Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ADCT, ABC, CAH, MCK, CRUS, LNG, HAIN, ISRG, NFS, PTR, VMED, WLK)

These are the top individual analyst calls we are focusing on this Thursday morning in pre-market trading:

• ADC Telecom (NASDAQ: ADCT) raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
• AmerisourceBergen (NYSE: ABC), Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), and McKesson (NYSE: MCK) were all downgraded to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
• Cirrus Logic (NASDAQ: CRUS) Cut to Perform from Outperform at Oppenheimer.
• Cheniere Energy (NYSE: LNG) cut to Equalweight from Overweight at Lehman.
• Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN) Cut to Underweight at JP Morgan.
• Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) started as Buy at Lazard; started as Market Outperform at JMP Securities.
• Nationwide Financial (NYSE: NFS) Raised to Buy from Neutral at UBS.
• PetroChina (NYSE: PTR) cut to Sell at Citigroup.
• Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED) cut to Neutral at Jefferies,
• Westlake Chemical (NYSE: WLK) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.

Jon C. Ogg
April 10, 2008