Analyst Ratings
Upgrades
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| BMO Capital Markets | Upgrade | NYSE:AIV | Apartment Investment & Management Co | Market Perform | Outperform | $27.00 | $28.00 | 11.2% Upside | $25.19 | |
| BMO Capital Markets | Upgrade | NYSE:AVB | AvalonBay Communities | Underperform | Market Perform | $134.00 | $135.00 | 2.2% Upside | $132.05 | |
| Wedbush | Upgrade | NASDAQ:BLOX | Infoblox | Neutral | Outperform | $18.00 | $21.00 | 50.5% Upside | $13.95 | |
| Macquarie | Upgrade | LON:BRW | Brewin Dolphin Holdings | neutral | $3.10 | N/A | ||||
| BB&T | Upgrade | NASDAQ:CPRT | Copart | Hold | Buy | $29.88 | ||||
| BMO Capital Markets | Upgrade | NYSE:CPT | Camden Property Trust | Market Perform | Outperform | $71.00 | $72.00 | 10.4% Upside | $65.21 | |
| Compass Point | Upgrade | NYSE:DHI | D.R. Horton | Sell | Neutral | $13.00 | $18.00 | 8.1% Downside | $19.58 | |
| Macquarie | Upgrade | NYSE:EOG | EOG Resources | Neutral | Outperform | $142.00 | 22.0% Upside | $116.35 | ||
| BMO Capital Markets | Upgrade | NYSE:ESS | Essex Property Trust | Market Perform | Outperform | $152.00 | $153.00 | 9.2% Upside | $140.05 | |
| Piper Jaffray | Upgrade | NYSE:GES | Guess | Neutral | Overweight | $25.00 | $31.00 | 29.4% Upside | $23.96 | |
| Oracle Research | Upgrade | NASDAQ:GOOG | Hold | Buy | $760.00 | 13.3% Upside | $670.71 | |||
| Wells Fargo & Co. | Upgrade | NASDAQ:IACI | InterActiveCorp | Market Perform | Outperform | $44.15 | ||||
| RBC Capital | Upgrade | NASDAQ:IVNYY | Invensys plc | Underperform | Outperform | $4.31 | ||||
| Goldman Sachs | Upgrade | NYSE:KMX | CarMax | Neutral | Buy | $32.00 | $42.00 | 17.1% Upside | $35.88 | |
| Robert W. Baird | Upgrade | NASDAQ:MCEP | Mid-Con Energy Partners | Neutral | Outperform | $24.00 | 18.7% Upside | $20.22 | ||
| Compass Point | Upgrade | NASDAQ:MCRS | Micros Systems | Neutral | Buy | $50.00 | 14.5% Upside | $43.67 | ||
| FBR Capital | Upgrade | NYSE:NRF | Northstar Realty Finance Corp. | Market Perform | Outperform | $5.00 | $8.00 | 27.0% Upside | $6.30 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | Upgrade | NYSE:PLT | Plantronics | Neutral | Overweight | $39.50 | $41.00 | 26.7% Upside | $32.37 | |
| Sanford C. Bernstein | Upgrade | NYSE:PNR | Pentair | Market Perform | Outperform | $58.00 | 21.8% Upside | $47.60 | ||
| KeyBanc Capital Mkts | Upgrade | NYSE:PSA | Public Storage | Underweight | Hold | $142.33 | ||||
| Goldman Sachs | Upgrade | NASDAQ:RIMM | Research In Motion | Neutral | Buy | $9.00 | $16.00 | 44.1% Upside | $11.10 | |
| Natixis | Upgrade | LON:TCG | Thomas Cook Group | neutral | $0.40 | N/A |
Downgrades
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| Caris & Co. | Downgrade | NYSE:ARO | Aeropostale | Above Average | Average | $14.12 | ||||
| Sterne Agee | Downgrade | NASDAQ:ATVI | Activision Blizzard | Buy | Neutral | $11.33 | ||||
| BMO Capital Markets | Downgrade | NYSE:BRE | Bre Properties | Market Perform | Underperform | $50.00 | $47.00 | 2.1% Downside | $48.00 | |
| Jefferies Group | Downgrade | NASDAQ:BSYBY | British Sky Broadcasting Group plc | Hold | Underperform | $49.98 | ||||
| BMO Capital Markets | Downgrade | NYSE:CLP | Colonial Properties | Market Perform | Underperform | $18.00 | $21.00 | 1.5% Upside | $20.69 | |
| Oppenheimer | Downgrade | NYSE:COL | Rockwell Collins | Outperform | Perform | $58.00 | 3.4% Upside | $56.08 | ||
| Deutsche Bank | Downgrade | NASDAQ:CREE | Cree | Buy | Hold | $33.01 | ||||
| Chardan Capital Makrets | Downgrade | NASDAQ:EZCH | EZchip | Hold | Sell | $38.69 | ||||
| Chardan Capital | Downgrade | NASDAQ:EZCH | EZchip | Sell | $38.69 | |||||
| Caris & Co. | Downgrade | NYSE:GES | Guess | Above Average | Average | $23.96 | ||||
| Davenport | Downgrade | NASDAQ:INGR | Ingredion | Buy | Neutral | $65.06 | ||||
| BMO Capital Markets | Downgrade | NYSE:MAA | Mid America Apartment Communities | Outperform | Market Perform | $77.00 | $65.00 | 3.5% Upside | $62.83 | |
