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Oct 8, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	17.06%	R. Scott SiefersTD Cowen 62%	1.05K	Previous Initiates Current Buy	Get Alert
Oct 6, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	8.14%	Brennan HawkenBMO Capital 70%	970 972	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Oct 5, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	12.6%	Erika NajarianUBS 61%	1.01K 1.15K	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Oct 1, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	11.48%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	1K 1.21K	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Sep 28, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	12.26%	Domenico SantoroHSBC 17%	995 1.01K	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Sep 25, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	30.99%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	1.18K 1.33K	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Sep 23, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	17.06%	Benjamin GerlingerCitigroup 46%	1.05K 1.2K	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Aug 3, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	28.21%	Erika NajarianUBS 61%	1.12K 1.15K	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jul 21, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	10.93%	Saul MartinezHSBC 67%	834 995	Previous Reduce Current Hold	Get Alert
Jul 17, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	28.21%	Brennan HawkenBMO Capital 70%	1.15K 1.19K	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jul 17, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	34.89%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	1.08K 1.21K	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Jul 16, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	33.78%	Keith HorowitzCitigroup 80%	1.1K 1.2K	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jul 16, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	44.93%	Ebrahim PoonawalaB of A Securities 66%	1.15K 1.3K	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jul 15, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	32.66%	Brennan HawkenBMO Capital 70%	1.07K 1.19K	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jul 15, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	6.47%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	900 955	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jul 15, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	38.8%	Jason GoldbergBarclays 63%	1.05K 1.25K	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jul 15, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	25.98%	Christopher McGrattyKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 37%	1.05K 1.13K	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jul 15, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	47.71%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	1.2K 1.33K	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jul 7, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	28.21%	Ebrahim PoonawalaB of A Securities 66%	1.05K 1.15K	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Jul 7, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	24.86%	Erika NajarianUBS 61%	940 1.12K	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jul 6, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	19.84%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	950 1.08K	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Jun 30, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	—	Chris KotowskiOppenheimer 80%	—	Previous Perform Current Underperform	Get Alert
Jun 29, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	22.52%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	1.02K 1.1K	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jun 24, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	33.22%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	1K 1.2K	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jun 23, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	22.63%	Keith HorowitzCitigroup 80%	930 1.1K	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jun 12, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	0.33%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	826 900	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
May 8, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	3.68%	Keith HorowitzCitigroup 80%	765 930	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Apr 20, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	8.36%	Brennan HawkenBMO Capital 70%	905 972	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Apr 14, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	11.48%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	1K 1.05K	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Apr 14, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	17.06%	Ebrahim PoonawalaB of A Securities 66%	1.05K 1.1K	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Apr 13, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	3.68%	Erika NajarianUBS 61%	930 930	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Apr 7, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	3.68%	Brennan HawkenUBS 70%	930 990	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Apr 6, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	0.89%	Brennan HawkenBMO Capital 70%	905 985	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Apr 6, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	5.91%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	950 1.08K	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Apr 6, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	16.95%	Daniel FannonJefferies 70%	1.05K 1.13K	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Mar 10, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-7.92%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	815 826	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jan 27, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	4.79%	Mikhail ParamonovFreedom Broker 71%	794 940	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Jan 20, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	9.81%	Brennan HawkenBMO Capital 70%	980 985	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jan 20, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	14.83%	Gerard CassidyRBC Capital 74%	900 1.03K	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Jan 16, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	17.06%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	970 1.05K	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jan 16, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	11.48%	Christopher McGrattyKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 37%	971 1K	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jan 8, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-13.6%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	750 775	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jan 5, 2026	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	16.83%	Jason GoldbergBarclays 63%	850 1.05K	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Dec 17, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	8.25%	David KonradKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 73%	870 971	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Oct 21, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-16.39%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	625 750	Previous Overweight Current Neutral	Get Alert
Oct 17, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-11.48%	Mikhail ParamonovFreedom Broker 71%	633 794	Previous Sell Current Hold	Get Alert
