Top Early Bird Analyst Calls (JBT, XPRT, PTRY, SNY, ERIC, LLTC, MXIM, NSM, NFC, RTP, SAI)

November 24, 2008 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Money_stack_pic_2These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we are seeing early this Monday morning with more than two hours until the open:

  • John Bean Technologies (JBT) Started as Buy at Janney Montgomery.
  • LECG Corp. (XPRT) Raised to Buy at UBS.
  • Pantry Inc. (PTRY) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
  • Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
  • Ericsson (ERIC) Cut to Underperform at Credit Suisse.
  • Linear Tech (LLTC) Cut to Underperform at FBR.
  • Maxim Integrated (MXIM) Cut to underperform at FBR.
  • National Semiconductor (NSM) Cut to Market Perform at FBR.
  • Nationwide Financial (NFC) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
  • Rio Tinto (RTP) Cut to Hold at Canaccord.
  • SAIC (SAI) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.

Jon C. Ogg 
November 24, 2008

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