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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ARMH, ASML, BAC, BBT, CROX, CHKP, FITB, GME, JPM, WFR, MTB, MON, STM, ECOL, VE)

These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes:

ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML) Started as Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) Started as Neutral at Nomura.
BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
Crocs Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) Started as Buy at Sterne Agee.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) Started as Buy at UBS.
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) Started as Perform at Oppenheimer.
JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) Started as Buy at Nomura.
MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE: WFR) Raised to Hold at Wunderlich.
M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB) Raised to Market Perform at KBW.
Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) Maintained Buy but removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs (late Wednesday)
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) Started as Equal-Weight at Morgan Stanley.
US Ecology (NASDAQ: ECOL) Started as Buy at Wunderlich.
Veolia Environnment S.A. (NYSE: VE) Raised to Buy at UBS.

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