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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Broadcom, CenturyLink, GoPro, Linn, Stratasys, Whiting and Many More
July 31, 2015 8:55 am
Last Updated: July 31, 2015 9:06 am
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These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations.
Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) was downgraded to Perform from Outperform at Oppenheimer. Topeka Capital Markets maintained its Hold rating but cut the target to $55 in its call. Ladenburg downgraded it to Neutral from Buy with a $55 price target. This is after the IRS declined to assure Avago that this would be a tax-free acquisition.
CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) was raised to Hold from Underperform at Jefferies, but the firm cut the price target down to $26 from $30. At $28.16, CenturyLink has a $35.25 consensus analyst price target and a 52-week range of $27.50 to $41.99.
GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) was raised to Buy from Neutral with a $90 price target (versus $61.69 close) at Citigroup. GoPro has a consensus analyst price target of $74.46 and a 52-week range of $37.13 to $98.47. The median is a tad lower than the mean at $72.00, and the highest analyst price target is $105 here.
Linn Energy LLC (NASDAQ: LINE) was downgraded to Underperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse and was downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JPMorgan. This was after a 26% drop to $4.76 after earnings and suspending the distribution.
Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) was slammed down by over 10% to $32.67 and shares hit a 52-week low of $30.25 after its warnings. Still Piper Jaffray decided that this was enough – it raised the rating to Overweight from Neutral with a $39 price target. UBS threw in the towel, downgrading Stratasys to Sell from Neutral.
Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL) was started as Buy with a whopping $40 price target at Cantor Fitzgerald. Still, Guggenheim downgraded the rating to Neutral from Buy. Whiting fell 3.5% to $22.38 on Thursday and shares were indicated as $22.25 on Friday morning.
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Other key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from this Thursday were seen in shares of the following companies:
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