| UBS AG | Downgrade | NASDAQ:STWRY | SOFTWARE AG S/ADR | Buy | Neutral | $10.60 | ||||
| Jefferies Group | Downgrade | NYSE:TKR | Timken | Buy | Hold | $45.00 | 2.7% Downside | $46.23 |
Price Target Changes
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| FBR Capital | Boost Price Target | NYSE:ANN | ANN | Outperform | $35.00 | $39.00 | 20.3% Upside | $32.43 | ||
| Argus | Boost Price Target | NASDAQ:BIIB | Biogen Idec | Buy | $155.00 | $160.00 | 7.1% Upside | $149.46 | ||
| Goldman Sachs | Set Price Target | NASDAQ:INTC | Intel | $20.00 | $16.00 | 19.7% Downside | $19.93 | |||
| Jefferies Group | Lower Price Target | NASDAQ:MSFT | Microsoft Corp | Hold | Hold | $34.00 | $31.00 | 13.3% Upside | $27.36 | |
| Compass Point | Boost Price Target | NYSE:PHM | PulteGroup | Buy | $19.00 | $21.00 | 23.5% Upside | $17.00 |
New Coverage
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| MLV Capital | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:ACRE | Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp | Buy | $19.00 | 20.3% Upside | $15.80 | |||
| Stephens | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:ADM | Archer Daniels Midland Company | Equal Weight | $26.60 | |||||
| SunTrust | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:ALTR | Altera | Neutral | $33.00 | 2.2% Upside | $32.30 | |||
| Jefferies Group | Initiated Coverage | LON:BSY | British Sky Broadcasting Group | underperform | $10.40 | N/A | ||||
| UBS AG | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:CHTR | Charter Communications | Buy | $83.00 | 18.1% Upside | $70.29 | |||
| Barclays Capital | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:DCIX | Diana Containerships | Equal Weight | $7.00 | 8.0% Upside | $6.48 | |||
| Credit Agricole | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:EMC | EMC Corp. | Buy | $28.00 | 12.6% Upside | $24.86 | |||
| Imperial Capital | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:ES | EnergySolutions | Outperform | $3.22 | |||||
| MKM Partners | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:FCS | Fairchild Semiconductor International | Buy | $16.00 | 23.8% Upside | $12.92 | |||
| UBS AG | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:JAZZ | Jazz Pharmaceuticals | Buy | $64.00 | 23.3% Upside | $51.91 | |||
| Barclays Capital | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:KSU | Kansas City Southern | Equal Weight | $81.00 | 1.9% Upside | $79.50 | |||
| Citigroup | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:LINE | Linn Energy, LLC | Buy | $43.00 | 9.6% Upside | $39.25 | |||
| Citigroup | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:LNCO | LinnCo LLC | Buy | $41.50 | 7.2% Upside | $38.70 | |||
| Nomura | Initiated Coverage | LON:MAB | Mitchells & Butlers plc | neutral | $5.15 | 68.4% Downside | N/A | |||
| SunTrust | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:MXIM | Maxim Integrated Products | Buy | $28.85 | |||||
| Credit Agricole | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:NTAP | NetApp | Underperform | $32.00 | 2.0% Upside | $31.36 | |||
| SunTrust | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:NXPI | NXP Semiconductors | Buy | $30.00 | 24.0% Upside | $24.19 | |||
| Ladenburg Thalmann | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:OAS | Oasis Petroleum | Buy | $36.00 | 19.7% Upside | $30.08 | |||
| MKM Partners | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:ONNN | ON Semiconductor | Buy | $8.00 | 24.2% Upside | $6.44 | |||
| Morgan Stanley | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:PPG | PPG | Equal Weight | $136.00 | 11.6% Upside | $121.90 | |||
| HSBC | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:RDA | Rda Microelectronics | Neutral | $11.50 | 12.2% Upside | $10.25 | |||
| Wedbush | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:RGLS | Regulus Therapeutics | Outperform | $10.00 | 111.0% Upside | $4.74 | |||
