Most people know that Wall Street analyst recommendations are overstated because of pressure from public companies. No investor relations executive wants to see "hold" and "sell" ratings issued for their company's stock. In reality, a "buy" rating really means "hold." "Hold" ratings really mean "sell" and "sell" ratings mean get out while you still can.
If Wall Street's top-rated analysts are consistently giving "hold" and "sell" ratings to stock, you know there's a serious problem. We have compiled a list of the companies that Wall Street's top equities research analysts are consistently giving "hold" and "sell" ratings to. If you own one of these stocks, consider getting out while there's still time.
This slide show lists the 20 companies that have the lowest average analyst recommendations from Wall Street's equities research analysts over the last 12 months.
- Consensus Rating
- Sell
- Rating Score
- 1.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $11.50 (57.1% Downside)
About GameStop
GameStop Corp., a specialty retailer, provides games and entertainment products through its stores and ecommerce platforms in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. The company sells new and pre-owned gaming platforms; accessories, such as controllers, gaming headsets, and virtual reality products; new and pre-owned gaming software; and in-game digital currency, digital downloadable content, and full-game downloads.
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#2 - Credit Acceptance (NASDAQ:CACC)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $440.00 (6.8% Downside)
About Credit Acceptance
Credit Acceptance Corporation engages in the provision of financing programs, and related products and services in the United States. The company advances money to automobile dealers in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loans; and buys the consumer loans from the dealers and keeps the amount collected from the consumers.
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#3 - Bancolombia (NYSE:CIB)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $39.25 (0.7% Downside)
About Bancolombia
Bancolombia SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides banking products and services in Colombia and internationally. The company operates through nine segments: Banking Colombia, Banking Panama, Banking El Salvador, Banking Guatemala, Trust, Investment Banking, Brokerage, International Banking, and All Other.
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#4 - Dillard's (NYSE:DDS)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $326.00 (1.6% Upside)
About Dillard's
Dillard's, Inc engages in the retail of fashion apparel, cosmetics, and home furnishings, and other consumer goods. It operates through the Retail Operations and Construction segments. The Retail Operations segment comprises sells cosmetics, ladies' apparel, ladies' accessories and lingerie, juniors' and children's apparel, men's apparel and accessories, shoes, and home and furniture products.
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#5 - Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $8.40 (52.1% Downside)
About Harmony Gold Mining
Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited engages in the exploration, extraction, and processing of gold. The company explores for uranium, silver, copper, and molybdenum deposits. It has eight underground operations in the Witwatersrand Basin; an open-pit mine on the Kraaipan Greenstone Belt; and various surface source operations in South Africa.
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- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $138.80 (9.9% Upside)
About Allegion
Allegion plc manufactures and sells mechanical and electronic security products and solutions worldwide. The company offers door controls and systems and exit devices; locks, locksets, portable locks, and key systems and services; electronic security products and access control systems; time, attendance, and workforce productivity systems; doors, accessories, and other.
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#7 - Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 5 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $18.96 (7.6% Upside)
About Franklin Resources
Franklin Resources, Inc is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the firm provides its services to individuals, institutions, pension plans, trusts, and partnerships. It launches equity, fixed income, balanced, and multi-asset mutual funds through its subsidiaries.
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#8 - Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $89.58 (3.6% Upside)
About Southern Copper
Southern Copper Corporation engages in mining, exploring, smelting, and refining copper and other minerals in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, and Chile. The company is involved in the mining, milling, and flotation of copper ore to produce copper and molybdenum concentrates; smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister and anode copper; refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes; production of molybdenum concentrate and sulfuric acid; production of refined silver, gold, and other materials; and mining and processing of zinc, copper, molybdenum, silver, gold, and lead.
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#9 - Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $14.38 (19.0% Upside)
About Rocket Companies
Rocket Companies, Inc, a fintech holding company, provides mortgage lending, title and settlement services, and other financial technology services in the United States and Canada. It operates through two segments, Direct to Consumer and Partner Network. The company's solutions include Rocket Mortgage, a mortgage lender; Amrock that provides title insurance, property valuation, and settlement services; Rocket Homes, a home search platform and real estate agent referral network, which offers technology-enabled services to support the home buying and selling experience; and Rocket Loans, an online-based personal loans business.
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- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $153.83 (10.2% Upside)
About Clorox
The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. The Health and Wellness segment offers cleaning products, such as laundry additives and home care products primarily under the Clorox, Clorox2, Scentiva, Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Tilex, and Formula 409 brands; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro and Clorox Healthcare brands; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand; and vitamins, minerals and supplement products under the RenewLife, Natural Vitality, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brands in the United States.
