Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BKD, EOG, ITRI, K, PTEN, PEET, PGR, THRX, VALE, VRSN)

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published

These are this Monday’s top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls:

Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) Removed from Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy List.
EOG Resources (NYSE: EOG) Raised to Outperform at RBC Capital.
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) Raised to Buy at Lazard.
Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) Cut to Market Perform at BMO Capital.
Patterson-UTI Energy (NASDAQ: PTEN) Raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Peet’s Coffee and Tea (NASDAQ: PEET) Cut to Neutral at Janney.
Progressive Corp (NYSE: PGR) Raised to Perform from Underperform at Oppenheimer.
Theravance Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray.
Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE) Raised to Buy at Canaccord.
VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.

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JON C. OGG

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.

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