24/7 Wall St.

Investors and traders are always on the lookout for new ideas that will generate positive returns or income for their portfolio. 24/7 Wall St. looks over numerous research calls to find great ideas from value stocks to growth stocks to dividend stocks. Many of these are stocks to buy and stocks to sell, and some come from Wall St. and some come from independent research firms.

These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from select Wall St. research calls.

Addus HomeCare Corp. (NASDAQ: ADUS) cut to Perform from Outperform at Oppenheimer.

AGL Resources Inc. (NYSE: GAS) named Bear of the Day at Zacks.

Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) raised to Buy from Hold at Deutsche Bank.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) started as Buy with $540 price target at Lazard.

Brinker International Inc. (NYSE: EAT) raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.

CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL) raised to Overweight at J.P. Morgan.

Domino’s Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) maintained Buy but removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.

Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) cut to Hold at Argus.

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Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) cut to Sector Perform at RBC Capital Markets.

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) cut to Neutral from Buy at BofA/Merrill Lynch.

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U.S. Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC) cut to Neutral at BofA/Merrill Lynch.

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc. (NASDAQ: ULTA) raised to Buy from Hold at Jefferies.

Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO) raised to Buy from Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.