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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Colgate-Palmolive, Gilead, Navistar, Occidental, Pandora, Wal-Mart and More
September 12, 2016 9:05 am
Last Updated: January 9, 2019 2:00 pm
AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE: AZN) was raised to Buy from Hold at Jefferies.
AutoZone Inc. (NYSE: AZO) was raised to Buy from Neutral with an $825 price target (versus a $722.44 close) at UBS.
CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) was raised to Overweight from Equal Weight and the price target was raised to $35 from $30 (versus a $27.89 close) at Barclays.
Encana Corp. (NYSE: ECA) was maintained as Sector Perform but the price target was raised to $10 from $9 at RBC Capital Markets.
Finish Line Inc. (NASDAQ: FINL) was downgraded to Hold from Buy with a $24 price target (versus a $23.40 close) at Deutsche Bank.
Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) was started with an Accumulate rating and was assigned a $65 price target (versus a $49.92 close) at KLR Group.
Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) was raised to Equal Weight from Underweight and the price target was raised to $99 from $94 (versus a $93.16 close) at Barclays.
Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) was maintained as Buy but was removed from the prized Conviction Buy list at Goldman Sachs.
Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform with a $19 price target (after closing down over 6% at $15.67) at Credit Suisse.
Mirna Inc. (NASDAQ: MIRN) was started with a Buy rating and was assigned a $6 price target (versus a $2.48 close) at H.C. Wainwright.
Rubicon Project Inc. (NYSE: RUBI) was downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley.
PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) was started as Outperform with a valuation range of $125 to $127 (versus a $107.15 close) at Wells Fargo.
RetailMeNot Inc. (NASDAQ: SALE) was downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight with an $8.50 price target (versus a $11.49 close) at Morgan Stanley.
TrueCar Inc. (NASDAQ: TRUE) was downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight and the price target was raised to $6.40 from $5.00 (versus an $8.83 close) at Morgan Stanley.
VF Corp. (NYSE: VFC) was started as Market Perform and was given a valuation range of $57 to $59 (versus a $58.43 close) at Wells Fargo. The 52-week range is $52.21 to $73.81 and the consensus price target is $68.97.
XL Group Ltd. (NYSE: XL) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Janney.
Friday’s top analyst calls were in shares of Chesapeake Energy, JPMorgan, Melco Crown, Navistar, Randgold Resources, Silver Wheaton, Verifone and over a dozen more.
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