Top Analyst Upgrades and Stocks to Buy: Embraer, Lockheed, MGIC, UPS and More

July 24, 2013 by Jon C. Ogg

Investors and traders seem to be constantly looking for fresh research ideas that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls each morning to find great ideas from value stocks to growth stocks to dividend stocks. We are breaking out the positive analyst calls as far as stocks to buy and positive research calls today. These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, initiations and positive analyst research calls seen from Wall Street.

Carlisle Companies Inc. (NYSE: CSL) was raised to Buy from Neutral at SunTrust.

Embraer S.A. (NYSE: ERJ) was raised to Neutral from Underweight at J.P. Morgan.

Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) was raised to Neutral from Underperform at BofA/Merrill Lynch.

MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE: MTG) was raised to Positive from Neutral at Susquehanna.

Rosetta Resources Inc. (NASDAQ: ROSE) was initiated as Buy with a $61 price target at Canaccord Genuity.

Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. (NYSE: ST) was raised to Outperform from Perform and given a $43 price target by Oppenheimer.

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NYSE: AMTD) was raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.

United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) was initiated as Outperform with a $86 price target at Credit Suisse.

VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) was raised to Buy from Neutral at Nomura and was raised to Outperform from Market Perform at Raymond James.

Wendy’s Co. (NASDAQ: WEN) was raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.

Deutsche Bank has given specialty pharmaceutical stocks it thinks will be acquisition targets.

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