These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls.
Ambarella Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA) was downgraded to Underperform from Hold at Needham.
Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) was raised to Overweight from Equal Weight with a $104 price target (versus a $93.79 close) at Morgan Stanley. Gilead was also named as a Top 10 Picks for 2015 by Barron’s this past weekend.
Halyard Health Inc. (NYSE: HYH) was started as Market Outperform with a $50 price target (versus a $41.71 close) at JMP Securities.
Inphi Corp. (NYSE: IPHI) was raised to Strong Buy from Buy with a $23 price target at Needham.
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MarkWest Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE: MWE) was raised to Overweight from Equal Weight and the price target was raised to $81 from $79 (versus a $66.62 close) at Stephens.
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE: PNC) was started as Hold at Argus.
RF Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: RFMD) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Needham.
Skyworks Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS) downgraded to Hold from Buy at Needham.
TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (NASDAQ: TQNT) downgraded to Hold from Buy at Needham.
RigNet Inc. (NASDAQ: RNET) was started as Neutral at Macquarie.
Sonus Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: SONS) was started as Buy at Wunderlich.
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