Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALU, BSX, EAT, CLX, GT, KMB, SBUX, TEVA, UNH, WU)

These are this Tuesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours.  It is more skewed to downgrades, something we have not seen routinely in some time.

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Hold from Buy at RBS.
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) Cut to Sector Perform at RBC; Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Brinker International (NYSE: EAT) Cut to Underweight at Piper Jaffray.
Clorox Corporation (NYSE: CLX) Raised to Overweight at Barclays.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: GT) Started as Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) Maintained Sell but added to Conviction Sell List at Goldman Sachs.
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) Raised to Buy at UBS.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (NASDAQ: TEVA) Removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs, but maintained Buy.
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) Removed from Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs, but maintained Buy.
Western Union (NYSE: WU) Cut to Market Perform at William Blair.

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