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

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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