Shares of networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks (JNPR) are up 23 cents, or 0.8%, at $29.46, after Raymond James’s Simon Leopold this morning raised his rating on the stock to Outperform from Market perform, just days before the company’s Q2 report this coming Tuesday, July 25th, based on what he thinks is “an underappreciated pivot."

Leopold already has an Outperform on Juniper competitor Cisco Systems (CSCO), and he rates Arista Networks (ANET) Market Perform.

That...