Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (C, DRI, DLTR, FDO, FMCN, NITE, MA, PFE, PG, VLCM)

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Published: May 21, 2010 8:19 am

Last Updated: April 3, 2020 4:19 pm

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Friday morning in Wall Street research calls:

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) Started as Strong Buy at Raymond James (late yesterday call).
Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein.
Dollar Tree Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) Cut to Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley. Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Focus Media Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ: FMCN) reiterated Buy and raises target to $24 from $23 at Auriga.
Knight Capital Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NITE) Raised to Outperform at BMO.
Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) Raised to BUy at Janney.
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) STarted as Buy at Jefferies.
Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) Started as Buy at Janney.
Volcom Inc. (NASDAQ: VLCM) Cut to Underweight at KeyBanc.

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