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 22.11

+0.21 +0.96%
Volume: 6,913,190
Track ALTR

AMCC 7.68

+0.26 +3.50%
Volume: 1,046,978
Track AMCC

BRCM 30.77

+0.47 +1.55%
Volume: 7,580,662
Track BRCM

LSCC 2.64

+0.33 +14.29%
Volume: 3,184,727
Track LSCC

MRVL 18.06

+1.53 +9.26%
Volume: 27,745,183
Track MRVL

MU 8.45

+0.08 +0.96%
Volume: 27,533,691
Track MU

PMCS 8.75

+0.22 +2.58%
Volume: 3,338,479
Track PMCS

SMH 27.13

+0.37 +1.38%
Volume: 15,486,649
Track SMH

WFR 12.75

-0.06 -0.47%
Volume: 5,254,996
Track WFR

XLNX 23.37

+0.16 +0.69%
Volume: 7,921,276
Track XLNX


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