Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATK, CELG, NTAP, NVLS, WMT, ATHN, ARNA, BK, GENZ, Q)

September 21, 2009 by Douglas A. McIntyre

These are the top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Monday morning:

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Celgene (CELG) raised to Outperform at R.W.Baird.
NetApp (NTAP) raised to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs
Novellus (NVLS) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Wal-Mart (WMT) Started as Overweight at HSBC.
Athenahealth (ATHN) started as Sell at Citigroup.
Arena Pharmaceuticals (ARNA) cut to Market Perform at Leerink Swann.
Bank of New York Mellon (BK) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Genzyme (GENZ) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
Qwest (Q) Cut to Conviction Sell List, but was already a Sell, at Goldman Sachs.

JON C. OGG

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