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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Analog Devices, Canadian Solar, Home Depot, Marvell, Wal-Mart and Many More
August 19, 2015 8:50 am
Last Updated: August 19, 2015 8:51 am
Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE) was raised to Buy from Neutral at UBS.
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) was maintained as Neutral and the post-spin price target was cut to $30 at Mizuho Securities.
Fogo De Chao Inc. (NASDAQ: FOGO) was raised to Overweight from Neutral with a $24 price target at JPMorgan.
Habit Restaurants Inc. (NASDAQ: HABT) was raised to Outperform from Market Perform with a $33 price target at Raymond James. This is after share fell more than 30% over the past three months.
Hain Celestial Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HAIN) was reiterated as Overweight with a $69 price target at Piper Jaffray, after a near 7% drop the prior day. Wells Fargo maintained its Market Perform rating with a $55 to $57 price target.
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Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) was reiterated as Buy and the price target was raised to $250 at Mizuho Securities.
International Game Technology PLC (NYSE: IGT) was started as Sell and was assigned a $15.50 price target (versus a $19.28) at Goldman Sachs.
J.M. Smucker Co. (NYSE: SJM) was raised to Outperform from Neutral and the price target was raised to $125 from $112 (versus a $108.97 close) at Credit Suisse.
Methanex Corp. (NASDAQ: MEOH) was downgraded to Outperform from Strong Buy at Raymond James.
Panera Bread Co. (NASDAQ: PNRA) was started as Hold with a $220 price target at Maxim Group.
Scientific Games Corp. (NASDAQ: SGMS) was started as Sell with a $7.50 price target at Goldman Sachs.
Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL) was maintained as Buy and the price target was cut to $15 from $25 at Roth Capital, as the China market weakness is offsetting module strength.
Weight Watchers International Inc. (NYSE: WTW) was raised to Equal Weight from Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
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In case you missed out on Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades, they included Agilent, SanDisk, SunEdison, Urban Outfitters, Walt Disney and over a dozen more.
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