Catch up on today's top five analyst upgrades with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. Apple (AAPL) and Skyworks (SWKS) upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Raymond James with analyst Christopher Caso citing greater confidence in next year's 5G iPhone cycle. 2. PriceSmart (PSMT) upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform at Scotiabank. 3. BNY Mellon (BK) upgraded to Market Perform from Underperform at Keefe Bruyette with analyst Brian Kleinhanzl saying after the company's Q2 results, he feels its negative catalysts are slowly reversing. 4. U.S. Bancorp (USB) upgraded to Neutral from Underperform at BofA/Merrill with analyst Erika Najarian saying she believes earnings headwinds have reached an inflection point and net interest margin is more defensible versus peers. 5. Power Integrations (POWI) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel with analyst Tore Svanberg citing the company's near-term momentum from the USB-PD adoption cycle as well as its longer-term opportunity in the high-power industry and auto. This list is just a portion of The Fly's full analyst coverage. To see The Fly's full Street Research coverage, click here.

Apple saw sales of its iPhones fall 19.1% in the first three months of the year, CNBC's Ryan Browne reports, citing data from Counterpoint Research. Meanwhile, Huawei saw a 69.7% surge in smartphone sales in the country during the same period, Counterpoint said. Reference Link

Welcome to "Fly Insider," The Fly's weekly recap of notable insider stock transactionsNOTABLE INSIDER PURCHASES: Significant insider purchases reported in the prior week from April 15 through April 19 include:Chairman of Ashford (AINC) Montgomery Bennett purchased 200,000 shares of company stock at $4. 91 per share... To see the rest of the story go to thefly.com. See Story Here

Apple quietly acquired Paris-based AI startup Datakalab on December 17, Challenges' David Pargamin reports. The terms of the transaction could not be learned, but European Commission has been notified of the deal, the author notes. Reference Link

Friday's total option volume of 56.7 million contracts resulted in net open interest growth of 6.01 million calls and 5.28 million puts. NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Apple (AAPL) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) saw the greatest growth. Top five new positions opened include 50k Lyft (LYFT) May-24 20 calls, 44k Energy Transfer (ET) 4/26 weekly 16.5 calls, 43k Las Vegas Sands (LVS) Sep-24 41 calls, 23k Tesla (TSLA) 4/26 weekly 162.5 calls and 21k Papa John's (PZZA) Jun-24 57.5 puts.