| UBS AG | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:RIGL | Rigel Pharmaceuticals | Neutral | $9.00 | 8.2% Upside | $8.32 | |||
| Morgan Stanley | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:RPM | RPM International | Overweight | $134.00 | 383.4% Upside | $27.72 | |||
| Ladenburg Thalmann | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:SARA | Saratoga Resources, Inc. Common Stock | Buy | $3.80 | |||||
| Morgan Stanley | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:SHW | Sherwin Williams | Equal Weight | $169.00 | 7.5% Upside | $157.15 | |||
| Barclays Capital | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:TEU | Box Ships | Equal Weight | $7.00 | 38.9% Upside | $5.04 | |||
| SunTrust | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:TXN | Texas Instruments | Reduce | $26.00 | 11.7% Downside | $29.46 | |||
| Northland Securities | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:ULTI | The Ultimate Software Group | Outperform | $110.00 | 19.3% Upside | $92.17 | |||
| Morgan Stanley | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:VAL | The Valspar | Underweight | $60.00 | 2.6% Downside | $61.60 | |||
| Credit Agricole | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:VMW | VMware | Buy | $109.00 | 21.7% Upside | $89.56 | |||
| Barclays Capital | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:WX | WuXi PharmaTech | Overweight | $16.10 | |||||
| SunTrust | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:XLNX | Xilinx | Neutral | $34.53 |
Ratings Reiterations
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| Exane BNP Paribas | Reiterated Rating | LON:AAL | Anglo American | neutral | $31.99 | N/A | ||||
| Wunderlich | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:ABMD | Abiomed | Buy | $29.00 | 104.7% Upside | $14.17 | |||
| Goldman Sachs | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:AMAT | Applied Materials | Buy | Buy | $10.36 | ||||
| Exane BNP Paribas | Reiterated Rating | LON:AQP | Aquarius Platinum Ltd | neutral | $0.80 | N/A | ||||
| UBS AG | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:ARO | Aeropostale | Neutral | $14.00 | 0.8% Downside | $14.12 | |||
| FBR Capital | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:ATML | Atmel | Outperform | $7.00 | 32.1% Upside | $5.30 | |||
| Goldman Sachs | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:BLOX | Infoblox | Neutral | Neutral | $20.00 | $13.95 | |||
| JPMorgan Chase | Reiterated Rating | LON:BNZL | Bunzl | overweight | $19.99 | N/A | ||||
| HSBC | Reiterated Rating | LON:BVS | Bovis Homes Group | overweight | $12.04 | N/A | ||||
| Exane BNP Paribas | Reiterated Rating | LON:ENRC | Eurasian Natural Resources Corp | neutral | $5.44 | N/A | ||||
| Sanford C. Bernstein | Reiterated Rating | LON:GLEN | Glencore International | Market Perform | $6.40 | N/A | ||||
| Investec | Reiterated Rating | LON:HRG | Hogg Robinson Group | Under Review | N/A | |||||
| NMAS 1 Agencia de Valores | Reiterated Rating | LON:IAG | International Consolidated Airlines | sell | $2.33 | 80.3% Downside | N/A | |||
| Jefferies Group | Reiterated Rating | LON:KGF | Kingfisher | buy | $5.28 | N/A | ||||
| Exane BNP Paribas | Reiterated Rating | LON:LMI | Lonmin | restricted | N/A | |||||
| Wedbush | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:NCR | NCR Corp. | Neutral | $23.00 | 4.0% Downside | $23.96 | |||
| Benchmark Co. | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:OSIS | OSI Systems | Buy | $90.00 | 48.1% Upside | $60.77 | |||
| Canaccord Genuity | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:P | Pandora Media | Buy | $16.00 | 95.6% Upside | $8.18 | |||
| Macquarie | Reiterated Rating | LON:PAG | Paragon Group of Cos | neutral | $3.89 | 86.3% Downside | N/A | |||
| Investec | Reiterated Rating | LON:PHNX | Phoenix Group Holdings | hold | $2.67 | N/A | ||||
