Catch up on today's top five analyst upgrades with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. UPS (UPS) upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel with analyst David Ross saying after the recent share pullback, UPS' valuation is "reasonable" considering the risks ahead and the increased capital investments expected over the next several years. 2. PPL Corp. (PPL) upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform at RBC Capital with analyst Shelby Tucker saying he believes that the uncertainty around the impact of RIIO-2 price controls on the company's financials has been more than discounted in the stock price, while the equity needs due to tax reform have also been digested by investors. 3. First Republic (FRC) upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays with analyst Matthew Keating saying he believes the impact of First Republic's "millennial strategies" on client household acquisition is underappreciated and that tax reform will not weigh the bank's businesses. 4. Herbalife Nutrition (HLF) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citi with analyst Beth Kite saying since January, the company has made capital allocation announcements, enacted several executive changes, and found out that Bill Ackman closed out his long-standing and well-publicized short position. 5. Mylan (MYL) upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley. This list is just a portion of The Fly's full analyst coverage. To see The Fly's full Street Research coverage, click here.

HSBC upgraded UPS to Buy from Hold with a price target of $170, up from $150. The company's Q1 results beat on tapering volume decline and an improving costs base, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm expects UPS's volumes and margins to turnaround from Q2, with a potential 2024 guidance upgrade to reflect the accretive USPS contract. This could restore confidence in the company's 2026 guidance, contends HSBC. It believes the company's volumes and margins have likely troughed.

HSBC analyst Parash Jain upgraded UPS to Buy from Hold with a $170 price target.

Loop Capital raised the firm's price target on UPS to $161 from $158 and keeps a Hold rating on the shares after its "not as bad as feared" Q1 earnings. Year One of the new Teamsters contract in conjunction with the very weak freight economy has left UPS with a big profitability and earnings hole to climb out of, though labor cost inflation should "dramatically decelerate" in the August quarter while macro conditions hopefully create a path for normalizing freight demand, the analyst tells investors in a research note.

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Unusual total active option classes on open include: ImmunityBio (IBRX), Halliburton (HAL), Redfin (RDFN), Nokia (NOK), Matterport (MTTR), General Motors (GM), UPS (UPS), Philip Morris (PM), PepsiCo (PEP), and General Electric (GE).

UPS says it is early in the process and will share progress on pension considerations when appropriate.

For 2024, UPS reaffirms its full-year, consolidated financial targets: Consolidated revenue to range from approximately $92.0 billion to $94.5 billion; Consolidated adjusted operating margin to range from approximately 10.0% to 10.6%; Capital expenditures of approximately $4.5 billion.