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FeedPosted Feb 19th 2009 11:15AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Hasbro Inc (HAS), Analyst initiations
Analyst upgrades:
- Jefferies upgraded Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI) to Buy from Hold as it believes the company is taking the right steps to turn its operations around. The firm raised its target price to $13 from $11.
- Pali upgraded Whole Foods to Buy from Sell following the Q1 report based on better than expected cost containment, labor costs, capex cuts, and plans to rationalize the store base.
- Thomas Weisel upgraded Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) to Overweight from Market Weight. The firm believes HPQ's risk/reward has improved given overdue reduced FY09 guidance and attractive valuation.
- Bernstein upgraded Talisman (NYSE: TLM) to Outperform from Market Perform based on relative valuation.
- Navistar (NYSE: NAV) was added to Goldman's Conviction Buy List.
- Sovran Self Storage (NYSE: SSS) was upgraded to Perform from Underperform at Oppenheimer.
- Suncor (NYSE: SU) was upgraded at Barclays to Overweight from Equal Weight.
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