Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AKS, AMZN, BBY, HGSI, JNJ, KFT, MS, TWX, X, VZ)

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Published: January 27, 2010 8:26 am

Last Updated: April 3, 2020 4:35 pm

These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research:

AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Buy/$155 target at Kaufman Bros.
Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) Raised to Buy at Rochdale Securities.
Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI) Started as Outperform at RBC Capital.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) Raised to Outperform at Leerink Swann.
Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Raised to Outperform at Willaim Blair.
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) Started as Outperform at RBC Capital.
United States Steel (NYSE: X) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs; Cut to Hold at Citigroup.
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) Cut to Market Perform at FBR Capital.

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