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These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from select Wall St. research calls.
Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ: CELG) raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) started as Neutral at Baird.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) raised to Buy from Hold with $36 target at Argus.
F5 Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray, cut to Neutral at Citigroup and cut to Market Perform at William Blair; earnings warning has shares down 17% around $75 this morning to a new 52-week low.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) raised to Overweight at Evercore.
Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) cut to Equal Weight at Barclays; shares are down 5% after F5 Networks warning too.
Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) cut to Underperform at BMO Capital Markets.
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News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) raised to Outperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse.
PDC Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: PDCE) raised to Buy at SunTrust Robinson Humphreys; maintained Outperform but cut target to $63 from $65 at Credit Suisse.
Health care insurance stocks started in new coverage at UBS: AETNA Inc. (NYSE: AET) started as Buy, CIGNA Inc. (NYSE: CI) started as Buy, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) started as Neutral, UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) started as Buy and WellPoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) started as Neutral.
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