Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: aQuantive, Digitas, Stoneridge and ECI Telecom.

CHICAGO -- Zacks Equity Research highlights aQuantive, Inc. (Nasdaq: AQNT) the Bull of the Day and Digitas, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTAS) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Stoneridge (NYSE: SRI) and ECI Telecom, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ECIL). Full analysis of all four stocks is available at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2676.

Here is a synopsis of all four stocks:

Bull of the Day:

Our Bull of the Day recommendation is for aQuantive, Inc. (Nasdaq: AQNT). Due to solid top-line growth through its acquisition strategy and broadening customer base, aQuantive has shown tremendous growth as of late. Growing spending on Internet advertising and the company's defensible position provide opportunities for accelerating growth. Although many of the stocks in the industry have been victims of overly optimistic expectations, we believe growth is still strong and there would be buyers in view of the current weakness. We, therefore, maintain our Buy recommendation on the shares of AQNT with a six-month target price of $40.00.

Bear of the Day:

Our Bear of the Day recommendation is for Digitas, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTAS). We remain concerned about a slowdown in spending at two of Digitas key clients, and continue to be concerned about the previous customer losses at the company. We are looking to see some improvements in the company's retention rate, although we expect advertising spending to slow in the second half of the year and have lowered our expectations for 2007. The recent strength in the company's shares leads us to feel market expectations for the company in the current quarter remain high, which is a cause for concern. We continue to rate shares of DTAS a sell, and are maintaining our price target of $7.50.

Analyst Blog:

Stoneridge (NYSE: SRI) is aggressively cutting costs and benefiting from the growth of the commercial vehicle market. Increased use of electronics in vehicles is also benefiting the company. However, a squeeze between raw materials and prices, along with weak vehicle demand forces us to rate the shares a Hold with a target price of $7.00.

We expect ECI Telecom, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ECIL) to report an in-line quarter when the company reports its third quarter financial results in late October. While its two largest customers continue to drive growth in its broadband division, we expect growth in its Optical Networking division to be driven by new customers in emerging markets. Additionally, the integration issues from its most-recent acquisition should be behind the company after this quarter, which could set up growth for the remainder of 2006 and into 2007. We continue to rate shares of ECIL a Hold, however, as we believe the company is fairly-valued at these levels. We have upped our price target to $8.75, or 1.5x our EV/Sales estimate for 2006.

Get the full analysis of all four stocks by going to http://at.zacks.com/?id=2649.

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