Notable Analyst Rating Changes 8/27: GHL, DLTR, WHR, KNX, WAG, FWLT Upgraded; ATRO, JTX, SIGM, TREE Downgraded

August 27, 2009 11:05 AM EDT

UPGRADES:
Goldman upgrades shares of Greenhill & Co. (NYSE: GHL) from Sell to Neutral, also boosting its price target from $65 to $75.

Barclays upgrades Dollar Tree (Nasdaq: DLTR) from Equalweight to Overweight. Price target increased from $48 to $64. Wedbush Morgan also upgraded the stock from Underperform to Neutral.

Cowen & Co upgrades Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR) from Neutral to Outperform.

UBS upgrades Knight Transportation (NYSE: KNX) from Sell to Neutral.

Raymond James upgrades Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) from Market Perform to Outperform.

Sterne Agee upgrades Foster Wheeler (Nasdaq: FWLT) from Hold to Buy.

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

DOWNGRADES:
Jesup & Lamont downgrades Astronics Corp. (Nasdaq: ATRO) from Hold to Sell. Click here to see some more color on the downgrade.

Oppenheimer downgrades Jackson Hewitt (NYSE: JTX) from Outperform to Perform. Price target $7.50.

Collins Stewart downgrades Sigma Designs (Nasdaq: SIGM) from Buy to Hold. Here is the full report.

Stifel Nicolaus downgrades Tree.com (Nasdaq: TREE) from Hold to Sell.

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

NEW COVERAGE:
Citi initiates coverage on Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) with a Buy rating. Price target $21.

Stifel Nicolaus initiates coverage on Hologic (Nasdaq: HOLX) with a Buy. Price target $19.

Citi initiates coverage on EMC Corp (NYSE: EMC) with a Buy rating.

MKM Partners initiates coverage on Motorola (NYSE: MOT) with a Sell.

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


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ATRO 7.88

+0.23 +3.01%
Volume: 30,918
Track ATRO

DLTR 48.97

-1.61 -3.18%
Volume: 1,955,599
Track DLTR

EMC 16.83

+0.08 +0.48%
Volume: 11,414,259
Track EMC

FWLT 29.84

-0.51 -1.68%
Volume: 3,029,068
Track FWLT

GHL 81.65

+0.21 +0.26%
Volume: 167,108
Track GHL

HOLX 14.47

+0.05 +0.35%
Volume: 3,954,736
Track HOLX

JTX 4.14

+0.18 +4.55%
Volume: 390,749
Track JTX

KNX 17.01

+0.16 +0.95%
Volume: 497,678
Track KNX

MOT 8.01

-0.19 -2.32%
Volume: 38,976,429
Track MOT

SIGM 11.68

+0.35 +3.09%
Volume: 601,707
Track SIGM

TREE 6.45

+0.11 +1.74%
Volume: 45,464
Track TREE

WAG 38.89

-0.12 -0.31%
Volume: 5,294,360
Track WAG

WHR 74.16

-0.44 -0.59%
Volume: 1,158,344
Track WHR

WSM 20.32

-0.55 -2.64%
Volume: 2,571,597
Track WSM


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