These five companies basically do all their business in the United States. They provide products or services that will be needed almost regardless of the severity or length of the coronavirus outbreak.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations included Activision Blizzard, Datadog, Delta Air Lines, Eli Lilly, FedEx, Halliburton, Kinder Morgan, Skechers, Teladoc and Waste Management.
Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations included Baidu, Cerner, Duke Energy, Hertz, JD.com, Luckin Coffee, Macy's, Teladoc, Uber Technologies and Waste Management.
Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations included Agilent Technologies, Alphabet, Altria, Amazon.com, Boeing, Caterpillar, Chipotle Mexican Grill, E*Trade, Gap, Snap and Twitter.
These four top stocks are suitable for growth accounts with a longer time horizon. Their solid performance and defensive characteristics make sense now.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations on Thursday included Advanced Micro Devices, Apple, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Costco, Exxon Mobil, Netflix, Qualcomm, Ulta Beauty and U.S. Bancorp.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday included Alkermes, Alphabet, Apple, ConocoPhillips, FireEye, Lyft, McDonald's, Royal Bank of Scotland, Seagate Technology and Shopify.
Advanced Disposal shares made a sizable gain to kick off the week on what is being called one of the biggest solid-waste company acquisitions in more than a decade.
Chris Lange The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included Apple, Chipotle Mexican Grill, CEMEX, CVS, Eli Lilly, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Incyte, MercadoLibre and U.S. Steel.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included Carbon Black, Etsy, Facebook, KeyCorp, Micron Technology, Nio, Roku, Smart Sheet, Vail Resorts and Waste Management.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday included Albermarle, Alphabet, Booking, Box, CenturyLink, Cigna, DowDuPont, Kraft Heinz, MercadoLibre, Tesla and Waste Management.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday included Abbott Laboratories, Apple, Apptio, Cheniere Energy, First Solar, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Smartsheet, UPS and Waste Management.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Tuesday include Chipotle Mexican Grill, Etsy, Home Depot, PagSeguro, Snap, Walmart and Wingstop.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include Alarm.com, Biogen, Blue Apron, Cisco, Lowe's, Pandora Media and Waste Management.
With the passage of tax reform looking almost certain, and with companies continuing to prove that all-time highs in the market will not hurt spending cash on share buybacks, the continuation of…
