The analyst also favors Tyco Toys Inc., a much smaller company whose main products are electric car racing sets and electric train sets.

For bargain hunters, however, analysts favor companies like the rapidly expanding Target - formerly Dayton Hudson - with a mostly value-conscious core of customers.

Even so, many analysts still favor the company and recommend its stock.

"We think the analysts favor the tobacco companies and are consistently trumpeting the industry's position," said John P. Coale, a lawyer for the plaintiffs who is their spokesman.

In this environment, many analysts favor bonds over equities, particularly longer-term bonds, given the expected fall in short-term interest rates.

In so doing, he helped widen the lens through which personality disorders are viewed beyond the classical Freudian one that analysts had favored for decades.

We think the analysts favor the tobacco companies and are consistently trumpeting the industry's position.

Western military analysts favor March, they say, because the ground will be too soft after seasonal rains during February for the rapid movement of Iraqi tanks and artillery.

Many analysts favor Mr. Heyer, noting his accomplishments in bottler negotiations, marketing and product innovation.

Most analysts had favored Centocor's drug over Xoma's.