Posted on Sunday, June 26th, 2022 by MarketBeat Staff
Most people know that brokerage rankings are overstated because of pressure from publicly-traded companies. No investor relations person wants to see "hold" and "sell" ratings issued for their 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 analysts are consistently giving "hold" and "sell" ratings to stock, you know there's a serious problem. We've 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
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $88.00 (34.9% Downside)
GameStop Corp., a specialty retailer, provides games and entertainment products through its e-commerce properties and various stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. The company sells new and pre-owned gaming platforms; accessories, such as controllers, gaming headsets, virtual reality products, and memory cards; new and pre-owned gaming software; and in-game digital currency, digital downloadable content, and full-game downloads.
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#2 - AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC)
- Consensus Rating
- Reduce
- Rating Score
- 1.3
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $8.17 (34.5% Downside)
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the theatrical exhibition business. The company owns, operates, or has interests in theatres in the United States and Europe. As of March 1, 2022, it operated approximately 950 theatres and 10,600 screens. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.
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#3 - Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $66.62 (0.7% Upside)
Commerce Bancshares, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Commerce Bank that provides retail, mortgage banking, corporate, investment, trust, and asset management products and services to individuals and businesses in the United States. It operates through three segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Wealth.
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#4 - Credit Acceptance (NASDAQ:CACC)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.5
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $440.50 (12.8% Downside)
Credit Acceptance Corporation provides financing programs, and related products and services to independent and franchised automobile dealers in the United States. The company advances money to dealers in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loans; and buys the consumer loans from the dealers and keeps various amounts collected from the consumers.
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- Rating Score
- 1.4
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 9 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $140.69 (0.0% Downside)
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 brand names; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro, Clorox Healthcare, and Clorox Total 360 brand names; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand name; and vitamins, minerals and supplement products under the RenewLife, Natural Vitality, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brand names in the United States.
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#6 - Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 5 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $85.45 (8.0% Downside)
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 3.5 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 1,555 customers in parts of Manhattan.
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- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $94.83 (1.8% Downside)
Citrix Systems, Inc, an enterprise software company, provides workspace, app delivery and security, and professional services worldwide. The company offers workspace services, including Citrix Workspace; Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops; Collaborative Work Management; Citrix Content Collaboration, a cloud-based file sharing, digital transaction, and storage solution, which provides enterprise-class data services on various corporate and personal mobile devices; Citrix Analytics for Security that assesses the behavior of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and Citrix Workspace users and applies actions to protect sensitive corporate information; Citrix Analytics for Performance, which uses machine learning to quantify user experience; Citrix Secure Workspace Access that provides an end-to-end solution to implement Zero Trust principles; and Citrix Secure Internet Access, which provides a solution that protects direct internet access for branch and remote workers using unsanctioned apps.
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#8 - Avis Budget Group (NASDAQ:CAR)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $213.80 (30.5% Upside)
Avis Budget Group, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides car and truck rentals, car sharing, and ancillary products and services to businesses and consumers. It operates the Avis brand, that offers vehicle rental and other mobility solutions to the premium commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry; the Budget Truck brand, a local, and one-way truck and cargo van rental businesses with a fleet of approximately 20,000 vehicles, which are rented through a network of approximately 465 dealer-operated and 385 company-operated locations that serve the consumer and light commercial sectors in the continental United States; and the Zipcar brand, a car sharing network.
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#9 - Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $38.00 (27.2% Upside)
Vornado's portfolio is concentrated in the nation's key market New York City along with the premier asset in both Chicago and San Francisco. Vornado is also the real estate industry leader in sustainability policy. The company owns and manages over 23 million square feet of LEED certified buildings and received the Energy Star Partner of the Year Award, Sustained Excellence 2019.
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#10 - Telefónica (NYSE:TEF)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $4.46 (11.4% Downside)
Telefónica, SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services in Europe and Latin America. The company's mobile and related services and products comprise mobile voice, value added, mobile data and Internet, wholesale, corporate, roaming, fixed wireless, and trunking and paging services.
