Morgan Stanley Upgraded the Semiconductor Sector (SMH) to Attractive (BRCM, MRVL, MU, more)

May 18, 2009 7:40 AM EDT

Morgan Stanley upgraded the Semiconductor space (NYSE: SMH) from In-Line to Attractive.

The firm upgraded Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: MRVL) and Micron (NYSE: MU) from Equal Weight to Overweight.

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) was upgraded from Undrerweight to Neutral.

Altera Corp. (Nasdaq: ALTR), Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (Nasdaq: AMCC), Lattice Semiconductor (Nasdaq: LSCC), Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) were downgraded from Equal Weight to Underwight.

PMC-Sierra Inc. (Nasdaq: PMCS) was downgraded from Overweight to Equal Weight.


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ALTR 20.27

+0.50 +2.53%
Volume: 7,720,561
Track ALTR

AMCC 7.53

+0.24 +3.29%
Volume: 777,155
Track AMCC

BRCM 28.29

+1.41 +5.25%
Volume: 11,571,501
Track BRCM

LSCC 2.07

+0.06 +2.99%
Volume: 476,107
Track LSCC

MRVL 15.24

+0.51 +3.46%
Volume: 8,808,872
Track MRVL

MU 7.51

+0.43 +6.07%
Volume: 25,065,175
Track MU

PMCS 9.00

+0.22 +2.51%
Volume: 2,400,562
Track PMCS

SMH 25.27

+0.76 +3.10%
Volume: 12,628,500
Track SMH

WFR 12.98

+0.32 +2.53%
Volume: 2,927,888
Track WFR

XLNX 22.50

+0.61 +2.79%
Volume: 3,776,123
Track XLNX


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