Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, AMAT, AVGO, CMED, D, FDO, ISRG, MDT, ORCC, PEG, QLIK, RLD, RIMM)

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Published: August 25, 2010 8:22 am

Last Updated: April 3, 2020 4:19 pm

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

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Overweight and $340 target at Barclays.
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Cut to Underperform at First Global.
Avago Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: AVGO) Reiterated Buy and $30 target at Gleacher.
China Medical Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: CMED) Started as Buy with $16 target at Deutsche Bank.
Dominion Resources, Inc. (NYSE: D) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) Cut to Market Perform at BMO.
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo.
Medtronic, Inc.(NYSE: MDT) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo; Cut to Market Perform at William Blair.
Online Resources Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCC) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (NYSE: PEG) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
Qlik Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLIK) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD) Started as Outperform By BMO; Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray; Started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) Cut to Hold an $48 target at GMP.

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