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Check out today's top analyst calls from around Wall Street, compiled by The Fly. NVIDIA UPGRADED AMID POST-EARNINGS PULLBACK: Oppenheimer analyst Rick Schafer upgraded Nvidia to Outperform from Perform following Thursday's earnings, noting that all its segments grew year-over-year, led by core Gaming and Data Center. While its Q3 outlook was mixed, he attributes the modest top-line guidance miss to a slowdown in crypto demand and lack of volume availability of the recently introduced Turing gaming GPU. Schafer, who he sees significant pent-up demand for Turing along with solid, structural growth drivers in Data Center AI, gaming and autonomous, set a $310 price target on Nvidia shares, which are down 4.3% to $246.27 in morning trading. CITI SAY BUY ESPERION AHEAD OF EXPECTED CHOLESTEROL DRUG APPROVAL: Citi analyst Joel Beatty upgraded Esperion to Buy from Neutral because he believes bempedoic acid for LDL-lowering is likely to be approved. His 70% probability of approval view is higher than the roughly 40% odds of success he believes is currently priced in the stock, Beatty tells investors. DSW CUT TO NEGATIVE: Susquehanna analyst Sam Poser downgraded DSW to Negative from Neutral as he expects margins to be challenged due to increased variable costs and gross margin pressure related to the new loyalty program. He also expects guidance to be reduced following the next earnings call. Poser lowered his price target to $22 from $26 on DSW shares, which are down 7.3% in morning trading. DEUTSCHE MORE POSITIVE ON MATCH GROUP: Deutsche Bank analyst Kunal Madhukar believes the total addressable market for Match Group's Tinder could be in the range of 185-190M monthly average users, which could translate into about 10M paying subscribers for Tinder, and he contends that Tinder remains underpenetrated relative to that opportunity. Given his higher confidence in Tinder's ability to keep delivering strong growth over the medium-term, Madhukar reiterated his Buy rating on Match Group and increased his price target on the shares to $56 from $50.

Barclays analyst Tom O'Malley raised the firm's price target on Broadcom (AVGO) to $1,500 from $1,405 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares after hosting management for meetings. Broadcom is one of the unique companies that has a comprehensive view of the semis industry while also capable of providing an "intimate look" at the artificial intelligence market via custom silicon, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm says management highlighted the company's inroads with the consumer-facing AI world, providing a differing viewpoint versus Nvidia's (NVDA) vision of the world - pointing to a two-part market of consumer and enterprise that could grow to a 50/50 split over time. Barclays came away from the meetings "with a valuable second opinion on the future of AI and a greater appreciation for the company's many ways to win."