Notable Analyst Rating Changes 5/15: JWN, ZLC, CBS, VAL Upgraded; AFL, ZZ, CCE, CYT Downgraded

May 15, 2009 10:08 AM EDT

StreetInsider.com Notable Analyst Rating Changes:

UPGRADES:
Piper Jaffray & Co. upgrades Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) from Neutral to Buy. Price target increased $1 to $25. Click here for full color on the upgrade.

Bank of America upgrades Zale (NYSE: ZLC) from Neutral to Buy and raises their price target from $1.60 to $5.

Barclays upgrades CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) from Underweight to Equalweight. Price target increased from $5 to $9.

Goldman Sachs upgrades Valspar Corp. (NYSE: VAL) from Neutral to Buy and added the stock to their Conviction Buy List.

For daily real-time Upgrades go to http://www.streetinsider.com/Upgrades

DOWNGRADES:
Morgan Stanley downgrades Aflac (NYSE: AFL) from Overweight to Equalweight.

Stifel Nicolaus and Raymond James downgrade Sealy (NYSE: ZZ) from Hold to Sell and from Strong Buy to Market Perform, respectively.

JPMorgan downgrades Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE) from Overweight to Neutral.

Goldman Sachs downgrades Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE: CYT) from Neutral to Sell, but raises its price target from $16 to $21.

For daily real-time Downgrades go to http://www.streetinsider.com/Downgrades

NEW COVERAGE:
Goldman Sachs resumes coverage on Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) with a Buy rating and $13 price target.

Stifel Nicolaus initiates coverage on BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) with a Hold.

Oppenheimer initiates coverage on Comverge (Nasdaq: COMV) with a Perform rating.

For daily real-time New Coverage go to http://www.streetinsider.com/New+Coverage


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AA 12.89

+0.00 +0.00%
Volume: 19,760,727
Track AA

AFL 42.19

-0.38 -0.89%
Volume: 2,832,457
Track AFL

BLK 227.51

+0.90 +0.40%
Volume: 172,124
Track BLK

CBS 12.72

-0.07 -0.55%
Volume: 20,199,301
Track CBS

CCE 19.72

+0.00 +0.00%
Volume: 3,231,424
Track CCE

COMV 12.45

+0.15 +1.22%
Volume: 180,238
Track COMV

CYT 35.45

+0.52 +1.49%
Volume: 477,981
Track CYT

JWN 33.93

+0.01 +0.03%
Volume: 3,135,733
Track JWN

VAL 26.92

+0.19 +0.71%
Volume: 558,273
Track VAL

ZLC 4.68

-0.18 -3.70%
Volume: 312,622
Track ZLC

ZZ 2.84

-0.01 -0.35%
Volume: 120,636
Track ZZ


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