The company's fiscal Q2 ended Oct. 28 was a mixed bag, however. EPS ex items of 60 cents, down 2% from the year-earlier quarter, easily beat the 54-cent consensus, but sales of $1.34 billion, down 7%, missed by $20 million. It marked the 12th straight quarter of year-over-year sales declines. EPS has fallen in six of the past seven quarters. IBD'S TAKE : Which companies are hitting 52-week highs? That easy to find at IBD's New Highs, but that list goes one big step better. That is, it ranks the companies making new highs by Composite Rating. So the best are at the top, making this a quick and easy read to find stocks for your watch list. Drexel Hamilton upgraded its rating on NetApp stock to buy from hold, and at least three investment banks hiked their price targets, RBC and Baird to 40 and BMO to 39.