** Shares of flooring supplies maker Floor & Decor Holdings <FND.N> up 2.5% at $62.33

** Brokerage Piper Sandler upgrades stock to "overweight" from "neutral", raises PT to $80 from $75

** Believes FND will return to "normalized" demand after working through the demand pull-forward excesses from 2020-2022

** Brokerage says co is currently facing peak hurricane headwind in November and December, which likely presents an opportunistic entry point on weak credit card data

** Eight of 24 brokerages rate stock "buy" or higher, 13 "hold" and three "sell"; with a median PT of $78- data compiled by LSEG

** Upto last close, FND fell ~37.7% YTD

(Reporting by Sanskriti Shekhar in Bengaluru)

((Sanskriti.Shekhar@thomsonreuters.com))