Analyst calls: Lululemon downgraded

KB Home and Lennar both upgraded to 'outperform.'

By MSN Money Partner Mar 19, 2013 11:01AM
 Stock market copyright Zurbar, age fotostocklogoInformation provided by The flyonthewall.com

Tuesday's noteworthy upgrades include: 
 
eBay (EBAY) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Canto
Toll Brothers (TOL) upgraded to Strong Buy from Outperform at Raymond James
KB Home (KBH) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Raymond James 
Lennar (LEN) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Raymond James
Yamana Gold (AUY) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Cowen
 


Tuesday's noteworthy downgrades include: 

BHP Billiton (BHP) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Goldman
Chesapeake (CHK) downgraded to Underperform from Neutral at Sterne Agee
Deere (DE) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS
Cardinal Health (CAH) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Lazard Capital
lululemon (LULU) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Sterne Agee 

Today's noteworthy initiations include: 

Yahoo! (YHOO) initiated with an Outperform at Raymond James
AOL (AOL) initiated with an Outperform at JMP Securities
Google (GOOG) initiated with an Outperform at JMP Securities
Facebook (FB) initiated with a Market Perform at JMP Securities
Amazon.com (AMZN) initiated with a Market Perform at JMP Securities


0Comments

DATA PROVIDERS

Copyright © 2013 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

Quotes are real-time for NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX. See delay times for other exchanges.

Fundamental company data and historical chart data provided by Thomson Reuters (click for restrictions). Real-time quotes provided by BATS Exchange. Real-time index quotes and delayed quotes supplied by Interactive Data Real-Time Services. Fund summary, fund performance and dividend data provided by Morningstar Inc. Analyst recommendations provided by Zacks Investment Research. StockScouter data provided by Verus Analytics. IPO data provided by Hoover's Inc. Index membership data provided by SIX Financial Information.

Japanese stock price data provided by Nomura Research Institute Ltd.; quotes delayed 20 minutes. Canadian fund data provided by CANNEX Financial Exchanges Ltd.

STOCK SCOUTER

StockScouter rates stocks from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best, using a system of advanced mathematics to determine a stock's expected risk and return. Ratings are displayed on a bell curve, meaning there will be fewer ratings of 1 and 10 and far more of 4 through 7.

128
128 rated 1
268
268 rated 2
471
471 rated 3
584
584 rated 4
656
656 rated 5
593
593 rated 6
673
673 rated 7
423
423 rated 8
262
262 rated 9
141
141 rated 10
12345678910

Top Picks

SYMBOLNAMERATING
ABTAbbott Laboratories10
AIGAmerican International Group Inc10
ATVIActivision Blizzard Inc10
CACA Inc10
CSCOCisco Systems Inc10
More
Fidelity Brokerage Services, Member NYSE, SIPC. (c) 2011 FMR LLC. All rights reserved

VIDEO ON MSN MONEY

ABOUT

Top Stocks provides analysis about the most noteworthy stocks in the market each day, combining some of the best content from around the MSN Money site and the rest of the Web.

Contributors include professional investors and journalists affiliated with MSN Money.

Follow us on Twitter @topstocksmsn.