UnitedHealth Group (UNH:NYS) and Statoil (STO:NYS) Downgraded

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Downgraded Stocks on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Today we are looking at companies whose share price has been downgraded by at least one analyst in the last few days.

Why Do Companies Get Downgraded?

Companies can get downgraded for a number of reasons but primarily due to reduced future earnings potential due to loss of contracts, faultering product lines, increasing costs relative to revenue or financial risk.

In the list below you can see the number of analysts we have in the StockCalc database along with the number of buy-hold-sell on the company.

Today’s Data on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Below we have today’s data for companies listed on all of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, and TSX Venture Exchange.

New York Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc 7 0 0 1 0 0 4.6250 4.6667 Buy
STO Statoil ASA 1 0 1 1 1 0 2.7500 3.2500 Hold
VLO Valero Energy Corp 2 0 4 0 0 0 3.6667 4.0000 Outperform
MPC Marathon Petroleum Corp 3 0 2 0 0 0 4.2000 4.4000 Outperform
NBL Noble Energy Inc 4 0 4 0 1 0 3.6667 3.8889 Outperform
ATH Athene Holding Ltd 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 4.0000 Outperform
HII Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 4.3333 Outperform
OSK Oshkosh Corp 3 0 3 0 0 0 4.0000 4.3333 Outperform
SLCA US Silica Holdings Inc 1 0 0 0 2 0 2.3333 3.0000 Underperform
MOH Molina Healthcare Inc 0 0 2 0 0 0 3.0000 3.6667 Hold
FMSA Fairmount Santrol Holdings Inc 1 0 0 0 2 0 2.3333 3.0000 Underperform
AYR Aircastle Ltd 1 0 3 0 0 0 3.5000 3.6667 Hold
FLY Fly Leasing Ltd 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 5.0000 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
EMA Emera Inc 3 2 5 0 0 0 3.8000 3.8889 Outperform
CRR.UN Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust 3 0 5 0 0 0 3.7500 3.8750 Outperform
AX.UN Artis Real Estate Investment Trust 2 0 6 0 0 0 3.5000 3.7500 Hold
CLR Clearwater Seafoods Inc 2 1 1 0 0 0 4.2500 4.7500 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
ISRG Intuitive Surgical Inc 2 0 3 0 0 0 3.8000 4.2000 Outperform
HOLX Hologic Inc 4 0 3 0 0 0 4.1429 4.4286 Outperform
JJSF J&J Snack Foods Corp 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
UCBI United Community Banks Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
MHLD Maiden Holdings Ltd 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
BOBE Bob Evans Farms Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold

Let’s look at a few companies…

Lets look at a couple of the companies on this list to get a better understanding of them.

UNH:NYS UnitedHealth Group

http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com
UnitedHealth Group has 200000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
UnitedHealth Group Inc designs products, provides services and applies technologies that improve access to health and well-being services, simplify the health care experience and make health care more affordable.

STO:NYS Statoil

http://www.statoil.com
Statoil has 21600 employees and is headquartered in Norway.
Statoil ASA is an integrated oil and gas company. It explores, produces, transports, refines, and markets petroleum and petroleum-derived products. It has operations in Norway, rest of Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and South America.

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