Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ADS, COF, CTL, CSCO, CYMI, F, GM, BEN, GPS, GOOG, MKSI, TXT)

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Published: April 18, 2008 6:53 am

Last Updated: March 26, 2020 12:50 pm

These are not all of the analyst calls affecting shares, but these are the initial calls we are focusing on early this Friday morning:

Alliance Data Systems (NYSE: ADS) Raised to Buy From Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Capital One (NYSE: COF) Cut to Neutral from Buy at Piper Jaffray; Cut to Underperform from Market Perform at KBW.
CenturyTel (NYSE: CTL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) Started as Buy at Lazard.
Cymer (NASDAQ: CYMI) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Ford (NYSE: F) and GM (NYSE: GM) losses widened out at JPMorgan.
Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN) cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.
Gap Inc (NYSE: GPS) Cut To Equalweight From Overweight at Lehman Brothers.
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) raised to Buy at Jefferies; Merrill Lynch raised price target to $600.
MKS Instruments (NASDAQ: MKSI) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Textron (NYSE: TXT) Cut to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.

Jon C. Ogg
April 18, 2008

Jon Ogg is a producer and editor of the Special Situation newsletter and the "10 Stocks Under $10" weekly newsletter for a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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