Analyst Ratings
Upgrades
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| Morgan Stanley | Upgrade | NASDAQ:DLTR | Dollar Tree | Underweight | Equal Weight | $41.34 | ||||
| Jefferies Group | Upgrade | NASDAQ:FRAN | Francesca's | Hold | Buy | $35.00 | $38.00 | 50.2% Upside | $25.30 | |
| Sanford C. Bernstein | Upgrade | NYSE:FTE | France Telecom SA | Underperform | Market Perform | $10.59 | ||||
| UBS AG | Upgrade | NYSE:GFI | Gold Fields | Neutral | Buy | $11.68 | ||||
| Wells Fargo & Co. | Upgrade | NYSE:HNT | Health Net | Market Perform | Outperform | $23.85 | ||||
| Howard Weil | Upgrade | NYSE:MPO | Midstates Petroleum Company | Outperform | Focus Stock | $6.97 | ||||
| Needham & Company | Upgrade | NASDAQ:OMER | Omeros Corp | Hold | Buy | $10.00 | 37.2% Upside | $7.29 | ||
| Cantor Fitzgerald | Upgrade | NYSE:PSA | Public Storage | Hold | Buy | $143.50 | $160.00 | 12.3% Upside | $142.52 | |
| Bank of America | Upgrade | NASDAQ:PTNR | Partner Communications Company Ltd | Underperform | Buy | $6.30 | ||||
| RBC Capital | Upgrade | NASDAQ:SBAC | SBA Communications Corp | Outperform | Top Pick | $71.00 | $85.00 | 24.2% Upside | $68.42 | |
| BB&T | Upgrade | NYSE:SFD | Smithfield Foods | Hold | Buy | $22.23 | ||||
| Davy | Upgrade | LON:TPK | Travis Perkins | Outperform | N/A |
Downgrades
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| Deutsche Bank | Downgrade | NYSE:CAJ | Canon ADR | Buy | Hold | $35.18 | ||||
| Wells Fargo & Co. | Downgrade | NASDAQ:CECO | Career Education Corp. | Outperform | Market Perform | $2.99 | ||||
| Stifel Nicolaus | Downgrade | NYSE:COT | Cott | Buy | Hold | $10.00 | 16.3% Upside | $8.60 | ||
| Goldman Sachs | Downgrade | NYSE:DMD | Demand Media | Neutral | Sell | $12.00 | $9.00 | 2.5% Downside | $9.23 | |
| Citigroup | Downgrade | NYSE:DMD | Demand Media | Sell | $9.23 | |||||
| KeyBanc | Downgrade | NYSE:ESL | Esterline Technologies | Buy | Hold | $60.36 | ||||
| Robert W. Baird | Downgrade | NYSE:EXA | Exa Corp | Outperform | Neutral | $13.00 | $12.00 | 0.8% Upside | $11.91 | |
| Credit Suisse | Downgrade | NASDAQ:HENKY | HENKEL AG & CO KGAA S/ADR | Neutral | Underperform | $68.71 | ||||
| Goldman Sachs | Downgrade | NASDAQ:IACI | InterActiveCorp | Neutral | Sell | $53.00 | $42.00 | 11.0% Downside | $47.17 | |
| UBS AG | Downgrade | NASDAQ:IBDRY | Iberdrola SA | Buy | Neutral | $20.21 | ||||
| Northland Securities | Downgrade | NASDAQ:NXTM | Nxstage Medical | Outperform | Market Perform | $12.14 | ||||
| Jefferies Group | Downgrade | NYSE:PNM | PNM Resources | Buy | Hold | $25.00 | $21.50 | 1.8% Upside | $21.13 | |
| Macquarie | Downgrade | NYSE:RGC | Regal Entertainment | Outperform | Neutral | $16.00 | $15.00 | 1.8% Downside | $15.28 | |
| Cantor Fitzgerald | Downgrade | NYSE:SSS | Sovran Self Storage | Hold | Sell | $59.00 | $64.00 | 2.7% Upside | $62.30 | |
| Longbow Research | Downgrade | NYSE:TKR | Timken | Buy | Neutral | $45.12 | ||||
| Jefferies Group | Downgrade | NASDAQ:ZEUS | Olympic Steel | Buy | Hold | $22.00 | $21.00 | 6.2% Upside | $19.77 |
Price Target Changes
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| Stifel Nicolaus | Boost Price Target | NYSE:CSC | Computer Sciences | Buy | $39.00 | $47.00 | 19.7% Upside | $39.27 | ||