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- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $12.40 (13.1% Upside)
Viatris Inc operates as a healthcare company worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Developed Markets, Greater China, JANZ, and Emerging Markets. It offers prescription brand drugs, generic drugs, complex generic drugs, biosimilars, and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The company offers drugs in various therapeutic areas, including noncommunicable and infectious diseases; biosimilars in the areas of oncology, immunology, endocrinology, ophthalmology, and dermatology; and APIs for antibacterial, central nervous system agents, antihistamines/antiasthmatics, cardiovascular, antivirals, antidiabetics, antifungals, and proton pump inhibitor areas, as well as support services, such as diagnostic clinics, educational seminars, and digital tools to help patients better manage their health.
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#12 - Southern (NYSE:SO)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $72.88 (4.4% Upside)
The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. It operates through Gas Distribution Operations, Gas Pipeline Investments, Wholesale Gas Services, and Gas Marketing Services segments. The company also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; and distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as provides gas marketing services, wholesale gas services, and gas pipeline investments operations.
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#13 - Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 2.0
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $230.55 (22.7% Upside)
Illinois Tool Works Inc manufactures and sells industrial products and equipment worldwide. It operates through seven segments: Automotive OEM; Food Equipment; Test & Measurement and Electronics; Welding; Polymers & Fluids; Construction Products; and Specialty Products. The Automotive OEM segment offers plastic and metal components, fasteners, and assemblies for automobiles, light trucks, and other industrial uses.
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#14 - Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $60.88 (18.2% Upside)
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 and lead.
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#15 - Lennox International (NYSE:LII)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $266.50 (30.9% Upside)
Lennox International Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets a range of products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration markets in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Residential Heating & Cooling, Commercial Heating & Cooling, and Refrigeration.
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#16 - Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.6
- Ratings Breakdown
- 2 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 7 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $73.18 (2.0% Upside)
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, through its subsidiary, Arizona Public Service Company, provides retail and wholesale electric services primarily in the state of Arizona. The company engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity using coal, nuclear, gas, oil, and solar generating facilities.
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#17 - Landstar System (NASDAQ:LSTR)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.9
- Ratings Breakdown
- 0 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $166.00 (12.2% Upside)
Landstar System, Inc provides integrated transportation management solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company operates through two segments: Transportation Logistics, and Insurance. The Transportation Logistics segment offers a range of transportation services, including truckload and less-than-truckload transportation, rail intermodal, air cargo, ocean cargo, expedited ground and air delivery of time-critical freight, heavy-haul/specialized, U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico cross-border, intra-Mexico, intra-Canada, project cargo, and customs brokerage, as well as offers transportation services to other transportation companies, such as third party logistics, small package and less-than-truckload service providers.
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#18 - J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $132.27 (2.6% Upside)
The J. M. Smucker Company manufactures and markets branded food and beverage products worldwide. It operates in four segments: U.S. Retail Coffee, U.S. Retail Consumer Foods, U.S. Retail Pet Foods, and International and Away From Home. The company offers mainstream roast, ground, single serve, and premium coffee; peanut butter and specialty spreads; fruit spreads, shortening and oils, and frozen sandwiches; pet food and pet snacks; and foodservice hot beverage, foodservice portion control, and flour products, as well as dog and cat food, frozen handheld products, juices and beverages, and baking ingredient.
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#19 - Unilever (NYSE:UN)
- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.8
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- N/A
The Unilever Group, together with its subsidiaries, operates in the fast-moving consumer goods industry worldwide. It operates through three segments: Beauty & Personal Care, Foods & Refreshment, and Home Care. The Beauty & Personal Care segment offers skin care and hair care products, deodorants, and skin cleansing products under the Axe, Clear, Dove, Lifebuoy, Lux, Pond's, Rexona, Signal, Suave, Sunsilk, TRESemmé, and Vaseline brands.
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- Consensus Rating
- Hold
- Rating Score
- 1.7
- Ratings Breakdown
- 1 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 5 Sell Ratings.
- Consensus Price Target
- $164.00 (22.1% Upside)
3M Company operates as a diversified technology company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Safety and Industrial; Transportation and Electronics; Health Care; and Consumer. The Safety and Industrial segment offers industrial abrasives and finishing for metalworking applications; autobody repair solutions; closure systems for personal hygiene products, masking, and packaging materials; electrical products and materials for construction and maintenance, power distribution, and electrical original equipment manufacturers; structural adhesives and tapes; respiratory, hearing, eye, and fall protection solutions; and natural and color-coated mineral granules for shingles.
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