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Feb 19, 2009 04:15 PM UTC

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Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Hasbro Inc (HAS), Analyst initiations

Analyst upgrades:

Jefferies upgraded Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI) to Buy from Hold as it believes the company is taking the right steps to turn its operations around. The firm raised its target price to $13 from $11.

Pali upgraded Whole Foods to Buy from Sell following the Q1 report based on better than expected cost containment, labor costs, capex cuts, and plans to rationalize the store base.

Thomas Weisel upgraded Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) to Overweight from Market Weight. The firm believes HPQ's risk/reward has improved given overdue reduced FY09 guidance and attractive valuation.

Bernstein upgraded Talisman (NYSE: TLM) to Outperform from Market Perform based on relative valuation.

Navistar (NYSE: NAV) was added to Goldman's Conviction Buy List.

Sovran Self Storage (NYSE: SSS) was upgraded to Perform from Underperform at Oppenheimer.

Suncor (NYSE: SU) was upgraded at Barclays to Overweight from Equal Weight.

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