Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (MT, COF, CAT, CNO, CS, CSX, EXPD, LVS, MAS, NFLX, QLIK, RIMM, ROC, RYAAY, SGY, V)

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Published: January 18, 2013 8:19 am

Last Updated: March 18, 2020 8:42 pm

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Friday from Wall St. research calls:

ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.

Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) raised to Positive at Susquehanna and cut to Neutral at Janney.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) raised to Overweight at Piper Jaffray.

CNO Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: CNO) raised to Outperform as Bull of the Day at Zacks.

Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS) raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.

CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.

Expeditors International of Washington Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPD) raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo.

Masco Corp. (NYSE: MAS) raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) raised to Buy with $129 fair value target at Janney.

Qlik Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: QLIK) raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.

Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) raised to Buy at Jefferies.

Rockwood Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ROC) added to U.S. Focus List and raised price target to $65 by Credit Suisse.

Ryanair Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: RYAAY) cut to Underweight at HSBC.

Stone Energy Corp. (NYSE: SGY) cut to Underperform from Neutral as Bear of the Day at Zacks.

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) cut to Neutral at Baird.

Dividend Investors: Argus makes major changes to its model equity income portfolio (FULL SUMMARY).

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