| Company Name | Exchange | Ticker | Last Price | Market Cap | Recommendation | Analyst Name | Rating Company | Target Price |
Upside/ Downside (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc | TSX | GS | 31.25 | 927.4 | Upgrade to outperform from sector perform | Shubha Rahman Khan | National Bank Financial | 37.00 | 18.4% |
| AutoCanada Inc | TSX | ACQ | 74.54 | 1,825.6 | Upgrade to outperform from sector perform | Steven Arthur | RBC Capital Markets | 92.00 | 23.4% |
| Input Capital Corp | TSXV | INP | 2.32 | 142.1 | Upgrade to buy from speculative buy | Brian D Pow | Acumen Capital Finance | 4.50 | 94.0% |
| Alter Nrg Corp | TSX | NRG | 2.60 | 73.3 | Initiate with speculative buy | Macmurray Whale | Cormark Securities Inc. | 5.60 | 115.4% |
| UEX Corp | TSX | UEX | 0.41 | 92.3 | Downgrade to neutral from buy | David A Talbot | Dundee Securities Corp | 0.70 | 72.8% |
National Bank Financial upgraded Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc (TSX: GS), a wealth management company that provides discretionary investment management services to high-net-worth private clients and institutional investors, to outperform from sector perform increasing its price target to C$37.00 from the earlier target of C$33.00, indicating an upside of 18.4% from current levels.
RBC Capital Markets upgraded AutoCanada Inc (TSX: ACQ), a multi-location automobile dealership groups, to outperform from sector perform increasing its price target to C$92.00 from C$91.00, indicating an upside of 23.4% from current levels.
Input Capital Corp (TSXV: INP), an agricultural commodity streaming company with primary focus on serving the domestic market for canola production, was upgraded to buy from speculative buy at Acumen Capital Finance increasing its price target to C$4.50 from C$3.60, indicating an upside of 94% from current levels.
Cormark Securities Inc. initiated coverage on Alter Nrg Corp (TSX: NRG), provides and pursues alternative clean and renewable energy solutions through plasma gasification, with a speculative buy rating assigning a 12-month price target of C$5.60, indicating an upside of 115.4% from current levels.
Dundee Securities Corp downgraded UEX Corp (TSX: UEX), a uranium exploration and development company, to neutral from buy lowering its price target to C$0.70 from C$0.80, indicating an upside of 72.8% from current levels.
| Company Name | Exchange | Ticker | Last Price | Market Cap | Recommendation | Analyst Name | Rating Company | Target Price |
Upside/ Downside (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rackspace Hosting Inc | NYSE | RAX | 31.69 | 4,502.3 | Upgrade to neutral from underperform | Mark Kelleher | D.A. Davidson & Co | 33.00 | 4.1% |
| Mellanox Technologies Ltd | NASDAQ | MLNX | 35.77 | 1,593.6 | Upgrade to buy from hold | James Kisner | Jefferies | 50.00 | 39.8% |
| Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp | NYSE | KOG | 14.91 | 3,973.8 | Upgrade to buy from hold | Jason A Wangler | Wunderlich Securities | 17.70 | 18.7% |
| Proofpoint Inc | NASDAQ | PFPT | 33.26 | 1,230.3 | Initiate with buy/attractive | Matthew Niknam | Goldman Sachs | 42.00 | 26.3% |
| Uranerz Energy Corp | NYSE | URZ | 1.39 | 119.9 | Downgrade to sell from neutral | David A Talbot | Dundee Securities Corp | 1.39 | 0.0% |
D.A. Davidson & Co upgraded Rackspace Hosting Inc (NYSE: RAX), an open cloud company offering a diverse portfolio of cloud computing services, including public, dedicated and private cloud, and hybrid hosting, to neutral from underperform with a price target of 4.1% from current levels.
Mellanox Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: MLNX), a fabless semiconductor company that produces and supplies high-performance interconnects products, was upgraded to buy from hold at Jefferies increasing its price target to $50.00 from $37.00, indicating an upside of 39.8% from current levels.
Wunderlich Securities upgraded Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp (NYSE: KOG), an independent energy company focused on the exploration, exploitation, acquisition and production of crude oil and natural gas, to buy from hold raising its price target to $17.70 from $14.00, indicating an upside of 18.7% from current levels.
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage on Proofpoint Inc (NASDAQ: PFPT), a security-as-a-service vendor that delivers data protection solutions, which helps medium- and large-sized organizations, with a buy/attractive rating assigning a 12-month price target of $42.00, indicating an upside of 26.3% from current levels.
Dundee Securities Corp downgraded Uranerz Energy Corp (NYSE: URZ), a uranium company focused on commercial in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium production, to sell from neutral lowering its price target to $1.39 from the earlier target of $1.49 per share.
