Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: TOM Online, China Mobile, Reinsurance Group of America and H&R Block.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: TOM Online (Nasdaq: TOMO), China Mobile (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CHL CHL crown-heel length. ), Reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. Group of America (NYSE: RGA RGA Reinsurance Group of America RGA Return Goods Authorization RGA Republican Governors Association RGA Residual Gas Analyzer RGA Royal Garrison Artillery RGA Restricted Growth Association (UK) RGA Rate Gyro Assembly ) and H&R Block (NYSE: HRB HRB H&R Block, Inc. HRB Harbin, China (Airport Code) HRB Human Resources Branch (Canada) HRB Haiti International Airline (ICAO code) HRB Human Rights Bureau ). See the latest posts to the Analyst Blog by visiting: http://at.zacks.com/?id=2673 Here are highlights from Wednesday's Analyst Blog: Downgrade for TOM Online TOM Online's (Nasdaq: TOMO) second quarter revenues were driven by both wireless internet services and online advertising, while its gross margin continued to decline. Overall, we think Tom Online still has good chance to benefit from the potential growth of the wireless Internet services in China because of its leading position and balanced WVAS WVAS Wireless Value Added Services WVAS Wabash Valley Astronomical Society (Indiana, USA) WVAS Wabash Valley Astronomical Society WVAS Wake Vortex Advisory System WVAS Welland Valley Art Society (UK) portfolio. However, we are pessimistic on its wireless business in the near future due to the policy changes of China Mobile (NYSE: CHL). Overall, we believe its current stock price fairly reflects Tom Online's future prospects. Thus, we are lowering our recommendation to a Hold on TOM Online. RGA with Upside Reinsurance Group of America (NYSE: RGA) is benefiting from shrinking capacity in the U.S. life reinsurance market, after several large companies recently left the market and from rapidly growing overseas operations. Moreover, mortality experience in the company's mainstay U.S. operations has generally improved; despite being mildly unfavorable in 2Q06 it was favorable to inline in the previous three quarters, after being unfavorable for five. This recent string of unfavorable mortality has created investor skepticism over RGA's pricing and, we believe, is depressing the stock's valuation well below its peers' multiples. In our view, improvement will provide a near-term catalyst to upside in the stock. Sell Maintained on H&R Block We maintain our Sell rating for H&R Block (NYSE: HRB). First quarter earnings were negatively impacted by the deteriorating mortgage business, while competition remains intense in the tax business. Until we see evidence that the mortgage business has stabilized, we expect limited upside movement in the share price. Over the last five years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time shares of H&R Block have traded within a range of 10x and 20x forward twelve-month earnings. Given near term issues, we expect the stock to continue to trade near the low end of this historical trading range Historical trading range The range of price over which a security or a commodity has traded since listing on a exchange. historical trading range The highest and lowest prices at which a security has traded since going public. . As such, our six-month target price of $18.00 is based on approximately 11x our 2007 earnings estimate. 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