These are ten of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls:
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Computer Programs & Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CPSI) Raised to Hold at Auriga.
DIRECTV (NYSE: DTV) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) Cut to Sell at Kaufman Bros.; Cut to Underperform at Morgan Joseph. Canaccord Adams cut the target to ZERO.
Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) Started as Buy at Wunderlich.
Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) Started as Buy at BB&T.
Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer.
Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE: WFT) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
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