Benzinga's Bulls & Bears Of The Week: Caterpillar, Facebook, Starbucks, Tesla And More

• Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week.
• Bullish calls included a social media giant in the spotlight and a big three automaker.
• Bearish calls included the electric vehicle leader and a ubiquitous coffee purveyor.

Social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg faced congressional questioning this past week, and the first of the big banks stepped up to kick off first-quarter earnings reporting season. But those bank stocks ended the week lower, while Facebook had a modest gain and the broader markets ended the week marginally higher.

Of course, Benzinga has continued to feature looks at the prospects for many investor favorite stocks. Here are just a few of this past week's bullish and bearish posts that may be worth another look.

Bulls

"'A Buying Opportunity In Facebook': Analysts React To Zuckerberg's Congressional Testimony" by Elizabeth Balboa shows what Wall Street thinks of Facebook, Inc. FB now.

In "Buckingham: Caterpillar Set To Deliver 30% EPS Growth This Year," Shanthi Rexaline examines whether recent underperformance offers a buying opportunity in Caterpillar Inc. CAT.

Elizabeth Balboa's "3 Reasons Why Morgan Stanley Is Now A GM Buyer" shows why this top analyst feels General Motors Company GM has a lot going for it.

Despite the hype, one analyst doesn't see the leading cryptocurrency posing a real threat to Paypal Holdings Inc PYPL, according to Shanthi Rexaline's " Morgan Stanley: Bitcoin Is No Threat To PayPal's Online Dominance."

In Jayson Derrick's "BMO's Bearish Stance On Eli Lilly Comes To An End," see why concerns about Eli Lilly And Co LLY may already be priced in.

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Bears

"Cowen Downgrades Starbucks Due In Part To Poor Sales Of Gift Cards, Craft Coffee " by Jayson Derrick looks at why a rebound at Starbucks Corporation SBUX may not be in the cards for now.

In Elizabeth Balboa's "Gordon Johnson: Tesla Has 'Bleak' Future, Will Drop To $84," see why Tesla Inc TSLA investors may face big downside.

Oracle Corporation ORCL is just one of the uninspiring analyst picks featured in "18 Internet Stocks And What To Do With Them" by Wayne Duggan.

In "Ellie Mae Downgraded: As Mortgage Origination Market Matures, Wedbush Sees Limited Upside Potential," Bill Haddad shows what rising rates mean for Ellie Mae Inc ELLI.

Jayson Derrick's "6 Reasons Why Goldman Sachs Turned Neutral On U.S. Silica Holdings" makes the case that it might be a good time to reduce exposure to the likes of U.S. Silica Holdings Inc SLCA.

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