Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Kongzhong, China Mobile, Sunoco, Trammell Crow and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone.CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day, the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Kongzhong (Nasdaq:KONG), China Mobile (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CHL CHL crown-heel length. ), Sunoco (NYSE:SUN), Trammell Crow F. Trammell Crow (born June 11, 1914, in Dallas, Texas) is an American property developer who created several famous projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center (Atlanta, Georgia), and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. (NYSE:TCC TCC The Car Connection (web site) TCC Tidewater Community College TCC Tallahassee Community College TCC Temporary Continuation of Coverage TCC Tucson Convention Center (Tucson, AZ, USA) ) and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NYSE:NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform ). See the latest posts to the Analyst Blog by visiting: http://at.zacks.com/?id=2673 Here are highlights from Monday's Analyst Blog: Kongzhong Target Adjusted to $9 Although Kongzhong (Nasdaq:KONG) announced satisfactory financial results of the second quarter of 2006, its stock price has declined greatly since China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) announced its new measure to service providers. However, Chinese wireless value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. providers have great potential and have grown rapidly in the past three years. Moreover, Kongzhong's leading position on the 2.5G platform in China will help the company make full use of the 3G opportunity in the future. Overall, we don't think its current stock price fairly represents the company's intrinsic value Intrinsic Value 1. The value of a company or an asset based on an underlying perception of the value. 2. For call options, this is the difference between the underlying stock's price and the strike price. . Therefore, we are maintaining our Buy recommendation for Kongzhong's stock. Raising Estimates on SUN Sunoco's (NYSE:SUN) reported better-than-expected second-quarter 2006 results, reflecting substantially improved realized refining margins. We have raised our 2006 EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. estimate to $8.66 from $7.35, to reflect the second-quarter gain and continued strong refining margins. Our overall positive outlook for the group - as well as the stock - remains unchanged. With a number of major new petroleum-product specifications coming into force this year, the supply situation is expected to remain under pressure. This, we believe, should help keep refining margins at or above mid-cycle levels in the near to medium term. Trammell Crow Stays a Buy We are reiterating our Buy recommendation on shares of Trammell Crow (NYSE:TCC). The company continues to have positive earnings momentum in most business segments, and we believe it will likely continue throughout 2006. We like management's focus on expanding its operating margins, and greatly expanding its development pipeline. The Global Services division had another solid quarter, as demand is still strong in user and investor services. Additionally, the company should start to realize benefits from its large in process development pipeline over the next couple of quarters. Low Visibility at NTT Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NYSE:NTT), the largest provider of fixed-line and wireless telephony telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver. See also: Wireless services in Japan, declared disappointing first quarter (ended June) fiscal 2007 results with net income falling almost 19% year-over-year. The company faces intense pricing pressure as other service providers churn NTT's subscriber base with competitive voice, broadband data and wireless services in most areas of Japan. This continues to impact NTT's customer retention, top-line sales level and profit margins. While the company has given a fairly optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op outlook for the rest of the current fiscal year, we believe near-term challenges like continuous market loss of mobile services to smaller competitors limit upside visibility. We reiterate our Hold rating for NTT as we look for substantiated indicators of growth with deployed broadband and fiber-to-the-home infrastructure that provide advanced service capabilities. 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