Oct 17, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-3.01%	David KonradKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 73%	850 870	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-14.72%	Keith HorowitzCitigroup 80%	700 765	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Oct 15, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-5.24%	Jason GoldbergBarclays 63%	720 850	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Oct 15, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-7.69%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	828 854	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Oct 7, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-10.26%	Brennan HawkenUBS 70%	762 805	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Oct 3, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-12.49%	Brennan HawkenBMO Capital 70%	785	Previous Initiates Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Sep 30, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-7.47%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	752 830	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Sep 29, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-4.79%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	706 854	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Sep 16, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-4.68%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	785 855	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jul 29, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-29.43%	Mikhail ParamonovFreedom Broker 71%	573 633	Previous Hold Current Sell	Get Alert
Jul 21, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-21.96%	Keith HorowitzCitigroup 80%	550 700	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jul 17, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-11.93%	David KonradKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 73%	771 790	Previous Market Perform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jul 17, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-20.29%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	680 715	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Jul 14, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-33.11%	Brian FitzgeraldJMP Securities 71%	600 600	Previous Market Outperform Current Market Perform	Get Alert
Jul 8, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-30.1%	Saul MartinezHSBC 67%	558 627	Previous Hold Current Reduce	Get Alert
Jul 8, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-12.49%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	650 785	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jul 2, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-20.29%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	630 715	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Jun 23, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-34%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	570 592	Previous Equal-Weight Current Equal-Weight	Get Alert
Apr 28, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-36.12%	Mikhail ParamonovFreedom Broker 71%	573 650	Previous Hold Current Hold	Get Alert
Apr 15, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-37.57%	Gerard CassidyRBC Capital 74%	560 610	Previous Sector Perform Current Sector Perform	Get Alert
Apr 15, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-27.54%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	650 680	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Apr 15, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-19.73%	Jason GoldbergBarclays 63%	720 760	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Apr 8, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-33.11%	Devin RyanJMP Securities 83%	600 625	Previous Market Outperform Current Market Outperform	Get Alert
Apr 3, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-31.55%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	614 625	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Apr 1, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-33.78%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	594 660	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Mar 28, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-24.19%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	680 720	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Mar 25, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-30.32%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	605 625	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Mar 24, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-38.68%	Keith HorowitzCitigroup 80%	550 585	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Mar 19, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	—	Chris KotowskiOppenheimer 80%	—	Previous Outperform Current Perform	Get Alert
Mar 13, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Group	$897.00	-26.53%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	659 782	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Feb 19, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-19.73%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	680 720	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jan 21, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-28.65%	Brennan HawkenUBS 70%	610 640	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jan 16, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-15.27%	Jason GoldbergBarclays 63%	713 760	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jan 16, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-12.82%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	736 782	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jan 16, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-23.08%	David KonradKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 73%	686 690	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Jan 16, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-32.55%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	550 605	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jan 6, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-20.51%	Jason GoldbergBarclays 63%	588 713	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Jan 6, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-32%	Brennan HawkenUBS 70%	610	Previous Buy Current Neutral	Get Alert
Jan 3, 2025	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-28.76%	Chris KotowskiOppenheimer 80%	639 677	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Dec 6, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-38.68%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	520 550	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Dec 3, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-23.52%	David KonradKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 73%	570 686	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Nov 26, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-32.22%	Saul MartinezHSBC 67%	569 608	Previous Buy Current Hold	Get Alert
Nov 21, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-34.78%	Keith HorowitzCitigroup 80%	485 585	Previous Neutral Current Neutral	Get Alert
Nov 15, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-24.19%	Mike MayoWells Fargo 73%	600 680	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Nov 5, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-26.31%	Chris KotowskiOppenheimer 80%	614 661	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-34.45%	Jason GoldbergBarclays 63%	565 588	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-42.03%	Kian AbouhosseinJP Morgan 75%	472 520	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-35.9%	Glenn SchorrEvercore ISI Group 66%	520 575	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-36.45%	David KonradKeefe, Bruyette & Woods 73%	555 570	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-31.55%	Chris KotowskiOppenheimer 80%	577 614	Previous Outperform Current Outperform	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-36.45%	Betsy GraseckMorgan Stanley 63%	560 570	Previous Overweight Current Overweight	Get Alert
Oct 16, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-35.9%	Ebrahim PoonawalaB of A Securities 66%	563 575	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert
Oct 9, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-38.68%	Devin RyanJMP Securities 83%	525 550	Previous Market Outperform Current Market Outperform	Get Alert
Oct 8, 2024	GSGoldman Sachs Gr	$897.00	-37.57%	Brennan HawkenUBS 70%	550 560	Previous Buy Current Buy	Get Alert

