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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: American Water Works, Bonanza Creek, Dollar Tree, SanDisk, Valeant and Many More
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Stocks were indicated to open slightly lower on Wednesday morning, but we now have seen two consecutive two weeks of a rally. Is it possible that the trend of selling into every rally is migrating back to the buy the dip trend of the prior four years?
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These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.
American Water Works Co. Inc. (NYSE: AWK) was last seen up on news it was joining the S&P 500 Index. Based on valuation, it was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform with a $67.00 price target (versus a $65.30 prior close) at R.W. Baird. Shares were indicated up 4.7% at $68.35 on this news, and it has a consensus analyst target price of $64.82 and a 52-week trading range of $48.36 to $68.49.
Bonanza Creek Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: BCEI) was downgraded to In-Line from Outperform with a $1.00 price target (versus a $1.05 close) Imperial Capital. Canaccord Genuity downgraded it to Hold from Buy and the price target was slashed to $2 from $12. Wunderlich cut its rating to Hold from Buy. This is after many post-loss downgrades on Tuesday that sent shares down 43.5% to $1.05, with a new 52-week range of $0.88 to $30.69.
SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy with a $78.50 price target (versus a $74.08 close) at Mizuho Securities. The consensus analyst price is $76.12 and the 52-week range is $44.28 to $87.43.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (NYSE: VRX) was downgraded to Hold from Buy and the price target was cut to $75 from $125 (versus a $65.45 close) at Canaccord Genuity. The stock has a 52-week range of $59.87 to $263.81.
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Other key analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations were seen in the following on Wednesday:
If you missed Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades, they included Freeport-McMoRan, PTC Therapeutics, SunEdison, Transocean, United Technologies, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Windstream and about a dozen more.
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