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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALL, GWRE, KMT, LVS, LEAP, LO, PCS, MWW, P, PIR, TM, ZNGA)

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

Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Raised to Buy and $36 target at Argus.

Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank; Started as Neutral at Citigroup; Started as Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.

Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) named as Value stock of the day at Zacks.

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) Reiterated Outperform and raised target to $64 at Credit Suisse.

Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein.

Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO) named as Bull of the Day at Zacks.

MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein.

Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW) Started as Outperform at BMO.

Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.

Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR) raised estimates and target to $20 by Oppenheimer.

Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.

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