Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Arch Coal, Coca-Cola, Duke Energy, Microsoft, Oracle, Visa and More

These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations covered by 24/7 Wall St.

Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) was downgraded to Reduce from Neutral and the price target was cut to $3 from $4 at Nomura.

Bankrate Inc. (NYSE: RATE) was downgraded to Sell from Hold at Topeka Capital Markets.

BE Aerospace Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAV) was raised to Overweight from Neutral at J.P. Morgan.

Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) was started as Market Perform with a $43 price target at Cowen.

DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) was started as Buy with a $5 price target (versus a $2.87 close) at Deutsche Bank in a late-Monday call.

Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Wells Fargo.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. (NYSE: HPY) was started as Buy with a $58 price target at Sterne Agee.

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Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) was started as Outperform at RBC Capital Markets.

Laredo Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: LPI) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) was started as Buy and an $85 price target at Sterne Agee, and it was started as Overweight and $91 target at Piper Jaffray.

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) was started as Outperform from Sector Perform at RBC Capital Markets. Argus maintained its Hold rating.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight at Barclays.

Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) was started with a Sector Perform rating at RBC Capital Markets. Here is the 24/7 Wall St. earnings preview and review ahead of Thursday’s earnings report.

Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) was downgraded to Reduce from Neutral and the price target was cut to $11 from $13 at Nomura.

PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) was started as Outperform with a $106 price target at Cowen.

Scorpio Bulkers Inc. (NYSE: SALT) was started with a Buy rating at Deutsche Bank.

Tableau Software Inc. (NYSE: DATA) was raised to Outperform from Neutral by Credit Suisse.

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) was started as Buy with a $265 price target at Sterne Agee. It was also started as Overweight with a $265 price target at Piper Jaffray.

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If you missed Monday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades, they were in shares of AMC, ADP, Barrick Gold, Cree, Rackspace, Costco, Walmart and more.