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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (MDRX, ANR, AMCX, AEO, BAC, CBRL, EMR, JNY, LDK, PERY, PCLN, R, HOT, SXC, VPRT)

Administrator — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:08:36 +0000

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) Reiterated Buy with $27 target at Argus.
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR) Started as Neutral at JPMorgan.
AMC Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: AMCX) Started as Buy with $42 target at BofA/ML.
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) Maintained Outperform with $14 target at Credit Suisse.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBRL) Cut to Neutral at SunTrust.
Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR) Cut to Hold at Argus.
The Jones Group Inc. (NYSE: JNY) Raised to Buy with $14 target at BofA/ML.
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) Cut to Underperform at Wells Fargo.
Perry Ellis International (NASDAQ: PERY) Raised to Buy with $26 target at BofA/ML.
Priceline.com Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) Reiterated Outperform as Bull of the Day at Zacks.
Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) named Value stock of the day at Zacks.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HOT) Maintained Outperform but cut target to $64 at Credit Suisse.
SunCoke Energy Inc. (NYSE: SXC) Started as Outperform with $19 target at Credit Suisse.
VistaPrint NV (NASDAQ: VPRT) Cut to Neutral as Bear of the Day at Zacks.

JON C. OGG

Filed under: Analyst Calls Tagged: AEO, AMCX, ANR, BAC, CBRL, EMR, HOT, JNY, LDK, MDRX, PCLN, PERY, R, SXC, VPRT

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (MDRX, AMR, ADI, BHP, BYD, CHH, KIOR, LEAP, MRO, MAR, PCS, OSG, PFCB, RDC, SKH, TXN, VLO, YNDX)

Administrator — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:12:42 +0000

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) Raised to Buy at Auriga.
AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI) Cut to Neutral at Stern Agee.
BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Boyd Gaming Corp. (NYSE: BYD) Cut to Underperform at BofA/ML.
Choice Hotels (NYSE: CHH) Raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
KiOR, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIOR) Started as Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) Cut to Neutral at Baird.
Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) Cut to Neutral at BofA/ML.
MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) Cut to Neutral at Baird; Maintained Neutral but cut target to $12 at Credit Suisse; Maintained Buy with $22 target at Argus.
Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (NYSE: OSG) Cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank; Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFCB) Cut to Sell at Argus.
Rowan Companies (NYSE: RDC) Raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (NYSE: SKH) Started as Underperform at BofA/ML.
Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) Cut to Neutral at Stern Agee.
Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) Reiterated Buy with $35 target at Argus.
Yandex N. V. (NASDAQ: YNDX) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.

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Filed under: Analyst Calls Tagged: ADI, AMR, BHP, BYD, CHH, KIOR, LEAP, MAR, MDRX, MRO, OSG, PCS, PFCB, RDC, SKH, TXN, VLO, YNDX

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247wallst — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:57:06 +0000

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twitter users. It raises the question of whether there is wisdom in crowds.

24/7 Wall St. will look at the Twitter posts at Reuters Biz, WSJ, Financial Times, CNN Money, MarketWatch, CNBC, and 24/7 Wall St. each day to see which stocks are most frequently mentioned. It is clear that in this area of social media these tweet are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. These financial sites are followed by a combined 625,000 Twitter users which makes them a sizeable sample of Wall St.’s interests. In some cases, we will publish the actual tweets from the sites.

Among the most tweeted stocks on market aggregator Top Stock Tweets are EURUSD , Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), GBPUSD, BP plc (NYSE: BP), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), AUDUSD, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), Eclipsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ECLP), and Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX).Reuters Biz: Amid gloom, some bulls roam Wall Street http://link.reuters.com/xus98k

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Douglas A. McIntyre

Filed under: Research Tagged: AAPL, BAC, BP, ECLP, GOOG, MDRX, MSFT

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ABB, MDRX, BSX, DROOY, GFI, HMY, WFR, BTU, POT, PHM, PUK, STM, WEN)

Administrator — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:30:51 +0000

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning:

ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) Raised to Overweight at Thomas Weisel.
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) Maintained Sell at Goldman Sachs, but removed from Conviction Sell List.
DRDGold (NASDAQ: DROOY) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
Gold Fields Ltd. (NYSE: GFI) Started as Equal-weight at Morgan Stanley.
Harmony Gold Mining Co. (NYSE: HMY) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) Cut to Buy from Strong Buy at S&P (late yesterday).
Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) Raised to Outperform at BMO Capital.
Potash Corp of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) Raised to Buy at UBS.
Pulte Homes (NYSE: PHM) Raised to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Prudential plc (NYSE: PUK) Started as Buy at UBS.
STMicroelectronics NV (NYSE: STM) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Wendy’s/Arby’s (NYSE: WEN) Raised to Buy at SunTrust.

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Filed under: Analyst Calls Tagged: ABB, BSX, BTU, DROOY, GFI, HMY, MDRX, PHM, POT, PUK, STM, WEN, WFR

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AEZS, ACV, MDRX, CAAS, DELL, HPQ, BEE, SIMG, SY, TEF, TIVO, WCRX)

Administrator — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:22:46 +0000

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday:

Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) Reiterated Outperform but Target raised to $2 from $1.50 at RBC.
Alberto-Culver Co. (NYSE: ACV) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
China Automotive Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CAAS) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) Started as Buy at Brean Murray.
Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) Started as Buy at Brean Murray.
Strategic Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: BEE) Raised to Neutral at Baird.
Silicon Image Inc. (NASDAQ: SIMG) Raised to Buy at Needham.
Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) Cut to Hold at Kaufman; Cut at Lazard late Friday on the bad court review news. TiVo’s technical trade set-ups are also available at VSInvestor.com.
Telefonica SA (NYSE: TEF) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Warner Chilcott plc (NASDAQ: WCRX) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.

