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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AL, ALU, AIG, AFL, BUD, ADSK, DRI, DB, DUK, HA, ILMN, IP, ISRG, NWL, NCLH, CRM, SQNM, TEF, V)
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These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls.
Air Lease Corp. (NYSE: AL) named Bull of the Day as “earnings takeoff” at Zacks.
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) raised to Market Perform at Bernstein.
American international Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) cut to Equal Weight and AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) raised to Outperform at Evercore.
Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A./N.V.(NYSE: BUD) raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) raised to Buy with $45 target at Jefferies.
Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE: DRI) cut to Neutral at UBS.
Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.
Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Hawaiian Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: HA) named Bear of the Day as “the turbulence is no joke” by Zacks.
Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) raised to Buy at UBS.
International Paper Co. (NYSE: IP) raised to Outperform at RBC, and BofA/Merrill Lynch reiterated Buy and raised target to $50 from $47.
Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) raised to Buy at Cantor Fitzgerald and reiterated Buy with $620 price target at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (NYSE: NWL) reiterated Buy and raised price target to $28 from $27 at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
Norwegian Cruise Line (NASDAQ: NCLH) started as Hold at Deutsche Bank.
Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) reiterated Buy and raised price target to $228 from $200 at BofA/Merrill Lynch.
Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) raised to Overweight at Piper Jaffray.
Telefonica S.A. (NYSE: TEF) raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) cut to Hold at Argus.
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