BUZZ-KLA rises as Citi lifts target price on expectations of growing WFE spend ** Chip making equipment provider KLA's KLAC.O shares rise 0.9% to $865.50 premarket ** Citigroup raises target price to $980 vs. previous PT of $760 ** KLAC positioned to benefit from increasing expenditure on leading-edge wafer fab equipment (WFE)- Brokerage ** Forecas

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U.S. RESEARCH ROUNDUP-Brighthouse Financial, Microsoft, Shattuck Labs June 17 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S.-listed companies, including Brighthouse Financial, Microsoft and Shattuck Labs, on Monday. HIGHLIGHTS * Agree Realty Corp ADC.N : Jefferies raises target price to $70 from $65 * Brighthouse Financial Inc BHF.O : KBW raises to market perform from underperform * Microsoft MSFT.O : Wedbush raises target price to $550 from $

BUZZ - Nasdaq top and bottom performing stocks at about 03:45 p.m. EDT Nasdaq 100 .NDX Top Performers Percent Change CrowdStrike Holdings Inc CRWD.OQ +8.5% Constellation Energy Corp CEG.OQ +7.9% Lam Research Corp LRCX.OQ +4.6% Datadog Inc DDOG.OQ +3.9% KLA Corp KLAC.OQ +3.5% Bottom Performers Percent Change Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD.OQ -4.4% Illumina Inc ILMN.OQ -3.5% Monster Beverage Corp MNST.OQ -3.3% PepsiCo Inc PEP.OQ -2.8% Kraft Heinz Co KHC.OQ -2.6% The Nasdaq 100 .NDX gained 67.54 po