Analyst Recommendations 08-31-11

The latest day’s analyst recommendations include several upgrades of homebuilder shares by UBS (NYSE: UBS), taking two stocks to buy and one to hold. Standpoint Research downgraded three companies Wednesday. Upgrades continue to outnumber downgrades as the recent drop in stocks has created opportunity in the opinion of several firms.

Analyst Recommendations

UPGRADES

Company	Analyst’s Firm	From	To
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL)	Hudson Square	Hold	Buy
CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX)	Davenport	Neutral	Buy
D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI)	UBS	Neutral	Buy
Lennar (NYSE: LEN)	UBS	Neutral	Buy
Meritage Homes (NYSE: MTH)	UBS	Sell	Neutral
Nu Skin (NYSE: NUS)	Wedbush	Neutral	Outperform
Tesoro (NYSE: TSO)	RBC Capital	Sector Perform	Outperform
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN)	Hudson Square	Hold	Buy

DOWNGRADES

Company	Analyst’s Firm	From	To
Coventry Healthy (NYSE: CVH)	Standpoint	Buy	Hold
MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS)	Standpoint	Buy	Hold
Sabesp (NYSE: SBS)	Standpoint	Buy	Hold
TriQuint Semi (Nasdaq: TQNT)	Barclays	Overweight	Equal Weight

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