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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: VOD, CBS, BCS, MS, ICE, AU ...

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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Analyst upgrades: BMC, CYNO and ADCT

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.
OTHER UPGRADES:

Symbol Lookup
IndexesChangePrice
DJIA+44.2910,291.26
NASDAQ+15.822,166.90
S&P 500+5.501,098.51

Last updated: November 11, 2009: 11:37 PM

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