** Shares of electronic-signature solution provider DOCU.O
drop 4.5% to $81.90 premarket as Wedbush downgrades to
"underperform" from "neutral" and sets the lowest PT on Street
** Brokerage cuts its PT to $60 from $80, which implies a
30% downside in shares
** Median PT of 23 brokerages covering DOCU is $109, avg.
rating is "buy" - Eikon Refinitiv data
** Analyst Dan Ives says "WFH poster children such as
Netflix NFLX.O , Zoom ZM.O , DocuSign, etc. will continue to
see multiples compress as results soften off pandemic highs"
** Also downgrades both - 3D virtual tour creator Matterport
MTTR.O and artificial intelligence software firm C3.ai AI.N
- to "neutral" from "outperform"
** MTTR shares fall 4.6%; AI down 3.2%
** Wedbush names Microsoft MSFT.O and Apple AAPL.O as
its top picks amid the tech-led selloff in stocks
** Within its favorite sub-sector, cyber security, brokerage
names Palo Alto PAWN.ON , Zscaler ZS.O , Tenable TENB.O ,
Fortinet FTNT.O , and CyberArk CYBG.F as its favorite picks
** Our unwavering view is that the shift to the cloud is
only ~40% complete with a massive digital growth wave ahead that
will benefit Microsoft MSFT.O , Amazon (AWS) AMZN.O , Google
(GCP) GOOGL.O , Salesforce CRM.N , and Oracle ORCL.O -
Wedbush
** DOCU down 43% this year after doubling of the previous
two years; MTTR down 71% and AI down 42% YTD
(Reporting by Medha Singh)
((medha.singh@thomsonreuters.com))