Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ALSK, AMLN, CX, FTO, NVDA, OVTI, BTU, QSFT, RBS, WBMD)

May 28, 2008 by Douglas A. McIntyre

These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Wednesday morning:

  • Alaska Communications (NASDAQ: ALSK) Raised to Buy at Banc Of America Securities.
  • Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMLN) Raised to Equalweight at Lehman Brothers.
  • Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: CX) Cut to Underweight from Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
  • Frontier Oil (NYSE: FTO) Raised to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.
  • Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) Raised to Market-Outperform at JMP Securities.
  • OmniVision Tech (NASDAQ: OVTI) downgraded to Perform at Oppenheimer.
  • Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) Raised to Buy from Neutral at UBS.
  • Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT) Raised to Buy from Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
  • Royal Bank Of Scotland (NYSE: RBS) Raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
  • WebMD (NASDAQ: WBMD) Raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.

Jon C. Ogg
May 28, 2008

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