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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (APD, AKAM, FSLR, MA, MHP, MCO, NFLX, SVNT, UA, V)

These are this Friday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls:

Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD) Started as Outperform at William Blair.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) Raised to Buy at Collins Stewart.
Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE: MHP) Started as Buy at BofA Merrill Lynch.
Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO) Started as Buy at BofA Merrill Lynch.
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
Savient Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SVNT) Started as Overweight at JPMOrgan.
Under Armour (NYSE: UA) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer.

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