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Analyst upgrades 3-29-07: Berkshire Hathaway & Warner Music Group upgraded

Posted Mar 29th 2007 10:41AM by Kevin Shult (RSS feed)
Filed under: Before the Bell, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Good news, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)

MOST NOTEWORTHY: Warner Music Group Corp (WMG), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc (RRGB) and Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRK.A) were some of today's notable upgrades:

Pali Capital upgraded shares of Warner Music Group Corp (NYSE: WMG) on valuation.

Matrix USA upgraded Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc (NASDAQ: RRGB) to Hold from Sell on valuation.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE: BRK.A) was upgraded to In Line from Underperform at Fox-Pitt, Kelton.

OTHER UPGRADES:

UBS upgraded ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMHY) to Buy from Neutral as the firm believes the company will be a significant beneficiary of the acceleration in 3G handset adoption in 2007.

Wachovia upgraded Pactiv Corp (NYSE: PTV) to Outperform from Market Perform on valuation.

Baird raised Patterson Companies (NASDAQ: PDCO) rating to Outperform from Neutral.

BMO Capital raised UCBH Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: UCBH) rating to Outperform from to Market Perform.

O2Micro International Ltd (NASDAQ: OIIM) was upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Oppenheimer citing a possible near-term court settlement with Samsung, which provides significant earnings leverage.

Analyst summaries provided by TheFlyOnTheWall.com (subscription required).

Unsexy workhorses lead market rally

Posted Nov 21st 2006 2:10PM by Maura McCormack (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Good news, From the Boards, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Market Matters, OfficeMax Inc (OMX)

It's not only the fun tech stocks that are responsible for the markets' soaring heights. It may be fun to watch Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) soar to $505 and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) inch to $30 per share, as it did yesterday and was rewarded by Credit Suisse with an upgrade from neutral to outperform. But there are plenty of less glamorous leaders driving the markets ever upwards.

As Alexandra Twin points out at CNNMoney.com, Allegheny Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ATI), for example, is up a whopping 112% year-to-date. There's also a lot of strength in the steel sector, as Tom Taulli points out today with his post on the Oregon Steel Mills (NYSE:OS) deal.

Steel not boring enough? Pactiv Corp. (NYSE:PTV), the maker of Hefty trash bags and a variety of take-out containers, is up 52.3%. Now there's a social trend reflected in the markets!

Other market workhorses include OfficeMax, Inc. (NYSE:OMX) and Big Lots, Inc (NYSE: BIG) both up 93.2% in the 2006 S&P.