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Alcon upgraded to Outperform following Q1 beat

Baird upgraded Alcon (NYSE:) to Outperform from Neutral and raised its price target to $90.00 from $75.00 following Q1 earnings.

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Shares jumped more than 7% pre-market today after the company reported its , with EPS of $0.70 and revenue of $2.3 billion beating the consensus estimates.

Neogenomics upgraded to Buy, shares jump on Q1 beat

BTIG upgraded NeoGenomics (NASDAQ:) to Buy from Neutral with a price target of $25.00, noting it was impressed by the change in underlying growth at the company since the new management team has taken over.

Shares jumped more than 18% yesterday after the company a strong Q1 beat and raised its full-year guidance.

BTIG said it was positively surprised both by the organic volume (up 7%) and pricing (up 8%) in the core lab services business in Q1, and expects the company to start benefiting from its recent launch of RaDaR MRD in the clinic, as well as Neo Comprehensive, in the clinic in Q2.

2 more upgrades

Enact (NASDAQ:) shares closed more than 2% higher yesterday after BofA Securities upgraded the company to Neutral from Underperform and raised its price target to $27.00 from $25.00. Shares rose more than 2% yesterday.

The company reported its last week, beating the Street estimates. Earlier this month, the company hiked its dividend by 14% to $0.16.

Piper Sandler upgraded Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ:) to Overweight from Neutral with a price target of $46.00.

Shares surged more than 5% yesterday after the company better-than-expected Q1 EPS, while revenues missed expectations.