Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Apple, Chipotle, eBay, JetBlue, Kraft Heinz, Twitter, Gap, NOV and More

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Published: April 27, 2016 8:55 am

Last Updated: January 13, 2020 10:14 am

Stocks were indicated lower on Wednesday, partly dragged down by a disappointing Apple earnings report. It still seems that investors have returned to a mentality of buying the pullbacks rather than selling rallies. Keep in mind that the S&P 500 is now valued at about 17.8 times its forward 12-month price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio after peaking at 17.9 last week.

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These are top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday morning:

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was last seen trading down after the first sales decline in a decade and as guidance was even worse than expected. Apple was maintained as Buy at Merrill Lynch, but the price objective was cut to $120 from $125. Barclays kept its Overweight rating, but cut the target to $121 from $131. Nomura maintained its Buy rating but cut its target to $120 from $135. Oppenheimer cut the rating to Perform from Outperform. Canaccord Genuity maintained its Buy rating but cut the target to $130 from $146, and RBC maintained its Outperform rating but cut the target to $120 from $130.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. (NYSE: CMG) was last seen trading down 5% at $424.00 after sales tanked enough that it had its first loss. Most analysts kept their ratings but lowered their targets: Barclays to $430 from $450 (with Equal Weight rating), Cowen to $400 (with Market Perform), JPMorgan to $485 from $510 (with Overweight), UBS to $450 from $460 (with Neutral). Deutsche Bank has a Sell rating but cut its target to $360 from $400.