Spire price target lowered to $81 from $82 at Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley lowered the firm’s price target on Spire (SR) to $81 from $82 and keeps an Equal Weight rating on the shares. The firm is updating its price targets for stocks in the Regulated & Diversified Utilities / IPPs North America sector, noting utilities outperformed the S&P in July, the analyst tells investors. Following a collaboration with its global team, the firm now sees long-term advantages of nuclear that it believes are underappreciated in current market narratives. Guidance for large scale renewables and residential solar was broadly positive, while IPP earnings offered mostly positive data points, the firm adds.