Most analysts maintain a solid buy recommendation on the stock.

Even after the bankruptcy filing, analysts at several large firms maintained their buy recommendations on Enron.

Indeed, some analysts maintain that the economy is more buoyant than recent figures suggest.

But many analysts maintain that the average is still unusually long.

As a result, discounts should be wider to compensate, the analysts maintain.

Some political analysts maintain that the hidden reason for both 1991 and 2003 wars can be traced to strategic control of international energy resources.

Some analysts maintain that these new rules pressured banks to make weak loans.

Nevertheless, most analysts maintain that domestic auto companies have made major progress in improving quality and reducing costs.

Some analysts maintain that when debt goes above, say, 80 percent of a company's total financing, it has really become equity.

But most of the utilities, and many financial analysts who cover the electricity business, maintain a more guarded attitude.