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FeedPosted Mar 30th 2009 12:00PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Analyst initiations, Barclays plc ADS (BCS)
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Analyst upgrades:
- Royal Bank of Scotland upgraded shares of Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to Buy from Hold to reflect the company's dividend yield.
- JMP Securities expects HFF Inc. (NYSE: HF) to benefit from increased U.S. commercial real estate sales and mortgage volumes. Shares were upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform. The firm has a $5 target on shares.
- Oppenheimer upgraded Church & Dwight (NYSE: CHD) to Outperform from Perform as it believes Church & Dwight's value-oriented portfolio should continue to benefit from the consumer trade-down and that concerns over distribution are overblown. The firm set a $62 price on shares.
- Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) was upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
- Burlington Northern (NYSE: BNI) was raised to Buy from Neutral at Goldman.
- AMB Property (NYSE: AMB) was lifted to Neutral from Underperform at Banc of America/Merrill.
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Posted Dec 13th 2007 11:09AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades, SLM Corp (SLM)
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MOST NOTEWORTHY: BMC Software, Cynosure and ADC Telecomm were today's noteworthy upgrades:
- Credit Suisse upgraded BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) to Outperform from Neutral based on an improving pricing environment for mainframe software, growth expectations, and upcoming release of IBM (NYSE: IBM) mainframe hardware.
- Cynosure (NASDAQ: CYNO) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Citigroup. The firm upgraded shares after yesterday's sell-off as their checks suggest no notable reduction in demand in Q4.
- Merriman upgraded shares of ADC Telecommincations (NASDAQ: ADCT) to Buy from Neutral on the company's strong margin performance in Q4, prospects for growth and attractive valuation.
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