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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: American Express, Bed Bath & Beyond, Costco, Kraft Heinz, Micron, Twitter, UnitedHealth, Vale, Visa and More
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Stocks were indicated to open marginally lower after news that President Trump is set to enact more tariffs against China. U.S. equity indexes remain very close to all-time highs, while most international markets are not close to theirs. One issue that must be considered is that investors have seen less upside from buying on market pullbacks than in prior years. Investors also need to be considering how they want to have their investments positioned for the rest of 2018.
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These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday, September 17, 2018.
Alliance Data Systems Corp. (NYSE: ADS) was started with a Buy rating and assigned a $290 price objective at Merrill Lynch.
American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) was raised to Overweight from Equal Weight at Stephens. Amex shares were indicated up 0.8% at $110.50 on Monday after a 0.8% gain on Friday. The consensus target price was $111.80, and the 52-week trading range is $86.95 to $110.01.
Anthem Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) was started as Outperform and the price target was set at $318 (versus a $270.78 prior close) at Cowen.
Aramark Corp. (NYSE: ARMK) was started as Outperform and assigned a $52 price target at Bernstein.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) was raised to Market Perform from Underperform at Raymond James. Shares were up 3% at $18.07 on Friday’s close and indicated up another 1.6% at $18.35 on Monday. The prior consensus target price was $17.82.
Cigna Corp. (NYSE: CI) was started as Outperform and the target price was set at $240 (versus a $195.11 close) at Cowen. Cigna had a consensus target price of $223.06.
Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) was maintained as Overweight by JPMorgan, but Barclays downgraded it to Equal Weight from Overweight. Shares closed down 2.4% at $235.38 on Friday and were indicated down 0.8% more at $233.50 on Monday. The consensus target price was $232.41.
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: PLAY) was reiterated as Buy and the target price was raised to $72 from $65 (versus a $62.05 close) at Canaccord Genuity. BMO Capital Markets reiterated its Outperform rating and raised its target price to $70 from $64.
Federated Investors Inc. (NYSE: FII) was raised to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan.
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