Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARO, ARG, AA, AAPL, BA, BSX, BRCM, COH, DRYS, MELI, TIF, URBN, INTC, CY, ATML, AMZN, APC, GOOG, VVTV)

These are some of this Monday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls.

Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO) Cut to Underperform at Jefferies.
Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG) Raised to Outperform at William Blair.
Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) target raised to $400 at ISI and raised target to $385 at Oppenheimer.
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) Raised to Neutral at BofA/ML.
Coach Inc. (NYSE: COH) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
DryShips, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
Mercadolibre, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELI) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) Cut to Hold at Jefferies
Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN) Cut to Hold at Jefferies.
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: CY) and Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) both downgraded to Neutral from Buy on valuation at Gleacher & Co.

Last week’s top five analyst calls can be seen here, including Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), ValueVision Media Inc. (NASDAQ: VVTV), and in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).

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