Notable Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (NYSE: JBL) (TSX: HBM)

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The following stocks were upgraded/downgraded on July 22, 2014
Company Name Exchange Ticker Last Price Market Cap Recommendation Analyst Name Rating Company Target Price Upside/
Downside (%)
HudBay Minerals Inc TSX HBM 11.21 2,163.8 Upgrade to buy from hold Greg Barnes TD Securities 13.50 20.4%
Mega Precious Metals Inc TSXV MGP 0.11 13.5 Initiate with speculative buy Peter Campbell Jennings Capital 0.25 138.1%
TECSYS Inc TSX TCS 6.70 77.3 Initiate with buy Gabriel Leung Paradigm Capital Inc 10.00 49.3%
ViXS Systems Inc TSX VXS 1.92 96.7 Initiate with buy Eyal Ofir Clarus Securities 3.30 71.9%
Celestica Inc TSX CLS 12.54 2,237.2 Downgrade to sector underperform from sector perform Daniel Chan Scotia Capital 12.10 -3.5%

TD Securities upgraded HudBay Minerals Inc (TSX: HBM), an integrated mining company engaged in producing copper concentrate and zinc metal and focuses on the discovery, production and marketing of base and precious metals, to buy from hold increasing its price target to C$13.50 from C$10.00, indicating an upside of 20.4% from current levels.

Jennings Capital initiated coverage on Mega Precious Metals Inc (TSXV: MGP), a Canadian junior exploration and development company, with a speculative buy assigning a 12-month price target of C$0.25, indicating an upside of 138.1% from current levels.

Coverage on TECSYS Inc (TSX: TCS), a supply chain management (SCM) provider of powerful warehouse, transportation and distribution management software solutions, was initiated with a buy rating at Paradigm Capital Inc with a 12-month price target of C$10.00, indicating an upside of 49.3% from current levels.

Clarus Securities initiated coverage on ViXS Systems Inc (TSX: VXS), engaged in designing media processing semiconductor solutions for the broadcasting and consumer electronics industries, with a buy rating assigning a 12-month price target of C$3.30, indicating an upside of 71.9% from current levels.

Scotia Capital downgraded Celestica Inc (TSX: CLS), a provider of supply chain solutions globally to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and service providers in the communications, consumer, computing and diversified end markets, to sector underperform from sector perform lowering its price target to C$12.10 from C$12.80, indicating a downside of 3.5% from current levels.

The following stocks were upgraded/downgraded on July 22, 2014
Company Name Exchange Ticker Last Price Market Cap Recommendation Analyst Name Rating Company Target Price Upside/
Downside (%)
Jabil Circuit Inc NYSE JBL 21.12 4,220.4 Upgrade to sector outperform from sector perform Daniel Chan Scotia Capital 24.20 14.6%
Spansion Inc NYSE CODE 22.44 1,354.7 Upgrade to buy from hold Sundeep Bajikar Jefferies 28.00 24.8%
Mellanox Technologies Ltd NASDAQ MLNX 38.11 1,697.8 Initiate with outperform Ashok Kumar Imperial Capital LLC 46.00 20.7%
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc NYSE BR 40.95 4,941.5 Initiate with outperform Patrick O’Shaughnessy Raymond James 46.00 12.3%
Cadence Design Systems Inc NASDAQ CDNS 17.03 4,939.4 Downgrade to neutral from overweight Sterling Auty JPMorgan 18.00 5.7%

Scotia Capital upgraded Jabil Circuit Inc (NYSE: JBL), a providers of worldwide electronic manufacturing services and solutions, to sector outperform from sector perform raising its price target to $24.20 from $21.3, indicating an upside of 14.6% from current levels.

Spansion Inc (NYSE: CODE), a provider of flash memory-based embedded systems solutions, was upgraded to buy from hold at Jefferies increasing its price target to $28.00 from $21.00, indicating an upside of 24.8% from current levels.

Imperial Capital LLC initiated coverage Mellanox Technologies Ltd on (NASDAQ: MLNX), a fabless semiconductor company that produces and supplies high-performance interconnects products, with an outperform rating assigning a 12-month price target of $46.00, indicating an upside of 20.7% from current levels.

Coverage on Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc (NYSE: BR), a global provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions to banks/broker-dealers, mutual funds and corporate issuers, was initiated with an outperform rating at Raymond James with a 12-month price target of 46.00, indicating an upside of 12.3% from current levels.

JPMorgan downgraded Cadence Design Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CDNS), engaged in developing electronic design automation (EDA), software, hardware, and silicon intellectual property (IP), to neutral from overweight with a 12-month price target of $18.00, indicating an upside of 5.7% from current levels.

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