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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: AAPL, COST, HPQ, JACK, MOS, NVLS, WMT ...
Sep 21, 2009 05:00 PM UTC

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Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Apple Inc (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Wal-Mart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST), Analyst initiations

Analyst upgrades:

Roth Capital upgraded MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) to Buy from Hold and raised its target to $90 from $70, citing encouraging Q2 results, new product cycle catalysts, a lift from Europe, and cost reductions.

William Blair upgraded Costco (NASDAQ: COST) to Outperform from Market Perform after meeting with management as it believes sales and earnings could beat expectations over the next year.

Credit Suisse upgraded Novellus (NASDAQ: NVLS) to Outperform from Neutral and raised its target to $29 from $23. The firm cites higher Samsung capex forecast, high leverage, and low expectations.

Home Properties (NYSE: HME) and Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) were upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at FBC Capital, while Douglas Emmett (NYSE: DEI) and Duke Realty (NYSE: DRE) were raised to Market Perform from Underperform.

Agilent (NYSE: A) was upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays.

Cytec Industries (NYSE: CYT) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at KeyBanc.

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