| JPMorgan Chase | Reiterated Rating | LON:RPC | RPC Group | overweight | $8.13 | N/A | ||||
| Jefferies Group | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:RUE | Rue21 | Buy | Buy | $28.52 | ||||
| Barclays Capital | Reiterated Rating | LON:SN | Smith & Nephew | equalweight | $10.64 | 41.3% Downside | N/A | |||
| Macquarie | Reiterated Rating | LON:STJ | St. James's Place plc | neutral | $6.53 | 79.7% Downside | N/A | |||
| Lazard | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:TDC | Teradata | Buy | $78.00 | 26.7% Upside | $61.55 | |||
| William Blair | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:TKR | Timken | Market Perform | $46.23 | |||||
| Cowen | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:VIVO | Meridian Bioscience | Outperform | $20.56 | |||||
| Nomura | Reiterated Rating | LON:WMH | William Hill | reduce | $4.16 | 90.1% Downside | N/A | |||
| Sanford C. Bernstein | Reiterated Rating | LON:XTA | Xstrata | Outperform | $19.99 | N/A |
Earnings Results
Earnings For Thursday, November 29| Ticker | Company | EPS | Estimate | YoY Revenue Growth | |
| NYSE:ATV | Acorn International | ($0.04) | $0.00 | ||
| NASDAQ:BECN | Beacon Roofing Supply | $0.60 | $0.60 | 3.8% | |
| NYSE:BKS | Barnes & Noble | ($0.04) | ($0.04) | -.4% | |
| NASDAQ:CBRL | Cracker Barrel | $1.08 | $1.06 | 4.9% | |
| NYSE:FRO | Frontline | ($0.63) | ($0.48) | ||
| NYSE:GIL | Gildan Activewear | $0.80 | $0.79 | 16.6% | |
| NASDAQ:ISLE | Isle of Capri | ($0.11) | $0.04 | -9.8% | |
| NYSE:KR | Kroger | $0.46 | $0.42 | 5.9% | |
| NASDAQ:LQDT | Liquidity Services | $0.40 | $0.36 | 54.4% | |
| NASDAQ:LTXC | LTX-Credence | $0.03 | $0.04 | 27.8% | |
| NASDAQ:MAGS | Magal Security Syste | $0.11 | $0.00 | ||
| NYSE:NJR | New Jersey Resources | ($0.27) | ($0.26) | -15.3% | |
| NASDAQ:SCMR | Sycamore Networks | ($0.14) | ($0.16) | ||
| NASDAQ:SHIP | Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. | ($3.51) | $0.00 | ||
| NYSE:TIF | Tiffany & Co. | $0.49 | $0.63 | 3.8% |
Earnings For Wednesday, November 28
| Ticker | Company | EPS | Estimate | YoY Revenue Growth | |
| NYSE:AEO | American Eagle | $0.41 | $0.00 | 11.1% | |
| NYSE:ANN | ANN | $0.76 | $0.00 | 8.6% | |
| NYSE:ARO | Aeropostale | $0.31 | $0.00 | 1.6% | |
| NASDAQ:BLOX | Infoblox | $0.06 | $0.00 | 25.8% | |
| NASDAQ:CASC | Cascade | $1.16 | $0.00 | ||
| NYSE:CFI | Culp | $0.31 | $0.00 | ||
| NASDAQ:CWTR | Coldwater Creek | ($0.45) | $0.00 | .3% | |
| NASDAQ:ELTK | Eltek Ltd | $0.02 | $0.00 | ||
| NASDAQ:EXPR | Express | $0.20 | $0.00 | -3.8% | |
| NYSE:FSC | Fifth Street Finance | $0.27 | $0.00 | ||
| NASDAQ:GAGA | Le Gaga | $0.35 | $0.00 | ||
| NYSE:GES | Guess | $0.43 | $0.00 | -2.2% | |
| NYSE:GIB | CGI Group | $0.37 | $0.00 | 60.0% | |
| NASDAQ:GMAN | Gordmans Stores | $0.21 | $0.00 | 8.7% | |
| NASDAQ:JASO | JA Solar | ($0.30) | $0.00 | -32.8% | |
| NASDAQ:JOSB | Jos A Bank Clothiers | $0.47 | $0.00 | 11.1% | |
| NASDAQ:LEDS | SemiLEDS | ($0.60) | $0.00 | 3.8% | |
| NYSE:LZB | La-Z-Boy Incorporate | $0.12 | $0.00 | 4.7% | |
| NYSE:MOV | Movado Group | $0.67 | $0.00 | 12.3% | |
| NASDAQ:MPAA | Motorcar Parts of America | ($0.32) | $0.00 | ||
| NYSE:NWY | New York & Company | ($0.06) | $0.00 | 1.2% | |
| NYSE:PLL | Pall | $0.68 | $0.00 | -3.6% | |
| NASDAQ:PNTR | Pointer Telocation | $0.04 | $0.00 | ||
| NASDAQ:POST | POST HOLDINGS INC | $0.35 | $0.00 | 4.0% | |
| NYSE:RUE | Rue21 | $0.41 | $0.00 | 15.6% | |
| NASDAQ:SMTC | Semtech | $0.53 | $0.00 | 29.9% | |
| NYSE:SPH | Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. | ($1.29) | $0.00 | 24.6% | |
| NYSE:TFM | The Fresh Market | $0.25 | $0.00 | 22.2% | |
| NASDAQ:TIVO | TiVo | $0.44 | $0.00 | 17.8% | |
| NASDAQ:WDAY | Workday | ($0.39) | $0.00 | 98.9% | |
| NASDAQ:WILC | G. Willi-Food International Limited | $0.25 | $0.00 | ||
| NYSE:YGE | Yingli Green Energy Hold. Co. | ($0.40) | $0.00 | -46.7% |
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