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Analyst calls: HD, LUV, HAS, DRI, JNPR, BBI ...

Posted Aug 19th 2008 11:33AM by Eric Buscemi
Filed under: Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Home Depot (HD), Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI), Automatic Data Proc (ADP), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Nortel Networks (NT), Hasbro Inc (HAS), Analyst Initiations, Juniper Networks (JNPR)

Analyst upgrades:

Baird upgraded Dicks Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) to Outperform from Neutral based on valuation.
Home Depot (NYSE: HD) was raised to Market Perform from Underperform by Morgan Keegan.
Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) was upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform by Avondale.

Analyst downgrades:

BMO Capital downgraded Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) to Underperform from Market Perform due to valuation and macro headwinds.
UBS dropped Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) to Neutral from Buy because of slowing casual dining trends.
Goldman Sachs dropped Affiliated Computer (NYSE: ACS) to Neutral from Buy.
Goldman also downgraded Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP) to Neutral from Buy.

Analyst initiations:

CIBC initiated Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT) with a Sector Performer rating based on what they see as the company's limited growth and margin prospects.
Needham initiated Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) with a Hold rating, citing valuation.
Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) was initiated with a Hold by Needham, which would like to see if the company's turnaround is sustainable before becoming more constructive on the shares.

Tags: acs, adp, bbi, dks, dri, has, hd, inthenews, jnpr, luv, nt

Indexes	Change	Price
DJIA	-89.23	12,801.23
NASDAQ	-23.35	2,903.88
S&P 500	-9.31	1,342.64

Last updated: February 12, 2012: 08:29 PM

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