Analyst calls: AOL upgraded
Green Mountain is downgraded to 'neutral,' and Wells Fargo is upgraded to 'buy.'
Information provided by Theflyonthewall.comMonday's noteworthy upgrades include:
- AOL (AOL) upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform at RBC Capital
- Banco Bilbao (BBVA) upgraded to Neutral from Underweight at JPMorgan
- Nike (NKE) upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan
- Questar (STR) upgraded to Equal Weight from Underweight at Morgan Stanley
- Novo Nordisk (NVO) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Nomura
- Tesoro (TSO) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at BofA/Merrill
- Buckeye Partners (BPL) upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Citigroup
- VMware (VMW) upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Evercore
- Kroger (KR) upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Goldman
- U.S. Bancorp (USB) upgraded to Hold from Sell at Stifel Nicolaus
- Wells Fargo (WFC) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel Nicolaus
Elan (ELN) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS- Fossil (FOSL) downgraded to Hold from Buy at Benchmark Co
- Sprint (S) downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at Atlantic Equities
- Kimberly Clark (KMB) downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight at Barclays
- Green Mountain (GMCR) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Dougherty
- Lufkin (LUFK) downgraded to Hold from Buy at Dahlman Rose
- Baker Hughes (BHI) downgraded to Hold from Buy at Dahlman Rose
- LinkedIn (LNKD) downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Northland Securities
- Amgen (AMGN) downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at William Blair
- KeyCorp (KEY) downgraded at Stifel Nicolaus
- Comerica (CMA) downgraded at Stifel Nicolaus
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