Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BP, CKR, CSX, FWLT, FLR, GME, HES, PNRA, MCD, MSFT, UNP)

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Published: May 27, 2010 8:31 am

Last Updated: April 3, 2020 4:33 pm

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

BP plc (NYSE: BP) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.
CKE Restaurants Inc. (NYSE: CKR) Cut to Sell at Roth.
CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) Cut to Market Perform at BMO Capital Markets.
Foster Wheeler Ltd. (NASDAQ: FWLT) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Fluor Corp. (NYSE: FLR) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) Raised to Buy at Janney.
Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) Raised to Hold at Benchmark.
Panera Bread Co. (NASDAQ: PNRA) Started as Buy at Stern Agee.
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) Started as Buy at SStern Agee.
Microsoft Corp. (NASSDAQ: MSFT) Raised to Outperform at FBR.
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) Cut to Market Perform at BMO Capital Markets.

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