Qualcomm (QCOM:NAS) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS: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
RBS Royal Bank of Scotland Group (The) PLC 0 0 3 0 3 0 2.0000 2.1667 Underperform
WPC W.P. Carey Inc 0 0 2 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 Hold
XPO XPO Logistics Inc 5 0 0 1 0 0 4.5000 4.6667 Outperform
CLC Clarcor Inc 0 0 1 0 1 0 2.0000 2.3333 Underperform
SWN Southwestern Energy Co 1 0 6 0 0 0 3.2857 3.3333 Hold
OAS Oasis Petroleum Inc 2 0 5 0 1 0 3.2500 3.3750 Hold
TPX Tempur Sealy International Inc 0 0 1 0 1 0 2.0000 2.3333 Underperform
HBM Hudbay Minerals Inc 5 3 4 0 0 0 4.0833 4.1538 Outperform
IAG Iamgold Corp 4 1 7 0 2 0 3.3571 3.4286 Hold
DYN Dynegy Inc 1 0 2 0 2 0 2.6000 2.8000 Hold
NOA North American Energy Partners Inc 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.6667 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
LUN Lundin Mining Corp 6 4 1 0 0 0 4.4545 4.5000 Outperform
HBM Hudbay Minerals Inc 5 3 4 0 0 0 4.0833 4.1538 Outperform
IMG Iamgold Corp 4 1 7 0 2 0 3.3571 3.4286 Hold
TXG Torex Gold Resources Inc 2 3 1 0 0 0 4.1667 4.5000 Outperform
KXS Kinaxis Inc 5 4 1 0 0 0 4.4000 4.4444 Outperform
EIF Exchange Income Corp 4 2 3 0 0 0 4.1111 4.2222 Outperform
AIF Altus Group Ltd 4 1 1 0 1 0 4.0000 4.2857 Outperform
NSU Nevsun Resources Ltd 1 2 4 0 0 0 3.5714 3.7500 Outperform
KMP.UN Killam Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust 2 3 1 0 0 0 4.1667 4.2857 Outperform
CRH CRH Medical Corp 8 2 2 0 0 0 4.5000 4.5455 Outperform
TV Trevali Mining Corp 1 3 0 0 0 0 4.2500 4.4000 Outperform
TKO Taseko Mines Ltd 0 0 7 0 0 0 3.0000 3.1429 Hold
HGN Halogen Software Inc 0 0 1 0 2 0 1.6667 2.0000 Underperform
NOA North American Energy Partners Inc 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.6667 Outperform
CMMC Copper Mountain Mining Corp 1 2 2 0 0 0 3.8000 4.0000 Outperform
RC RDM Corp 0 0 1 0 1 0 2.0000 3.0000 Underperform
TSX Venture Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
APH Aphria Inc 1 2 0 0 0 0 4.3333 4.5000 Outperform
PGM Pure Gold Mining Inc 1 2 0 0 0 0 4.3333 4.5000 Outperform
EMC Emblem Corp 0 1 0 0 0 0 4.0000 4.5000 Outperform
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
NSU Nevsun Resources Ltd 1 2 4 0 0 0 3.5714 3.7500 Outperform
CRHM CRH Medical Corp 8 2 2 0 0 0 4.5000 4.5455 Outperform
TGB Taseko Mines Ltd 0 0 7 0 0 0 3.0000 3.1429 Hold
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
QCOM Qualcomm Inc 2 1 5 0 0 0 3.6250 3.7778 Outperform
NXPI NXP Semiconductors NV 2 0 2 0 0 0 4.0000 4.2000 Outperform
LKQ LKQ Corp 2 1 1 0 0 0 4.2500 4.5000 Outperform
MELI MercadoLibre Inc 0 0 0 1 0 0 2.0000 3.0000 Underperform
SPLK Splunk Inc 8 0 3 0 0 0 4.4545 4.6000 Outperform
UTHR United Therapeutics Corp 3 0 3 1 0 0 3.7143 3.8571 Outperform
IART Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corp 2 0 3 0 0 0 3.8000 4.2000 Outperform
ACOR Acorda Therapeutics Inc 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 4.0000 Outperform
PSTB Park Sterling Corp 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
XENT Intersect ENT Inc 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 5.0000 Outperform
AGEN Agenus Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 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.

QCOM:NAS Qualcomm

http://www.qualcomm.com
Qualcomm has 30500 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Qualcomm Inc develops digital communication technology called CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), & owns intellectual property applicable to products that implement any version of CDMA including patents, patent applications & trade secrets.

RBS:NYS Royal Bank of Scotland

http://www.rbs.com
Royal Bank of Scotland has 82500 employees and is headquartered in United Kingdom.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group (The) PLC is an international banking and financial services company. The Company through its subsidiaries provides banking products and services to personal, commercial and large corporate and institutional customers.

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