Friday's top analyst calls include Best Buy, 3D Systems, Electronic Arts, Gilead Sciences, Nokia, Shire and United Rentals.
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 CBS, Cisco, Comerica, Twitter, FedEx, Illumina, Linn Energy and NuVasive.
Argus sees the sell-off as as an opportunity to establish positions in high-quality "redemption casualties" that have been dragged down on nonfundamental weakness, such as Lowe's and Masco.
All corporations stop insider transactions around the reporting date to avoid the look of any impropriety, and they appear to be resuming with a vengeance.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Altera, Amazon.com, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Halliburton, MGIC Investment, Nokia, SAP and Teva Pharmaceutical.
While insiders did shed some of their company stock this past week, there was no rush to the exits to blow out huge blocks of shares.
With the markets at or near record highs, the volume of insider selling has reached some of the highest levels this year.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street for Friday, May 2, 2014. They include Avanir, Avon, Broadcom, LinkedIn, Oracle and Wynn Resorts.
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