the really disturbing numbers out of this was the household