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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (COF, CAT, CERN, CHKP, MOT, PCYC, POT, SNDK, TTWO, URBN, WMT)

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

Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF) Raised to Buy at SunTrust.
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo (late Thursday).
Cerner (NASDAQ: CERN) Started as Neutral at UBS.
Check Point Software (NASDAQ: CHKP) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Cut to Neutral at Macquarie.
Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ: PCYC) Started as Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.
Potash Corp (NYSE: POT) has seen target cuts at TD, Canaccord, Genuity, and BMO.
SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK) Raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.
Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) Raised to Buy at Morgan Joseph.
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) Raised to Buy and $60 target at Goldman Sachs.

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