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Semiconductor equipment giant ASML beat estimates for the second quarter and raised its outlook for the full year. ASML stock rose on the news.

Investing.com -- Jefferies on Monday has upgraded Shopify to Buy from Hold and raised its price target to $160 from $140, saying the e-commerce platform is well positioned to benefit from the rise of agentic AI commerce while expecting stronger-than-consensus second-quarter results and additional growth catalysts over the next year.

Investing.com -- Truist Securities upgraded Biogen to Buy from Hold and raised its price target to $235 from $190, citing growing confidence in the company’s Alzheimer’s and immunology pipeline ahead of several major clinical data readouts over the next two years.

Seagate Technology stock rose Friday, bouncing back from a recent pullback. "With the recent market pullback and increasing confidence in what we view as a path to plus-$50 earnings-per-share and significant (capital) return capacity ahead, we upgrade STX to overweight with a $1,100 price target," Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers said in a note for clients. Rakers previously held a neutral equal-weight view for Seagate and a 900 price target.

Investing.com -- Citi upgraded Knight-Swift Transportation and Saia to Buy and Old Dominion Freight Line to Neutral in a note Thursday, reversing recent downgrades after a pullback in trucking stock prices created sufficient upside to justify the rating changes.

TeraWulf shares rose more than 12% in morning trade after Morgan Stanley raised its price target and maintained an 'Overweight' rating.

Investing.com -- Occidental Petroleum was upgraded to "Outperform" from "Underperform" by Evercore ISI, which also raised its price target to $65 from $58, arguing the oil producer is poised to benefit from a stronger balance sheet and improved capital efficiency after an extended period of underperformance.

Analysts with Bank of America Securities upped their price target for shares of the blue-chip tech stock.

Shares of major cybersecurity names are rallying in Monday’s midday session. CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ:CRWD) stock is up 5% to $204 and change, leading the group higher. Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) shares are climbing 4% to $363, and Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) stock is up 4% to $147. The Amplify Cybersecurity ETF (NYSE ARCA:HACK) is also higher, with ... CrowdStrike Surges 5%, Palo Alto and Okta Gain 4% as Cybersecurity Stocks Rally on Analyst Upgrades

Investing.com -- Bank of America on Monday upgraded T-Mobile U.S. to Buy from Neutral, reflecting a view that the market is overreacting to concerns about low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite competition, with T-Mobile carrying the lowest exposure to that threat among major U.S. carriers.

American Airlines stock has had a rough few years on Wall Street. Shares slid from the mid-$50s in 2018 to $18.15 at the time of writing. Now, one of the airline's longtime bulls has just given shareholders a reason to pay attention again. Morgan Stanley analyst Ravi Shanker refreshed ...

Palantir stock extended gains on Thursay after an upgrade at DA Davidson.

Investing.com -- Wolfe Research upgraded Chevron to "Outperform" from "Peer Perform," saying a recent pullback in the oil major's shares has created an attractive entry point as improving long-term free cash flow prospects are not fully reflected in the stock price.

Investing.com -- Apple Intelligence features are failing to accelerate iPhone upgrade activity, according to a UBS survey of more than 7,500 smartphone users across five countries, which found declining enthusiasm for AI as a purchasing trigger even as overall purchase intent held up in key Western markets.

Investing.com -- Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ:RIVN) shares rose 5% Thursday following the company’s release of second quarter 2026 production and delivery figures and an upward revision to its full-year delivery guidance.

D.A. Davidson upgraded Palantir stock to buy from neutral on views that it's a better option for enterprises than OpenAI or Anthropic.

Investing.com -- Guggenheim Securities upgraded shares of Salesforce, Check Point Software Technologies and ServiceNow to Buy, arguing that investor concerns over artificial intelligence have driven software valuations to overly pessimistic levels despite limited evidence of severe business disruption.

Advanced Energy stock is near a buy point as the semiconductor equipment firm scored a fresh buy rating. But AEIS stock fell Wednesday.

Tech bull Dan Ives of Wedbush initiated coverage of SpaceX with an Outperform rating and a $190 price target, weighing in on a stock that has whipsawed investors in the three weeks since its record-setting initial public offering. Ives sees SpaceX as a player in the hyperscaler wars too. 

Analysts at Wedbush gave SpaceX an "outperform" rating with a price target of $190 a share. The stock rose 2% on Wednesday morning.

Bernstein analyst Mark Newman raised his price target on SanDisk (SNDK) to $3,000 from $1,700 this week, while keeping an Outperform rating on the shares. Newman is a 5-star analyst on TipRanks, ranking 91st out of more than 12,300 Wall Street analysts with an 80% success rate on his calls. That ...

Despite rising more than 800% this year, Sandisk stock still has room to run much higher, a Wall Street analyst says.

Investing.com -- BlackRock Inc. has downgraded its view on emerging-market equities to neutral from overweight for the next six to 12 months, citing concentration risks in artificial intelligence-linked companies, according to its 2026 mid-year global investment outlook released by the BlackRock Investment Institute.

AI is supplanting the consumer as the driver of US economic growth.

Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley upgraded Qualcomm to Equal-weight from Underweight and increased its price target to $231 from $146 in a note to clients on Thursday after the chipmaker's investor day revealed a $5 billion data center revenue forecast for fiscal 2027 that the bank said "clearly pushes them into the AI beneficiaries category."

Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley upgraded CDW Corporation to Overweight and raised price targets across several IT hardware names, arguing that enterprise server demand is proving far more resilient than expected as companies accelerate investments in AI infrastructure and data center modernization.

Investing.com -- Piper Sandler upgraded semiconductor design software maker Synopsys to Overweight from Neutral and raised its price target to $550 from $450, citing improving prospects for the company's intellectual property (IP) business as Intel's foundry ambitions gain traction.

On June 18, 2026, Marvell Technology drew investor attention with a price upgrade and renewed AI confidence.

Investing.com -- Monness, Crespi, Hardt upgraded Salesforce to Buy from Neutral in a note on Thursday, arguing that fears over artificial intelligence displacing the company are overblown and that the stock's decline has created a compelling entry point.

Investing.com -- Investing.com - Citi upgraded Albemarle shares to Buy from High Risk on Thursday, pointing to underappreciated growth opportunities in the lithium market despite recent spot price weakness. The bank kept its $225 price target on the stock.