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.
- Number of Downgrades
- 31 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 13 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $115.89 (61.0% Upside)
About Five Below
Five Below, Inc operates as a specialty value retailer in the United States. The company offers range of accessories, which includes novelty socks, sunglasses, jewelry, scarves, gloves, hair accessories, athletic tops and bottoms, and t-shirts, as well as nail polish, lip gloss, fragrance, and branded cosmetics; and personalized living space products, such as lamps, posters, frames, fleece blankets, plush items, pillows, candles, incense, lighting, novelty décor, accent furniture, and related items, as well as provides storage options.
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#2 - SolarEdge Technologies (NASDAQ:SEDG)
- Number of Downgrades
- 26 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 4 Buy Ratings, 24 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $69.58 (152.4% Upside)
About SolarEdge Technologies
SolarEdge Technologies, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells direct current (DC) optimized inverter systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, rest of Europe, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Solar and Energy Storage.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 26 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 20 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $281.44 (23.1% Upside)
About Workday
Workday, Inc provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. Its applications help its customers to plan, execute, analyze, and extend to other applications and environments to manage their business and operations. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; enhance financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations.
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#4 - Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU)
- Number of Downgrades
- 25 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 23 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $416.26 (64.2% Upside)
About Lululemon Athletica
Lululemon Athletica Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, distributes, and retails athletic apparel, footwear, and accessories under the lululemon brand for women and men. It offers pants, shorts, tops, and jackets for healthy lifestyle, such as yoga, running, training, and other activities. It also provides fitness-inspired accessories.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 24 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 33 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $359.16 (40.2% Upside)
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc provides cybersecurity solutions in the United States and internationally. Its unified platform offers cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. The company offers corporate endpoint and cloud workload security, managed security, security and vulnerability management, IT operations management, identity protection, SIEM and log management, threat intelligence, data protection, security orchestration, automation and response and AI powered workflow automation, and securing generative AI workload services.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 23 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.4
- Ratings Breakdown
- 14 Buy Ratings, 14 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $96.30 (32.7% Upside)
About NIKE
NIKE, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and sells athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services worldwide. The company provides athletic and casual footwear, apparel, and accessories under the Jumpman trademark; and casual sneakers, apparel, and accessories under the Converse, Chuck Taylor, All Star, One Star, Star Chevron, and Jack Purcell trademarks.
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#7 - Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG)
- 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, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $62.88 (26.2% Upside)
About Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants. It sells food and beverages through offering burritos, burrito bowls, quesadillas, tacos, and salads. The company also provides delivery and related services its app and website. It has operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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#8 - Magna International (NYSE:MGA)
- Number of Downgrades
- 22 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 6 Buy Ratings, 12 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $54.00 (24.1% Upside)
About Magna International
Magna International Inc designs, engineers, and manufactures components, assemblies, systems, subsystems, and modules for original equipment manufacturers of vehicles and light trucks worldwide. It operates through four segments: Body Exteriors & Structures, Power & Vision, Seating Systems, and Complete Vehicles.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 22 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.4
- Ratings Breakdown
- 9 Buy Ratings, 16 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $91.71 (23.8% Upside)
About Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a roaster, marketer, and retailer of coffee worldwide. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Channel Development. Its stores offer coffee and tea beverages, roasted whole beans and ground coffees, single serve products, and ready-to-drink beverages; and various food products, such as pastries, breakfast sandwiches, and lunch items.
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#10 - Salesforce (NYSE:CRM)
- Number of Downgrades
- 21 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 25 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $292.79 (11.5% 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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- Number of Downgrades
- 21 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Moderate Buy
- Rating Score
- 2.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 13 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $497.61 (34.7% Upside)
About Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty, Inc operates as a specialty beauty retailer in the United States. The company offers branded and private label beauty products, including cosmetics, fragrance, haircare, skincare, bath and body products, professional hair products, and salon styling tools through its Ulta Beauty stores, shop-in-shops, Ulta.com website, and its mobile applications.
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- Number of Downgrades
- 19 (in the last 90 days)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 11 Buy Ratings, 19 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $69.90 (22.6% Upside)
About Fortinet
Fortinet, Inc provides cybersecurity and convergence of networking and security solutions worldwide. It offers secure networking solutions focus on the convergence of networking and security; network firewall solutions that consist of FortiGate data centers, hyperscale, and distributed firewalls, as well as encrypted applications; wireless LAN solutions; and secure connectivity solutions, including FortiSwitch secure ethernet switches, FortiAP wireless local area network access points, FortiExtender 5G connectivity gateways, and other products.
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