The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday included Alcoa, Broadcom, Dow, Lyft, Netflix, Roku, Walt Disney, Wingstop and Xilinx.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included Alcoa, Cars.com, CVS Health, Electronic Arts, Halliburton, PNC Financial Services, Salesforce.com, Walgreens Boots Alliance and UnitedHealth.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included AbbVie, Agilent Technologies, Albermarle, Apple, Boeing, Cheniere Energy, First Solar, HCA, LabCorp, Lumber Liquidators and Teva Pharmaceutical.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday included ABB, AGCO, AT&T, Broadcom, Caterpillar, Costco, First Solar, Lululemon Athletica, Roku, Verizon and Xilinx.
Friday was a positive day for the broad U.S. markets. Each of the major averages started out the session on a negative note but ultimately ended the day positive.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wednesday include AT&T, CenturyLink, MercadoLibre, Netflix, Starbucks, Tiffany, TJX Companies and YRC Worldwide.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include AbbVie, American Water, Carnival, Cisco, Darden, DexCom, Micron Technology, Nike and Occidental Petroleum.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Monday include AbbVie, Apple, Exact Sciences, Freeport-McMoran, Laboratory Corp and Splunk.
Canaccord Genuity's diagnostics analyst Mark Massaro has released his own top picks for 2018. These top five picks in the space have a combined market cap of over $70 billion.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Tuesday include Alibaba, BHP Billiton, Cintas, Monsanto, Schlumberger, Shopify, Hess and Western Digital.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday morning include Bats Global Markets, Eli Lilly, Gap, Hasbro, JD.com, Nike, Pfizer and SolarCity.
With earnings season drawing to a close and the windows for buying and selling opening, watch for the volume of buying and selling to increase in the coming weeks.
Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Amazon.com, Blackstone, FireEye, Myriad Genetics, Visa, CBOE, Hershey and Vail Resorts.
Friday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades include Cisco Systems, EMC, GameStop, Novavax, Tesla Motors and Yahoo.
Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include AK Steel, American Express, Citigroup, MannKind, Micron Technology, Ocwen Financial and Seagate Technology.
