Best Buy (BBY) was upgraded to buy from neutral at Rochdale.

Kaufman Bros. upgraded Amazon.com (AMZN) to buy from hold as it finds the risk/reward on shares attractive following the recent pullback and expects the company to report strong Q4 results. Kaufman maintains a $155 price target on the stock.

Barrington Research upgrades Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW) from Market Perform to Outperform. Price target $55.

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) Today we have seen two positive research reports on the company. A boutique firm called Wunderlich giving this a “Buy” rating. The more important upgrade is a debt upgrade from Standard & Poor’s. A third call is not an upgrade, but is another positive call.

Earnings season continues with Altria (ALTR), Amazon.com (AMZN), AstraZeneca (AZN), AT&T (T), Baxter (BAX), Bristol-Myers (BMY), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Eli Lilly (LLY), JetBlue (JBLU), Microsoft (MSFT), 3M (MMM), Motorola (MOT), Nokia (NOK), Procter & Gamble (PG), Time Warner Cable (TWC), and Tyco (TYC) all announcing.

Corning (GLW): She upgrades to Buy from Hold, with a new target of $23, up from $18, asserting that the LCD cycle likely bottomed in Q4. She sees upside to Street EPS, and expected multiple expansion.

Cramer called the remarkable bull market strong for everything recovering from autos to chemicals to chips to healthcare. Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE), Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: STD), China Unicom (NYSE: CHU), and Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) were his developing nation picks. Nordic American Tanker Shipping (NYSE: NAT), Statoil (NYSE: STO), BHP Billiton (NYSE: [...]

Netflix Inc. saw its shares jump more than 20% Thursday morning — to a new all-time high — after better-than-expected fourth-quarter results caused several brokers to upgrade the stock.
The stock was up $10.27 at $61.24 in morning trading. That helped the shares recover ground lost over the last three months and set a new record [...]

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Netgear (NTGR): upgraded to Neutral from Sell, with a new target of $22, up from $18.50, on stabilizing demand from small and mid-sized businesses and from Europe, as well as tight cost controls.