Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAPL, AMX, BBY, BKD, COH, CVS, DKS, LTM, MOS, P, RSH, RHT, SHW, SFD, TJX, URI, PAY, XOOM)

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published

Bull and Bear

These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) maintained Hold but price target cut to $420 from $500 at Jefferies.

America Movil SAB (NYSE: AMX) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.

Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.

Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) cut to Underperform at Macquarie.

Coach Inc. (NYSE: COH) maintained Buy on Focus List with $65 target at Argus.

CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS) cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.

Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. (NYSE: DKS) raised to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs and maintained Buy with $60 target at Argus.

Life Time Fitness Inc. (NYSE: LTM) named Bear of the Day at Zacks.

Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) raised to Outperform at BMO.

Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) started as Outperform at Pac-Crest.

RadioShack Inc. (NYSE: RSH) cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.

Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) cut to Neutral at Citigroup.

Sherwin-Williams Co. (NYSE: SHW) raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse.

Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) maintained Outperform and raised target to $31 from $26 at Credit Suisse.

TJX Companies Inc. (NYSE: TJX) started as Overweight at Barclays.

United Rentals Inc. (NYSE: URI) named Bull of the Day at Zacks.

VeriFone Systems Inc. (NYSE: PAY) raised to Positive at Susquehanna.

Xoom Corp. (NASDAQ: XOOM) started as Buy at Needham, started as Market Perform at Raymond James, started as Outperform at William Blair and started as Overweight at Barclays.

UBS came out with a list of eight stocks to buy now.

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About the Author Jon C. Ogg →

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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