Upgrades and Downgrades (BXP, CCL, DPZ, GPS, HBC, MRVL, FDO, JDSU, ORCL, FB, GM, YHOO, YUM)

Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE: BXP) reiterated Buy with a target price of $120 at Argus.

Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) reiterated Hold but kept as Long-Term Buy at Argus.

Domino’s Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) reiterated Outperform and raised target to $50 from $44 at Oppenheimer.

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) named Bull of the Day at Zacks.

HSBC Holdings PLC (NYSE: HBC) named Bear of the Day at Zacks.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) cut to Market Perform at JMP Securities.

Most investors and traders were out on Monday and Wednesday, but here are some of the standout calls that were still listed with upgrades and downgrades this week:

Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) reiterated as Buy with a $77 target at Goldman Sachs, but Raymond James lowered its price target to $68 from $72 due to margin pressure (both calls Wednesday).

JDS Uniphase Corp. (NASDAQ: JDSU) reiterated Outperform at Piper Jaffray, but the price target was raised to $16 from $12 in the call.

Credit Suisse commented that Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) could make the software as a service (SaaS) market come with higher multiples. Those noted positively were RNOW and TLEO, and others were CNQR, CSOD, CTCT, JIVE, MKTG, RP, SNCR and ULTI. (Wednesday)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) reiterated Buy but the price target raised to $33 from $25 at Needham. (Monday)

General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) started as Buy with $35 price target at Goldman Sachs. (Monday)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) reiterated Buy but price target raised to $26 from $19 at Needham. (Monday)

Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) reiterated Buy with $76 target at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. (Monday)


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Some think Domino’s Pizza [DPZ 16.55 0.10 (+0.61%) ] is a buy, others say it’s Buffalo Wild Wings [BWLD 47.26 -0.28 (-0.59%) ]. But after decades of investing, Cramer urged viewers to skip the practice entirely.


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“I used to do it all the time,” he said, “and it never worked.”





Despite the heady days of the dot-com boom of 1999-2000, when networks were built out en masse to handle what people thought would be an enormous amount of Web traffic, it’s only now that the Internet’s potential is starting to be reached. And with that comes the need for new and better networks.









That is Cramer’s latest investing thesis, and it was predicated on the idea that Web applications like Netflix [NFLX 220.0902 8.6002 (+4.07%) ], Facebook and Google's [GOOG 610.42 0.27 (+0.04%) ] YouTube require an enormous amount of bandwidth. Plus, there’s the sea-change shift taking place to wireless networks from traditional terrestrial networks, further sparking growth in this business. Cramer named JDS Uniphase [JDSU 22.74 4.81 (+26.83%) ], Juniper Networks [JNPR 40.0301 1.5501 (+4.03%) ] and Ciena [CIEN 26.945 3.395 (+14.42%) ] as just a few of his top plays on the trend.



“They’re not done” going up, he said.



Cramer also said that with cotton prices down 2 percent, investors should still consider buying Phillips-Van Heusen [PVH 61.58 2.65 (+4.5%) ].



Toreador Resources [TRGL 14.98 -1.61 (-9.7%) ] was off almost 8 percent on news that the French government would delay shale gas and oil drilling until its impact on the environment was determined. The decision hit Toreador especially because of the company’s extensive exploration permits in the Paris basin.



Still, Cramer thinks the delay was typical of governments the world over, and he doubted drilling would be stopped for long given the immense energy demands facing France and other countries. So that bodes well for Toreador.
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“That stock will come right back up again,” Cramer said.



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