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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (NLY, ERII, HUM, JNPR, LEAP, MRVL, MXIM, RCRC, BEE, OKS, UDRL)

Administrator — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:51:08 +0000

These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls:

Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII) Raised estimates at Janney Capital Markets.
Humana, Inc. (NYSE: HUM) Raised to Outperform as Bull of the Dat Zacks Investment Research.
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) Reiterated Buy at Jefferies.
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) Raised to Neutral at Zacks Investment Research.
Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) Reiterated Buy at Janney Capital Markets.
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) Reiterated Buy and $32 target at Gleacher & Co.
RC2 Corporation (NASDAQ: RCRC) Maintained Underperform as Bear of the Day at Zacks Investment Research.
Strategic Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: BEE) Started as Buy at BofA/ML.
ONEOK Partners (NYSE: OKS) Started as Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Union Drilling Inc. (NASDAQ: UDRL) Raised to Buy at Gabelli & Co.

JON C. OGG

Filed under: Analyst Calls Tagged: BEE, ERII, HUM, JNPR, LEAP, MRVL, MXIM, NLY, OKS, RCRC, UDRL

Union Drilling To Tap Capital (UDRL)

247wallst — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:09:41 +0000

Union Drilling, Inc. (NASDAQ: UDRL) has filed to sell up to 15,726,540 shares of common stock in a secondary offering. The company will sell up to 5,000,000 shares and the rest will come from existing shareholders.

It does not appear to have set which firms will handle the underwriting as of yet.

The company provide contract land drilling services and equipment, primarily to natural gas producers in the United States. In addition to its drilling rigs, it provides the drilling crews and most of the ancillary equipment needed to operate drilling rigs.

Shares closed up 1.3% at $19.80 today and shares were up 0.2% on extremely thin volume in after-hours trading. Its 52-week trading range was $10.67 to $22.09.

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Jon C. Ogg
May 19, 2008

Pre-Market Analyst Calls (July 6, 2007)

247wallst — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:50:11 +0000

BP raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
BRG raised target at Deutsche Bank.
CACH started as Neutral at JP Morgan.
DCEL cut to Hold at Jefferies.
HLT downgraded at Jefferies, Citigroup, and at Susquehanna.
MSFT cut estimates at D.A. Davidson.
OSG raised to Overweight at JP Morgan.
PPDI reiterated outperform at Baird.
RJF raised to Outperform at Wachovia.
RDS.A raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
UDRL raised to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.

Jon C. Ogg
July 6, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.