These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls.
ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) was downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) was raised to Buy from Neutral at Nomura, and the price target was raised to $23 from $15 (versus a $16.11 close), which is interesting considering that it is immediately before earnings.
Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB) was downgraded to Sell from Neutral at Citigroup.
Charter Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) was started as Outperform with a valuation range of $195 to $200 (versus $161.98 close) at Wells Fargo.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) was raised to Buy from Neutral with a $23 price target at Goldman Sachs. This was just after Friday’s downgrade from Citigroup to Neutral from Buy.
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DCP Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE: DPM) was downgraded to Sell from Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Dean Foods Co. (NYSE: DF) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was downgraded to Neutral from Overweight by Atlantic Equities.
Government Properties Income Trust (NYSE: GOV) was downgraded to UNderperform from Hold at Jefferies.
Kellogg Co. (NYSE: K) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Citigroup.
Kraft Foods Group Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT) was downgraded to Sell from Neutral at Citigroup.
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Markwest Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE: MWE) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Goldman Sachs.
On Deck Capital Inc. (NYSE: ONDK) was started as Buy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Stifel, and Needham. Raymond James started the lender with a Market Perform rating and J.P. Morgan started it as Neutral.
Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Teradyne Inc. (NYSE: TER) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Western Refining Inc. (NYSE: WNR) was cut to Sell from Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Windstream Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: WIN) was raised to Buy from Neutral with a $10 price target at Merrill Lynch.
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In case you missed Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations, they were in Baker Hughes, Crocs, Keurig Green Mountain, Halliburton, Nuance Communications, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Schlumberger, Staples, Yelp and a dozen or so more.
These are the most recent S&P 500 targets for 2015 from the major brokerage firms:
- Barclays, 2,100
- BMO Capital Markets, 2,250
- Citigroup, 2,200
- Credit Suisse, 2,200
- Deutsche Bank, 2,150
- Goldman Sachs, 2,100
- J.P. Morgan, 2,250
- Merrill Lynch, 2,200
- Morgan Stanley, 2,275
- Oppenheimer, 2,311
- RBC, 2,325
- UBS, 2,225
- Wells Fargo, 2,222
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