These are Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations.
Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCHW) was raised to Buy from Neutral with a $36 price target (versus a $32.26 close) at Goldman Sachs. The consensus price target is almost $34.
3D Systems Corp. (NYSE: DDD) was started as Market Perform with a $21.00 price target (versus a $21.75 close) at FBR. The consensus price target now is only $24.63.
Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) was started with a Buy rating and price target of $8.50 (versus a $6.00 close) at Deutsche Bank. This was a top analyst call on Thursday as well, with B. Riley downgrading the online deals site to Neutral from Buy.
Lifepoint Health Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT) was started as Buy and was added on to the Conviction Buy list with a $92 price target (versus a $73.39 close) at Goldman Sachs. The consensus price target is almost $81, and the street’s highest analyst target is $94.
Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) was started as Market Perform with a $42.00 price target (versus a $35.65 close) at FBR. Stratasys has a consensus analyst target of about $46.00, and it was recently given upside of almost 50% in a competing analyst call.
E*Trade Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC) was started as Buy with a $34 price target (versus a $30.11 close) at Goldman Sachs. The stock was recently highlighted as potentially bringing up merger interest ahead, which follows many such rumors of years past. The consensus price target is $31.64, and the highest analyst price target is $35.00.
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The following are the additional top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday:
Adeptus Health Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT) was started as Buy with a price target of $88 (versus a $76.48 close) at Goldman Sachs.
AES Corp. (NYSE: AES) was raised to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan.
AmSurg Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSG) was started as Buy with a price target of $81 (versus a $68.51 close) at Goldman Sachs.
Bazaarvoice Inc. (NASDAQ: BV) was raised to Buy from Neutral at B. Riley with an $8.50 price target (versus a $5.78 close). This is ahead of next week’s earnings report, and after Needham started it with a Buy rating a week earlier.
Chubb Corp. (NYSE: CB) was raised to Market Perform from Underperform at Keefe Bruyette & Woods.
Citizens Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: CFG) was downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Keefe Bruyette & Woods.
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Denny’s Corp. (NASDAQ: DENN) was raised to Outperform from Neutral with a $14 price target (versus a $10.57 close) at Wedbush.
Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Macquarie.
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) was raised to Buy from Hold with a $34 price target (versus a $27.46 close) at Stifel.
ExOne Co. (NASDAQ: XONE) was started as Market Perform with a $13.00 price target (versus a $12.89 close) at FBR. ExOne has a consensus target of almost $18.
8×8 Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at B. Riley.
Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) was reiterated as Neutral with a fair value target of $40 (versus a $38.59 close) at Janney Capital Markets.
GlaxoSmithKline PLC (NYSE: GSK) was downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight at Morgan Stanley.
Lloyds Banking Group PLC (NYSE: LYG) was raised to Buy from Hold at HSBC.
Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) was started as Overweight at Atlantic Equities.
Team Health Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TMH) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy with a $68 price target at Goldman Sachs.
Universal Health Services Inc. (NYSE: UHS) was started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs.
Virtus Investment Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS) was raised to Buy from Hold at Jefferies.
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In case you missed Thursday’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades, they were in shares of Twitter, Whiting Petroleum, Groupon, Goldman Sachs BDC, AT&T and over a dozen more.
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