| Stifel Nicolaus | Lower Price Target | NYSE:EXA | Exa Corp | Buy | $16.00 | $13.50 | 13.4% Upside | $11.91 | ||
| Argus | Lower Price Target | NYSE:HLF | Herbalife | Buy | $76.00 | $56.00 | 22.7% Upside | $45.64 | ||
| Cantor Fitzgerald | Boost Price Target | NASDAQ:ISRG | Intuitive Surgical | Hold | Hold | $475.00 | $525.00 | 0.1% Downside | $525.41 | |
| SunTrust | Boost Price Target | NYSE:NOG | Northern Oil & Gas | Buy | $22.00 | $23.00 | 46.0% Upside | $15.75 | ||
| Citigroup | Boost Price Target | NYSE:RTN | Raytheon Company | Buy | $68.00 | $69.00 | 22.3% Upside | $56.41 | ||
| Mizuho | Boost Price Target | NASDAQ:RVBD | Riverbed Technology | Buy | $27.00 | $32.00 | 81.2% Upside | $17.66 | ||
| Cantor Fitzgerald | Boost Price Target | NYSE:VAR | Varian Medical Systems | Hold | $63.00 | $70.00 | 0.9% Upside | $69.38 |
New Coverage
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| KeyBanc | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:ALE | ALLETE | Buy | $39.21 | |||||
| Roth Capital | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:ALXA | Alexza Pharmaceuticals | Buy | $10.00 | 82.8% Upside | $5.47 | |||
| Capstone | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:ANAC | Anacor Pharmaceuticals | Buy | $5.29 | |||||
| Citigroup | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:BNS | Bank of Nova Scotia | Neutral | $55.91 | |||||
| Burrill Institutional Research | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:CBLI | Cleveland BioLabs | Outperform | $4.00 | 205.3% Upside | $1.31 | |||
| Longbow Research | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:CBOU | Caribou Coffee Company | Buy | $17.00 | 40.0% Upside | $12.14 | |||
| Global Hunter Securities | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:CLB | Core Labs | Buy | $135.00 | 31.7% Upside | $102.54 | |||
| Aegis | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:CYTR | CytRx | Buy | $8.00 | 304.0% Upside | $1.98 | |||
| Longbow Research | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:DNKN | Dunkin Brands Group | Buy | $40.00 | 26.4% Upside | $31.65 | |||
| Sanford C. Bernstein | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:GLW | Corning | Outperform | $12.15 | |||||
| Janney Capital | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:LGP | Lehigh Gas Partners | Buy | $24.00 | 24.0% Upside | $19.36 | |||
| Janney Montgomery Scott | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:LGP | Lehigh Gas Partners | Buy | $19.36 | |||||
| Raymond James | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:LGP | Lehigh Gas Partners | Outperform | $23.00 | 18.8% Upside | $19.36 | |||
| Robert W. Baird | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:LGP | Lehigh Gas Partners | Outperform | $26.00 | 34.3% Upside | $19.36 | |||
| Evercore Partners | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:MBFI | MB Financial | Overweight | $19.44 | |||||
| Barclays Capital | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:MDVN | Medivation | Equal Weight | $53.58 | |||||
| Janney Capital | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:MRCC | Monroe Capital Corp | Buy | $16.50 | 10.8% Upside | $14.89 | |||
| BB&T | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:MRCC | Monroe Capital Corp | Buy | $16.00 | 7.5% Upside | $14.89 | |||
