New Ratings

Published on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 07:57 Written by Danny Miller

New York, July 18^th (TradersHuddle.com) – Following are some of the new analyst ratings before the market open.

Research Firms Initiate:

Aflac (NYSE: AFL) was initiated with a Neutral at UBS.

Ameriprise (NYSE: AMP) was initiated with a Buy at UBS.

Ford Motor (NYSE: F) was initiated with Overweight and a target price of $13 at JPMorgan.

General Motors (NYSE: GM) was initiated with Overweight and a target price of $29 at JPMorgan.

Great Plains Energy (NYSE: GXP) was initiated with a Neutral at Bank of America Merrill.

Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC) was initiated with a Buy at UBS.

Meritor (NYSE: MTOR) was initiated with a Neutral at JPMorgan.

MetLife (NYSE: MET) was initiated with a Buy at UBS.

Principal Financial Group (NYSE: PFG) was initiated with a Neutral at UBS.

Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU) was initiated with a Neutral at UBS.

Shutterfly (NASDAQ: SFLY) was initiated with a Buy at Bank of America Merrill.

StanCorp Financial (NYSE: SFG) was initiated with a Sell at UBS.

Superior Energy Services (NYSE: SPN) was initiated with Outperform at Wells Fargo.

Tenneco (NYSE: TEN) was initiated with Overweight at JPMorgan.

Tower International (NYSE: TOWR) was initiated with Underweight at JPMorgan.

TRW Automotive (NYSE: TRW) was initiated with Overweight at JPMorgan.

Visteon Corp. (NYSE: VC) was initiated with a Neutral at JPMorgan.