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Monday's Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Block, Dish Network, Foot Locker, Gap, Moderna, Penn National Gaming, Shopify and More

CommScope Holding Co. Inc. (NASDAQ: COMM): Goldman Sachs bumped its $9 target price up to $10 while keeping a Neutral rating. The consensus target is $10.25. The stock closed up almost 4%  on Friday at $7.60.

Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH): Credit Suisse raised its Neutral rating to Outperform with a $45 target price. J.P. Morgan cut the stock from Overweight to Neutral with a $30 target. The consensus target is $43.73. The stock closed Friday at $22.22, which was down almost 20% on the day after earnings fell short of estimates.

Excelerate Energy Inc. (NYSE: EE) Raymond James started coverage with an Outperform rating and a $30 target price. Barclays began covering the stock at Overweight with a $33 target, while SMBC Nikko started coverage with an Outperform rating and price objective of $32. There is no consensus rating, as the company had a recent and successful initial public offering. The shares ended Friday trading at $26.90.

Foot Locker Inc. (NYSE: FL): Jefferies reiterated a Buy rating and has a $61 price target, citing the new partnership the athletic shoe retailing giant signed with Adidas. That compares with a much lower $32.65 consensus target and Friday’s closing print of $29.49.

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS): Citing supply chain constraints, Zacks has selected this as its Bear of the Day stock. Shares have traded as high as $37.63 in the past year but closed most recently at $12.69. That is down more than 28% since the beginning of the year.

Graphic Packaging Holding Co. (NYSE: GPK): Zacks named this as its Bull of the Day. The analyst points out that this stock has withstood the brutal market fall in 2022 to hit new highs in May, following strong first-quarter results. Shares last closed at $21.75 and have a consensus price target of $24.52, which would be a 52-week high.


HubSpot Inc. (NYSE: HUBS): Stifel kept a Buy rating on the shares but dropped the $700 price target to $575. The consensus target is $652.28 for now. The final trade on Friday was reported at $356.38, which was up almost 5% after the CRM platform provider posted very solid first-quarter results.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE: IR): Baird has an Outperform rating on the stock, which is one of the firm’s top ideas, but it trimmed the $59 target price to $52. The consensus target is $57.93. The shares closed almost 4% lower on Friday at $43.80.

iRhythm Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: IRTC): Oppenheimer stuck with an Outperform rating and a $175 price target after the company posted solid results that topped its expectations. The $157 consensus target is lower but compares with Friday’s closing print of $124.97, which was up almost 6% for the day.

Leslie’s Inc. (NASDAQ: LESL): Baird marinated a Buy rating on the pool supply company but sliced the $28 target price to $25. The consensus target is $28.92. The stock closed at $19.64 on Friday.

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