| Janney Montgomery Scott | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:MRCC | Monroe Capital Corp | Buy | $14.89 | |||||
| First Analysis | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:NVDQ | Novadaq Technologies | Overweight | $12.00 | 35.7% Upside | $8.84 | |||
| Evercore Partners | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:PVTB | PrivateBancorp | Equal Weight | $16.39 | |||||
| Citigroup | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:RY | RBC Capital | Buy | $59.01 | |||||
| Longbow Research | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:SBUX | Starbucks | Buy | $63.00 | 21.6% Upside | $51.79 | |||
| Janney Montgomery Scott | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:SCM | Stellus Capital Investment Corp | Neutral | $15.36 | |||||
| Janney Capital | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:SCM | Stellus Capital Investment Corp | Neutral | $16.00 | 4.2% Upside | $15.36 | |||
| Credit Suisse | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:SPW | SPX Corp | Neutral | $68.56 | |||||
| Citigroup | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:TD | Toronto-Dominion Bank | Buy | $83.33 | |||||
| Longbow Research | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:THI | Tim Hortons | Buy | $60.00 | 30.5% Upside | $45.97 | |||
| Longbow Research | Initiated Coverage | NYSE:THS | TreeHouse Foods | Buy | $52.82 | |||||
| Evercore Partners | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:WTFC | Wintrust Financial | Equal Weight | $36.79 | |||||
| Longbow Research | Initiated Coverage | NASDAQ:WWAV | The WhiteWave Foods | Neutral | $15.73 |
Ratings Reiterations
| Firm | Action | Ticker | Company | Old Rating | New Rating | Old PT | New PT | Upside/Downside | Previous Close | |
| RBC Capital | Reiterated Rating | LON:AAL | Anglo American | Sector Perform | $25.76 | N/A | ||||
| Canaccord Genuity | Reiterated Rating | LON:ADN | Aberdeen Asset Management plc | Buy | $6.12 | N/A | ||||
| Investec | Reiterated Rating | LON:AIE | Anite | Buy | $2.42 | N/A | ||||
| Robert W. Baird | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:ALE | ALLETE | Outperform | $47.00 | 19.9% Upside | $39.21 | |||
| RBC Capital | Reiterated Rating | LON:ARM | ARM Holdings | Outperform | $13.37 | N/A | ||||
| Brean Murray | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:AVGO | Avago Technologies | Buy | $34.81 | |||||
| Barclays Capital | Reiterated Rating | LON:AZN | AstraZeneca | Equalweight | $49.92 | 4.5% Upside | N/A | |||
| Robert W. Baird | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:BMRN | Biomarin Pharm | Outperform | $54.00 | 10.9% Upside | $48.69 | |||
| Societe Generale | Reiterated Rating | LON:BP | BP plc | Hold | $7.73 | 81.2% Downside | N/A | |||
| Macquarie | Reiterated Rating | LON:BSY | British Sky Broadcasting Group | Outperform | $13.85 | N/A | ||||
| Macquarie | Reiterated Rating | LON:BT.A | BT Group | Underperform | $2.90 | N/A | ||||
| JPMorgan Chase | Reiterated Rating | LON:FCAM | F&C Asset Management | Neutral | $1.82 | N/A | ||||
| Nomura | Reiterated Rating | LON:GNK | Greene King | Neutral | $9.42 | 248.9% Upside | N/A | |||
| Societe Generale | Reiterated Rating | LON:GSK | GlaxoSmithKline | Buy | $29.31 | 32.3% Downside | N/A | |||
