Top Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (ADBE, BCS, STV, FPL, FLR, GME, PCLN, TOL, TSN, TROW)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls:

Adobe Systems NASDAQ: ADBE) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
Barclays plc (NYSE: BCS) Cut to Hold at RBS.
China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
FPL Group (NYSE: FPL) Raised to Buy at Citi.
Fluor (NYSE: FLR) Raised to Hold at Citi.
GameStop (NYSE: GME) Removed from Convition Buy List at Goldman Sachs (still Buy rated).
Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo.
Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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