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#11 - T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $96.00 (11.5% Upside)
About T. Rowe Price Group
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, institutional investors, retirement plans, financial intermediaries, and institutions. It launches and manages equity and fixed income mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe.
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#12 - Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $52.75 (10.2% Upside)
About Archer-Daniels-Midland
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company engages in the procurement, transportation, storage, processing, and merchandising of agricultural commodities, ingredients, flavors, and solutions in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition.
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#13 - Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $11.00 (20.5% Upside)
About Ecopetrol
Ecopetrol SA operates as an integrated energy company. The company operates through four segments: Exploration and Production; Transport and Logistics; Refining, Petrochemical and Biofuels; and Electric Power Transmission and Toll Roads Concessions. It engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas; transportation of crude oil, motor fuels, fuel oil, and other refined products, including diesel, jet, and biofuels; processing and refining crude oil; distribution of natural gas and LPG; sale of refined and petrochemical products; supplying of electric power transmission services; design, development, construction, operation, and maintenance of road and energy infrastructure projects; and supplying of information technology and telecommunications services.
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#14 - Comstock Resources (NYSE:CRK)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $13.73 (30.4% Downside)
About Comstock Resources
Comstock Resources, Inc, an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of natural gas and oil properties in the United States. Its assets are located in the Haynesville and Bossier shales located in North Louisiana and East Texas. The company was incorporated in 1919 and is headquartered in Frisco, Texas.
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#15 - FactSet Research Systems (NYSE:FDS)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $436.90 (2.4% Upside)
About FactSet Research Systems
FactSet Research Systems Inc, a financial data company, provides integrated financial information and analytical applications to the investment community in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company delivers insight and information through the workflow solutions of research, analytics and trading, content and technology solutions, and wealth.
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#16 - Choice Hotels International (NYSE:CHH)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $139.15 (12.3% Upside)
About Choice Hotels International
Choice Hotels International, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a hotel franchisor in the United States and internationally. It operates through Hotel Franchising & Management and Corporate & Other segments. The company franchises lodging properties under the brand names of Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Clarion Pointe, Sleep Inn, Ascend Hotel Collection, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn, MainStay Suites, Suburban Studios, WoodSpring Suites, Everhome Suites, Cambria Hotels, Radisson Blu, Radisson RED, Radisson, Park Plaza, Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Radisson Inn & Suites, Park Inn by Radisson, Radisson Individuals, and Radisson Collection.
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#17 - Expeditors International of Washington (NASDAQ:EXPD)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $115.90 (8.7% Upside)
About Expeditors International of Washington
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides logistics services worldwide. The company offers airfreight services, such as air freight consolidation and forwarding; ocean freight and ocean services, including ocean freight consolidation, direct ocean forwarding, and order management; customs brokerage, import, intra-continental ground transportation and delivery, and warehousing and distribution services; and customs clearance, purchase order management, vendor consolidation, time-definite transportation services, temperature-controlled transit, cargo insurance, specialized cargo monitoring and tracking, and other supply chain solutions.
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#18 - Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.2
- Ratings Breakdown
- 3 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $102.80 (8.2% Downside)
About Consolidated Edison
Consolidated Edison, Inc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the regulated electric, gas, and steam delivery businesses in the United States. It offers electric services to approximately 3.7 million customers in New York City and Westchester County; gas to approximately 1.1 million customers in Manhattan, the Bronx, parts of Queens, and Westchester County; and steam to approximately 1,530 customers in parts of Manhattan.
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#19 - CNA Financial (NYSE:CNA)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $50.50 (5.4% Upside)
About CNA Financial
CNA Financial Corporation provides commercial property and casualty insurance products in the United States and internationally. It operates through Specialty, Commercial, International, Life & Group, and Corporate & Other segments. The company offers professional liability coverages and risk management services to various professional firms, including architects, real estate agents, and accounting and law firms; directors and officers, employment practices, fiduciary, and fidelity and cyber coverages to small and mid-size firms, public and privately held firms, and not-for-profit organizations; professional and general liability, as well as associated casualty coverages for healthcare industry; surety and fidelity bonds; and warranty and alternative risks products.
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#20 - Telefónica (NYSE:TEF)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- N/A
About Telefónica
Telefónica, SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services in Europe and Latin America. The company offers mobile and related services and products, such as mobile voice, value added, mobile data and internet, wholesale, corporate, roaming, fixed wireless, and trunking and paging services.
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