Mastercard (MA:NYS) and Kraft Heinz (KHC:NAS) 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
MA Mastercard Inc 6 0 3 0 0 0 4.3333 4.4444 Outperform
MMM 3M Co 2 0 3 1 0 0 3.5000 3.6667 Hold
BBL BHP Billiton PLC 0 0 4 1 0 0 2.8000 2.8333 Hold
DD E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co 4 0 2 1 0 0 4.0000 4.1429 Outperform
GIS General Mills Inc 1 0 4 1 1 0 2.8571 2.8750 Hold
BSX Boston Scientific Corp 4 0 4 0 0 0 4.0000 4.1111 Outperform
HSY The Hershey Co 0 0 5 0 1 0 2.6667 2.7143 Hold
CPB Campbell Soup Co 0 0 3 1 1 0 2.4000 2.5000 Underperform
SJM JM Smucker Co 0 0 3 0 0 0 3.0000 3.5000 Hold
MKC.V McCormick & Co Inc 0 0 4 0 1 0 2.6000 3.0000 Hold
MKC McCormick & Co Inc 0 0 4 0 1 0 2.6000 3.0000 Hold
FMC FMC Corp 1 0 3 0 0 0 3.5000 4.0000 Hold
DF Dean Foods Co 0 0 2 0 0 0 3.0000 3.6667 Hold
ACCO ACCO Brands Corp 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 5.0000 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
HSE Husky Energy Inc 2 0 6 0 1 0 3.2222 3.3333 Hold
ENF Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc 2 1 6 0 0 0 3.5556 3.7778 Outperform
CRH CRH Medical Corp 7 1 1 0 0 0 4.6667 4.7500 Buy
AUG Auryn Resources Inc 1 2 0 0 0 0 4.3333 4.5000 Outperform
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
CRHM CRH Medical Corp 7 1 1 0 0 0 4.6667 4.7500 Buy
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
KHC The Kraft Heinz Co 4 0 0 1 0 0 4.4000 4.5000 Outperform
CY Cypress Semiconductor Corp 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 4.5000 Outperform
PODD Insulet Corp 1 1 3 0 0 0 3.6000 3.8333 Outperform
CWST Casella Waste Systems Inc 0 0 2 0 0 0 3.0000 3.6667 Hold
GNVC Genvec 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.

MA:NYS Mastercard

http://www.mastercard.com
Mastercard has 11300 employees and is headquartered in United States.
MasterCard Inc is a technology company in the payments industry. The Company connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses, enabling them to use electronic forms of payment instead of cash and checks.

KHC:NAS Kraft Heinz

http://www.heinz.com
Kraft Heinz has 42000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
The Kraft Heinz Co is a consumer packaged food & beverage company. It manufactures & markets food & beverage products, including cheese, meats, refreshment beverages, packaged dinners, snack nuts, & other grocery products.

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