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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: VZ, T, GT, RIO, XRX, MA ...

Posted Feb 20th 2009 11:15AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, AT and T (T), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), Xerox Corp (XRX), Verizon Communications (VZ), Analyst Initiations, Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT)

Analyst upgrades:

Citigroup upgraded WebMD (NASDAQ: WBMD) shares to Buy from Hold on valuation following the company's Q4 results and outlook. The firm maintains a $25 target on the stock.
Goldman upgraded Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) to Buy from Neutral based on valuation and expectations for 2010 earnings growth.
Roth upgraded Maxwell Tech (NASDAQ: MXWL) to Buy from Hold following the company's Q4 results to reflect strong ultracapacitor sales growth and gross margin improvement. The firm maintains a $12 target on the stock.
Nara Bancorp (NASDAQ: NARA) was raised to Market Perform from Underperform at Friedman Billings.
Cubic (NYSE: CUB) was upgraded to Neutral from Overweight at JP Morgan.
Terex (NYSE: TEX) was lifted to Outperform from Market Perform at Wachovia.

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Analyst initiations: BOL, FFIV, MGI and STJ

Posted Aug 14th 2007 11:35AM by Kevin Shult (RSS feed)
Filed under: Before the Bell, Analyst Reports, , Analyst Initiations, Stocks to Buy, Stocks to Sell

MOST NOTEWORTHY: MoneyGram (MGI), F5 Networks (FFIV), ARK Restaurants (ARKR), Nara Bancorp (NARA) and St. Jude Medical (STJ) were today's noteworthy initiations:

AG Edwards initiated MoneyGram (NYSE: MGI) with a Buy rating because it believes the recent pullback in the shares provides an attractive entry point; Stephens started shares of MoneyGram with an Overweight rating, and believes the company is well positioned to create strong transactional growth and take market share.

CIBC expects F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) to benefit from strong fundamentals in application networking solutions and started shares with a Sector Outperformer rating and $85 target.

Morgan Joseph initiated ARK Restaurants (NASDAQ: ARKR) with a Buy rating and $43 target; they believe ARK is well positioned to benefit from strong SSS & earnings leverage given its strong store locations, wide ranging price points, and stable unit development pipeline.

Sandler is positive on Nara Bancorp (NASDAQ: NARA), starting shares with a Buy rating and $17 target, based on the company's long-term prospects.

ThinkEquity believes St. Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ) is poised to take market share in the ICD markets and started shares with a Buy rating and $56 target...

OTHER INITIATIONS: