Home Depot (HD:NYS) and Lowe’s Companies (LOW:NYS) Upgraded

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

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

Why Do Companies Get Upgraded?

Companies can get upgraded for a number of reasons, but primarily due to improved future earnings potential due to new contracts, new products, cost savings or restructuring.

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
HD The Home Depot Inc 7 0 2 0 0 0 4.5556 4.3333 Buy
LOW Lowe’s Companies Inc 7 0 2 0 0 0 4.5556 4.3333 Buy
GD General Dynamics Corp 4 0 2 0 0 0 4.3333 4.2000 Outperform
HDB HDFC Bank Ltd 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 3.0000 Buy
PUK Prudential PLC 5 0 3 0 0 0 4.2500 4.0000 Outperform
RTN Raytheon Co 4 0 2 0 0 0 4.3333 4.2000 Outperform
NOC Northrop Grumman Corp 3 0 2 1 0 0 3.8333 3.6000 Outperform
CBS.A CBS Corp 11 0 3 0 0 0 4.5714 4.5385 Buy
CBS CBS Corp 11 0 3 0 0 0 4.5714 4.5385 Buy
TDG TransDigm Group Inc 4 1 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.4000 Outperform
RHT Red Hat Inc 5 1 0 0 0 0 4.8333 4.5000 Buy
KMX CarMax Inc 4 0 2 1 0 0 4.0000 3.7143 Outperform
MAC Macerich Co 1 1 5 0 0 0 3.4286 3.3333 Hold
FLR Fluor Corp 1 0 5 0 0 0 3.3333 3.0000 Hold
ST Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. 3 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.3333 Buy
PK Park Hotels & Resorts Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
CCJ Cameco Corp 3 3 2 0 0 0 4.1250 3.8750 Outperform
ITT ITT Corp 3 0 1 0 1 0 3.8000 3.6667 Outperform
TGI Triumph Group Inc 1 0 2 0 1 0 3.0000 2.3333 Hold
GDOT Green Dot Corp 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
CGI Celadon Group Inc 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 3.6667 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
CCO Cameco Corp 3 3 2 0 0 0 4.1250 3.8750 Outperform
MEG MEG Energy Corp 0 3 3 0 0 0 3.5000 3.4286 Hold
AGT AGT Food and Ingredients Inc 4 1 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.1667 Outperform
AFN Ag Growth International Inc 3 2 2 0 0 0 4.1429 3.8571 Outperform
TVE Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd 5 2 2 0 0 0 4.3333 4.2500 Outperform
SW Sierra Wireless Inc 2 1 6 0 1 0 3.3000 3.2727 Hold
SMU.UN Summit Industrial Income REIT 2 1 0 0 0 0 4.6667 4.2500 Buy
TSX Venture Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
TWM Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd 4 5 0 0 0 0 4.4444 4.4286 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
SWIR Sierra Wireless Inc 2 1 6 0 1 0 3.3000 3.2727 Hold
NSSC NAPCO Security Technologies Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 0.0000 Buy

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.

HD:NYS Home Depot

http://www.homedepot.com
Home Depot has 385000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
The Home Depot Inc is a home improvement retailer. Its stores sell an assortment of building materials, home improvement and lawn and garden products and provide a number of services.

LOW:NYS Lowe’s Companies

http://www.lowes.com
Lowe’s Companies has 270000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Lowe’s Companies Inc is a home improvement retailer. It serves home-owners, renters and commercial business customers.

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