Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) was maintained as Neutral at Credit Suisse, but the firm did lower its estimates to adjusting for lower lease originations.
Alon USA Energy Inc. (NYSE: ALJ) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) was downgraded to Underperform from Perform and the price target was set at $68 (versus a $79.63 close) at Oppenheimer.
BIND Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: BIND) was started as Outperform and was given a price target of $14 (versus a $5.67 close) at Oppenheimer. While this is a huge target, the consensus price target is actually listed as $16 and the 52-week range is $4.89 to $13.72. Shares were indicated up 7% on the news.
Callaway Golf Co. (NYSE: ELY) was started as Neutral at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
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CenterPoint Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNP) was maintained as Buy but the price target was cut to $27 from $29 (versus a $21.06 close) at Argus. The firm is seeing some KW/hour sales stabilization but thinks it will be at least 2016 before sustained sales growth returns.
Charles River Laboratories International Inc. (NYSE: CRL) was downgraded to Underperform from Market Perform by Wells Fargo.
Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) was raised to Buy from Hold at Evercore ISI. The price target was raised to $92 (versus a $84.94 close).
Demandware Inc. (NYSE: DWRE) was maintained as Buy but was added to the prized Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.
Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE: DVN) was reiterated as Buy and the price target was raised to $76 from $68 at Argus. The firm said that Devon is better positioned following the completion of recent asset divestitures and acquisitions.
Evercore Partners Inc. (NYSE: EVR) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS.
FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) was raised to Buy from Neutral at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) was reiterated as Buy with a $50 price target at Sterne Agee, after the report that the Canadian government will sell 73.4 million shares.
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Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG) was started as Underperform at RBC Capital Markets. It was given a $68 price target (versus a $72.86 close).
Novavax Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX) was reiterated Buy with a $12 fair value estimate (versus a $7.81 close) at Janney Capital Markets. The firm believes that a data-heavy 2015 will continue driving the shares higher.
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ: ORIG) was started as Accumulate with a $7.50 price target (versus a $7.13 close) at Global Hunter.
Pattern Energy Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGI) was raised to Outperform from Neutral at Raymond James. The firm set a $35 price target
Paychex Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) was reiterated as Buy and the price target was raised to $56 from $53 at Argus. The firm believes that Paychex has room to grow its core business.
Rocket Fuel Inc. (NASDAQ: FUEL) was reiterated Buy with a Fair Value estimate of $17.50 (versus a $8.97) based on overcoming the agency dilemma at Janney Capital Markets.
Teck Resources Ltd. (NYSE: TCK) was downgraded to Sector Perform from Sector Outperform at CIBC.
Total S.A. (NYSE: TOT) was raised to Outperform from Market Perform at RBC Capital Markets.
Toyota Motors Corp. (NYSE: TM) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS.
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Ubiquiti Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: UBNT) was downgraded to Underperform from Neutral with a $33 price target (versus a $29.16 close) at Merrill Lynch.
Universal Technical Institute Inc. (NYSE: UTI) was reiterated as Sell at Argus, based on continued industry pressures.
Verifone Systems Inc. (NYSE: PAY) was raised to Buy from Hold with a price target of $42 (versus a $34.39 close) at Stifel.
In case you missed Monday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades, they included of CONSOL Energy, Garmin, IMAX, Microsoft, SAP, Windstream and a dozen or so more.
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