JON C. OGG

Filed under: Analyst Calls Tagged: ACV, AEZS, BEE, CAAS, DELL, HPQ, MDRX, SIMG, SY, TEF, TIVO, WCRX

Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CME, DRI, ICE, MYGN, NVS, ALXN, MDRX, NNI, NOK)

247wallst — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:14:08 +0000

There were many analyst calls this morning, but the problem is that most were on smaller companies or were by second and third tier boutiques. These were the top call from Wall Street this Friday morning.

CME Group (CME) Started as Outperform at JMP Securities.
Darden Restaurants (DRI) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Started as Outperform at JMP.
Myriad Genetics (MYGN) Started as Buy at Soleil.
Novartis (NVS) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Alexion (ALXN) Started as Sell at Think Equity.
Allscripts (MDRX) Cut to Hold at Auriga.
NelNet (NNI) Cut to Market Perform at KBW.
Nokia (NOK) Cut to Neutral at UBS.

JON C. OGG

JULY 17, 2009

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: ALXN, CME, DRI, ICE, MDRX, MYGN, NNI, NOK, NVS

Top Analyst Upgrades (ARLP, MDRX, FDO, GFI, LOW, MSSR, MDR, TASR)

247wallst — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:39:52 +0000

These are the top upgrades and positive calls we have seen from analysts on Wall Street this Friday morning:

Alliance Resource (ARLP) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare (MDRX) Started as Outperform at Morgan Keegan.
Family Dollar (FDO) Raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Gold Fields (GFI) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Lowe’s (LOW) Raised To Outperform at FBR.
McCormick & Schmick’s (MSSR) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.
McDermott (MDR) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
TASER (TASR) Raised to Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.

JON C. OGG

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: ARLP, FDO, GFI, LOW, MDR, MDRX, MSSR, TASR

Top Pre-Market Anlyst Upgrades & Downgrades (IHG, MRVL, VAL, VSAT, MDRX, AAPL, COF, CHRW, NHY, TSON)

247wallst — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:23:42 +0000

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen on Wall Street early this Tuesday morning:

Intercontinental Hotels Group plc (IHG) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
Marvell Tech (MRVL) Raised to Outperform at Barclays.
Valspar (VAL) Raised to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan.
ViaSat (VSAT) Started as Buy at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare (MDRX) Cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.
Apple (AAPL) Cut to Underperform from Outperform at Calyon.
Capital One (COF) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
CH Robinson Worldwide (CHRW) Cut to Underperform at Wachovia.
Norsk Hydro (NHY) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.
Trans1 (TSON) Cut to Market Performn at Wachovia.

Jon C. Ogg
February 24, 2009

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: AAPL, CHRW, COF, IHG, MDRX, MRVL, NHY, TSON, VAL, VSAT

Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (MDRX, AAUK, EBAY, HNZ, SOLR, ITG, NVO, SI, SCR, PCU, STP, VISN)

247wallst — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:03:59 +0000

These are most of the general analyst calls we have seen with downgrades or negative implications this Wednesday morning in the early pre-market trading hours:

Allscripts-Misys (NASDAQ: MDRX) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
Anglo American (NASDAQ: AAUK) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) Started as Sell at Collins Stewart.
HJ Heinz (NYSE: HNZ) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein.
GT Solar (NASDAQ: SOLR) Started as Buy at Kaufman Brothers.
Investment Tech (NYSE: ITG) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Novo-Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) Cut to Sell at Citigroup.
Siemens (NYSE: SI) Cut to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.
Simcere Pharmaceutical Group. (NYSE: SCR) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) Cut to Sell at UBS.
Suntech Power (NYSE: STP) Cut to Underperform at FBR.
VisionChina Media (NASDAQ: VISN) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.

There were also many financial downgrades and some downgrades specific to the oil patch this morning as well. As you can see by the few upgrades noted earlier, the pace of downgrades is still greatly exceeding upgrades.

Jon C. Ogg
January 14, 2009

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: AAUK, EBAY, HNZ, ITG, MDRX, NVO, PCU, SCR, SI, SOLR, STP, VISN

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (MDRX, BDX, ED, CRXL, CSX, RTN, SGR, SNN)

247wallst — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:23:54 +0000

These are the early bird upgrades and positive analyst calls we have seen from Wall Street this Friday morning:

Allscripts-Misys (NASDAQ: MDRX) Raised to Outperform at William Blair.
Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Crucell (NASDAQ: CRXL) Raised to Buy at RBS.
CSX (NYSE: CSX) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Shaw Group (NYSE: SGR) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
Smith & Nephew (NYSE: SNN) Raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.

Jon C. Ogg
January 9, 2009

Posted in Analyst Calls Tagged: BDX, CRXL, CSX, ED, MDRX, RTN, SGR, SNN