| Barclays Capital | Reiterated Rating | LON:HSBA | HSBC Holdings | Overweight | $11.76 | N/A | ||||
| Macquarie | Reiterated Rating | LON:ITV | ITV | Outperform | $1.85 | N/A | ||||
| Brean Murray | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:JAZZ | Jazz Pharmaceuticals | Buy | $81.00 | 55.6% Upside | $52.07 | |||
| Nomura | Reiterated Rating | LON:KGF | Kingfisher | Neutral | $4.62 | N/A | ||||
| UBS AG | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:LULU | Lululemon | Buy | $88.00 | 23.0% Upside | $71.52 | |||
| Cowen | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:LULU | Lululemon | Outperform | $71.52 | |||||
| Leerink Swann | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:MDCO | The Medicines Compan | Outperform | $28.00 | 25.8% Upside | $22.26 | |||
| Canaccord Genuity | Reiterated Rating | LON:NCC | NCC Group | Buy | $16.67 | N/A | ||||
| Jefferies Group | Reiterated Rating | LON:NTG | Northgate | Buy | $4.67 | 80.9% Downside | N/A | |||
| SunTrust | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:P | Pandora Media | Buy | $15.00 | 67.4% Upside | $8.96 | |||
| Arden Partners Ltd | Reiterated Rating | LON:PDG | Pendragon | Buy | $0.32 | N/A | ||||
| Capstone | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:PPO | Polypore | Buy | $49.00 | 23.0% Upside | $39.85 | |||
| Susquehanna | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:QCOM | QUALCOMM | Positive | $63.37 | |||||
| Sanford C. Bernstein | Reiterated Rating | LON:RDSB | Royal Dutch Shell Plc | Market Perform | $38.81 | N/A | ||||
| Credit Suisse | Reiterated Rating | LON:RIO | Rio Tinto | Outperform | $59.58 | 19.9% Upside | N/A | |||
| Deutsche Bank | Reiterated Rating | LON:RRS | Randgold Resources Ltd | Buy | $131.08 | N/A | ||||
| JPMorgan Chase | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:RUE | Rue21 | Overweight | $28.71 | |||||
| Exane BNP Paribas | Reiterated Rating | LON:SMIN | Smiths Group | Outperform | $19.81 | 21.0% Downside | N/A | |||
| Societe Generale | Reiterated Rating | LON:SN | Smith & Nephew | Sell | $9.50 | 46.7% Downside | N/A | |||
| Lazard | Reiterated Rating | NASDAQ:SNDK | SanDisk | Buy | $55.00 | 39.1% Upside | $39.53 | |||
| Macquarie | Reiterated Rating | LON:TALK | TalkTalk Telecom Group | Outperform | $4.51 | N/A | ||||
| Investec | Reiterated Rating | LON:TT | TUI Travel | Hold | $4.35 | N/A | ||||
| Atlantic Securities | Reiterated Rating | NYSE:UPS | United Parcel Service | Overweight | $72.27 | |||||
| Barclays Capital | Reiterated Rating | LON:WTB | Whitbread | Overweight | $40.66 | N/A |
Earnings Results
Earnings For Tuesday, December 4| Ticker | Company | EPS | Estimate | YoY Revenue Growth | |
| NYSE:AZO | AutoZone | $5.41 | $5.35 | 3.5% | |
| NYSE:BIG | Big Lots | ($0.10) | ($0.25) | -.4% | |
| NYSE:BMO | Bank of Montreal | $1.65 | $1.41 | 9.3% | |
| NYSE:MTN | Vail Resorts | ($1.70) | ($1.59) | .0% | |
| NYSE:TOL | Toll Brothers | $2.35 | $0.25 | 47.9% |
Earnings For Monday, December 3
| Ticker | Company | EPS | Estimate | YoY Revenue Growth | |
| NASDAQ:CONN | CONN'S | $0.35 | $0.00 | 10.6% | |
| NASDAQ:CWST | Casella Waste Systems | ($0.68) | $0.00 | -7.4% | |
| NYSE:EXA | Exa Corp | $0.02 | $0.00 | 8.7% | |
| NYSE:PBY | Pep Boys | ($0.13) | $0.00 | -2.4% |
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