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The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday morning include Cisco, CSX, Hilton, L Brands, Lockheed Martin, Salesforce.com, Teck Resources and Tesoro.
Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Apache, Baker Hughes, Jack in the Box, Rite Aid, Synchrony Financial and U.S. Steel.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday, March 8, include AutoNation, Celldex Therapeutics, EP Energy, Shopify, Sony, Urban Outfitters and Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
The top analyst calls for Friday, January 8, 2016, include Apple, Alcoa, Aetna, Barracuda Networks, GoPro, PulteGroup and United Technologies.
According to Trimtabs, November was the fourth highest month on record for insider selling. These companies reported notable insider selling last week.
This week's insider selling was lighter than we have seen over the past month. Any large year-end rally could induce more selling.
It comes as no surprise that insiders have ratcheted up the selling recently. But we saw little if any selling in names that looked distressed.
Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Bluebird Bio, Boston Beer, Etsy, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer, PMC-Sierra and Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Baidu, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Cypress Semiconductor, Enterprise Products Partners, Juniper Networks, Ocwen Financial and Pacific Biosciences.
While investors have been enjoying ever higher dividends and buybacks at a new record, you just do not see waves and waves of stock splits any longer.
After seeing insider selling really strong for most of the past four weeks, things have really quieted down.
While the selling that was reported this week was consistent with what we have seen so far in March, nothing indicates a mass exodus for shareholders at this point.
While not the least bit surprising, given the big advance over the past year, some insider sales this past week were pretty staggering in size.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Coeur Mining, Comcast, First Solar, Marvell Technology, ONEOK and Whole Foods.
