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Dividend.com: Morning Playbook

Stock quotes in this article: BAC , UTX , DF , ITW , IBM , DELL , WMT , YHOO  

Investors did not get the Iranian election results they were hoping for and stocks are lower at the start of Monday trading. Let's take a look at what traders may want to put on their radar screens today:

Story Stocks

United Technologies(UTX): Stock a bit lower in the early going after reaffirming 2009 guidance.

Limited Brands, Inc.(LTD): Company looking to raise $500 million through senior notes offering.

Lincoln National Corporation(LNC): Announces $2 Billion offering of stock and debt.

Dean Foods Company(DF): Stock is lower after announcing acquisition Belgium's largest privately held food company.

Illinois Tool Works Inc.(ITW): Stock is lower despite raising profit guidance.

IBM Corp(IBM): Stock is lower as it gets set to launch its own cloud products.

Upgrades to Watch

Yahoo(YHOO): Upgraded to a buy at Citigroup. $21 price target.

Abbott Labs(ABT): Morgan Stanley raises estimates. $55 price target.

Broadcom(BRCM): FBR lifts stock target to $29.50.

Ebay(EBAY): FBR puts $20 target price on stock.

Temple-Inland(TIN): Merrill Lynch/Bank of America raises target price to $16.

Bank of America(BAC): Rochdale Securities analyst Dick Bove raises target price from $5 to $19.

Accenture(ACN): Goldman Sachs raised rating to a buy from neutral. $36 price target.

Dell Inc.(DELL): Goldman raises stock to a neutral from a sell rating. $14 price target.

DirecTV(DTV): Pali Research initiates company with a buy rating. $32 price target.

Mead Johnson Nutrition(MJN): Goldman Sachs raises company to a buy from a neutral. $40 price target.

A lot more upgrades this morning, and we are seeing a recent lovefest with EBAY and Yahoo from analysts. They went from being very "unloved" to highly embraced. Not sure I would be chasing these names here. BAC with yet another upgrade.

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