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What Are Analyst Stock Ratings?

Analyst ratings measure the expected performance of a stock during a given time period. Analysts and brokerage firms often use ratings when they issue stock recommendations to stock traders.

Analysts arrive at stock ratings after they research companies’ public financial statements, communicate with executives and customers and interact with companies in other ways.

Most analysts issue ratings 4 times a year, usually at 3-month intervals.

How to Use Analyst Ratings

As an investor or trader, you want to be able to use analyst ratings effectively. Here are steps you can take to understand how to synthesize all the information analysts report about a particular company and how to apply it to your own trades.

Step 1: Check Ratings History

In the short term, look to see whether analysts suggest an initiation, upgrade or downgrade for a particular stock. Understand how the rating changed compared to the previous rating and whether a price target gets announced or changed.

Sometimes the rating stays the same and only the price target changes, which could cause the stock to move in either direction, depending on the significance of the change between the 2 price targets.

Step 2: Check for Other News

In the short term, check to see how the stock reacts to positive or negative news. This will be an indication of the company’s outlook because analyst ratings usually come out after the company announces news (it’ll typically be earnings news).

Step 3: Look at the Sector for News

Check to see if other stocks in the sector also received similar ratings. This could indicate micro news, which refers to when the whole sector or specific company trades in a specific way due to news outside of one company.

Step 4: Look at the Note

If available, look over the analyst note itself. The beginning of the note has the main information of the rating and price target. Investors should also take a look at the summary of the note, which you can find in the first couple pages and give you a concrete overview of the company. This can help you get an understanding of how analysts arrived at their thesis on the stock.

An example of an analyst note. Source: Needham

Step 5: Make a Decision

After reviewing the analyst ratings (and whether the analyst proposes a change or initiation) and find the reason for that note. Make a decision based on the analyst thesis on the company. This should give you guidance on how to make your thesis. Analyst ratings are a good indication of what professionals believe the company or sector will do, helping you get a better understanding of the companies you’re interested in.

Analyst Rating Accuracy

Analyst ratings are not set in stone and nobody knows indefinitely what a stock will do. Therefore, analyst ratings should be taken as an educated guess made by professionals who carefully study the specific company and sector in question. It's not a surprise that the accuracy of each rating can vary by each individual analyst and specific ratings on companies.

In other words, there’s no hard number or percentage on how accurate analyst ratings are because they are like educated guesses on what they think the stock will do based on their research, within that particular sector. In addition, each firm has so many analysts and so many different companies to review that you can compare ratings to glean what you believe is the truth.

Where Analyst Ratings Come From

Analyst ratings come from stock analysts. Analysts “go deep” on companies within a particular industry or sector. Some analysts employ a top-down approach (they start with an industry or sector and look for excellent companies within that industry or sector) and other stock analysts choose a bottom-up approach, which means they start with the company first and connect the dots within that company’s sector or industry. Analysts evaluate:

Financial statements
Economic fundamentals
Suppliers, customers and competitors
Management quality
Business model
Revenue
Expenses
Assets
Liabilities

While these evaluations are done using facts and figures that any investor can access, they come down to a conclusion the analyst must draw. While this isn’t an unqualified opinion, analysts will disagree because their interpretations of the data could vary.

