Wall Street research analysts must be the most optimistic people on earth. They give "buy" ratings to more than half of public companies, even during the worst bear markets. They don't even give stocks a "hold" rating unless the company has made major missteps.
"Sell" ratings are rare and are only given when the sustainability of a company's business model is in serious question. When Wall Street analysts across multiple brokerages all start downgrading a stock, you know something is seriously wrong.
MarketBeat has compiled an exclusive list of the 12 most downgraded stocks on Wall Street right now. If any of these companies are lurking around in your portfolio, you will want to ask yourself "Why?". Wall Street analysts are abandoning these companies in droves. They are true "strong sell" stocks.
#1 - Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD)
- Number of Downgrades
- 26 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 22 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $155.14 (45.3% Upside)
About Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. It operates through Data Center, Client, Gaming, and Embedded segments. The company offers x86 microprocessors and graphics processing units (GPUs) as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, data center, and professional GPUs; and embedded processors, and semi-custom system-on-chip (SoC) products, microprocessor and SoC development services and technology, data processing unites, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and adaptive SoC products.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 22 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 15 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $66.85 (54.3% Upside)
About Onsemi
onsemi is engaged in disruptive innovations and also a supplier of power and analog semiconductors. The firm offers vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets. It operates through the following segments: Power Solutions Group, Advanced Solutions Group, and Intelligent Sensing Group.
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#3 - Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ)
- Number of Downgrades
- 22 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 11 Buy Ratings, 11 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $250.41 (39.4% Upside)
About Constellation Brands
Constellation Brands, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, produces, imports, markets, and sells beer, wine, and spirits in the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and Italy. The company provides beer primarily under the Corona Extra, Corona Familiar, Corona Hard Seltzer, Corona Light, Corona Non-Alcoholic, Corona Premier, Corona Refresca, Modelo Especial, Modelo Chelada, Modelo Negra, Modelo Oro, Victoria, Vicky Chamoy, and Pacifico brands.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 22 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 17 Buy Ratings, 10 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $538.80 (37.9% Upside)
About Adobe
Adobe Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified software company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising. The Digital Media segment offers products, services, and solutions that enable individuals, teams, and enterprises to create, publish, and promote content; and Document Cloud, a unified cloud-based document services platform.
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#5 - Sunnova Energy International (NYSE:NOVA)
- Number of Downgrades
- 21 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.1
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 23 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $5.39 (932.8% Upside)
About Sunnova Energy International
Sunnova Energy International Inc engages in the provision of energy as a service in the United States. The company offers electricity, as well as offers operations and maintenance, monitoring, repairs and replacements, equipment upgrades, on-site power optimization, and solar energy system and energy storage system diagnostics services.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 19 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 23 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $320.70 (68.1% Upside)
About MongoDB
MongoDB, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides general purpose database platform worldwide. The company provides MongoDB Atlas, a hosted multi-cloud database-as-a-service solution; MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, a commercial database server for enterprise customers to run in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment; and Community Server, a free-to-download version of its database, which includes the functionality that developers need to get started with MongoDB.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 19 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.4
- Ratings Breakdown
- 14 Buy Ratings, 17 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $145.55 (39.2% Upside)
About Target
Target Corporation operates as a general merchandise retailer in the United States. The company offers apparel for women, men, boys, girls, toddlers, and infants and newborns, as well as jewelry, accessories, and shoes; and beauty and personal care, baby gear, cleaning, paper products, and pet supplies.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 19 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 9 Buy Ratings, 15 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $14.34 (163.9% Upside)
About Fluence Energy
Fluence Energy, Inc, through its subsidiaries, offers energy storage products and solution, services, and artificial intelligence enabled software-as-a-service products for renewables and storage applications in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company sells energy storage products with integrated hardware, software, and digital intelligence.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 18 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 16 Hold Ratings, 5 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $163.75 (0.3% Downside)
About Hershey
The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products and pantry items in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America Confectionery, North America Salty Snacks, and International. It offers chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products; gum and mint refreshment products, including mints, chewing gums, and bubble gums; protein bars; pantry items, such as baking ingredients, toppings, beverages, and sundae syrups; and snack items comprising spreads, bars, snack bites, mixes, popcorn, and pretzels.
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#10 - General Dynamics (NYSE:GD)
- Number of Downgrades
- 18 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 7 Buy Ratings, 13 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $297.71 (12.1% Upside)
About General Dynamics
General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment produces and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, charter, staffing, and fixed-base operator services.
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Recent Analyst Ratings
- Number of Downgrades
- 18 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 24 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $116.41 (108.7% Upside)
About Trade Desk
The Trade Desk, Inc operates as a technology company in the United States and internationally. The company offers a self-service cloud-based platform that allows buyers to plan, manage, optimize, and measure data-driven digital advertising campaigns across various ad formats and channels, including video, display, audio, digital-out-of-home, native, and social on various devices, such as computers, mobile devices, televisions, and streaming devices.
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#12 - Salesforce (NYSE:CRM)
- Number of Downgrades
- 17 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 3.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 36 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $362.74 (29.9% Upside)
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale.
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