Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ACOR, AGCO, AEO, AU, ANDE, CTXS, DE, ITRI, NTAP, VMW)

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

Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ACOR) Cut to Market Perform at Leerink Swann.
AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO) Started as Hold at Morgan Joseph.
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) Raised to Buy at Wells Fargo.
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE: AU) Cut to Neutral at UBS.
Andersons Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDE) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) Started as Neutral at UBS.
Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) Raised to Buy at Needham.
NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) Cut to Market Perform at BMO Capital; Cut to Hold at Canaccord Adams.
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) Started as Buy at UBS.

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JON C. OGG
FEBRUARY 18, 2010