Top Analysts Actions: OC, BXMT, SLCA, SFUN

Owens Corning OC Northcoast raises rating to buy from neutral

Blackstone Mortgage Trust BXMT BofA/Merrill raises rating to buy from neutral

U.S. Silica SLCA Simmons raises to overweight from neutral

SouFun Holdings SFUN Macquarie raises to overweight from neutral

AXIS Capital AXS MKM Partners lowers to neutral from buy

Providence Service Corp PRSC Sidoti lowers to neutral from buy

KapStone Paper and Packaging KS Macquarie lowers to neutral from outperform

Hannon Armstrong Sust. Infr. HASI BofA/Merrill lowers to neutral from buy

Allstate ALL Citigroup lowers to sell from neutral

Scientific Games SGMS BofA/Merrill initiates coverage at neutral with $18.50 price target

Intl Game Tech. PLC IGT BofA/Merrill initiates coverage at buy with $24.00 price target

Cabela's CAB Barrington Research starts at outperform from $61.00 price target

EQT GP Holdings EQGP Citigroup starts at neutral with $35.00 price target

People's Utah Bancorp PUB DA Davidson starts at buy with $19.50 price target

Bankrate RATE Needham resumes coverage at buy with $14.00 price target

Spectrum Brands SPB BofA/Merrill resumes at buy with $113.00 price target

Northwest Bancshares NWBI Boenning & Scattergood resumes at neutral

Halozyme Therapeutics HALO JP Morgan raises price target to $25.00 from $20.00 with overweight rating

EXACT Sciences EXAS Canaccord Genuity raises target price to $32.00 from $30.00 with buy rating

CIGNA CI Leerink Partners raises target price to $160.00 from $150.00 with outperform rating

Affimed Therapeutics AFMD Jefferies raises target price to $16.00 from $12.00 with buy rating

Centene CNC Oppenheimer raises target price to $89.00 from $83.00 with outperform rating