Types of Stock Ratings

Stock ratings can range from simple “buy” and “sell” ratings to “equal weight” and “outperform” ratings. Here’s a quick overview of how analysts rate stocks.

Buy Rating

A “buy” rating indicates that an analyst is optimistic about a stock’s short-term or mid-term growth and recommends that traders purchase the stock. An analyst may even go so far as to indicate that a stock is a “strong buy.” At the same time, you may choose to swing trade the asset for a profit and come back later to start the process all over again.

Sell Rating

A “sell” rating means that an analyst believes the stock will trend downward in a particular time frame. Analysts might even refer to a security as a “strong sell.” Remember, though, you may want to swing trade and come back to this asset in the future even though you just chose to sell, just as you would under a “buy” rating.

Hold

A “hold” rating suggests that investors should not buy more of or sell the specified stock because they believe the stock should perform in a way that’s consistent with the market or will perform similarly to comparable companies within that particular sector. This is akin to the value investing approach that Warren Buffett uses, looking to gain long-term value from a single stock rather than flipping it because of a bad week. As many have said, it’s not a loss until you sell.

Underperform

An “underperform” rating means an analyst indicates that a stock is expected to perform below the market or sector average. And yes, while the underperform rating may not bode well for an asset in the next few weeks, it may not stay that way. Continue to carefully monitor your portfolio to ensure that an underperforming asset hasn’t turned itself around. As companies are faced with the Herculean task of pleasing shareholders, they will push to fix their underperforming stocks, meaning that a stock you wrote off could rise again.

Outperform

An “outperform” rating means that an analyst expects a stock to outperform the market or sector average. While the stock may look to outperform the market or a sector’s average, that doesn’t mean it will continue to soar forever. You must look at an outperform rating as what that asset will do in recent times, but it may not maintain that trajectory.

Equal-Weight

An equal weight rating means that an analyst believes that an individual stock's performance will tie to the average of all the stocks that an analyst covers in that particular sector. This type of rating helps investors get a true comparison of stocks to each other within a particular sector or industry. At the same time, equal-weight ratings could change at any time.

Price Target

A price target is an analyst’s projection of a stock’s future price. A price target is generally set up in a general trade or area where the asset might land. This means that the analyst could get close without hitting the figure on the head. Even so, the analyst wants to get close and better predict the movement of the marketplace and the asset.

Understanding Stock Ratings

Stock ratings are assessments of the investment potential of a particular stock. They are typically created by financial analysts who evaluate a company's financial performance, competitive positioning, and market outlook to provide guidance on the stock's expected future performance.

Ratings typically range from "buy" to "sell," with variations in between, such as "hold," "accumulate," or "neutral." A "buy" rating suggests that the stock is likely to perform well in the future, and investors should consider purchasing it. Conversely, a "sell" rating indicates that the stock is expected to underperform, and investors should consider selling it.

It's important to note that ratings are not guarantees of performance and should not be relied upon solely when making investment decisions. Ratings are just one factor to consider when evaluating a stock's potential, and investors should also conduct their own research and analysis to make informed decisions.

Another thing to keep in mind is that different analysts may have different opinions on a stock, so it's a good idea to consider multiple ratings before making an investment decision.

In addition to analyst ratings, investors can also consider other factors when evaluating a stock, such as its financial statements, management team, industry trends, and overall market conditions. By combining all of these factors, investors can make informed decisions about which stocks to buy or sell.

In summary, stock ratings are an important tool for investors to consider when evaluating a stock's potential, but they should not be the only factor used in investment decision-making. It's important to conduct your own research, consider multiple ratings, and take into account other factors before making an investment decision.

Should You Use Analyst Ratings to Inform Your Own Trades?

You can definitely use analyst ratings to inform your own trades and inform your own thesis but it’s a good idea to do your own research. However, analyst ratings are just one step in what should be a much larger investment strategy. Don’t fall in love with just one analyst. Compare notes. Look into how these ratings match with activity on the market and current events. Plus, remember that an analyst rating could easily be incorrect. No one is perfect, but these ratings are a good place to start.

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