Costco Wholesale (COST:NAS) and JD.com (JD: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
BT BT Group PLC 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 4.6667 Outperform
KR The Kroger Co 3 0 4 0 0 0 3.8571 4.1429 Outperform
ZTS Zoetis Inc 4 0 0 1 0 0 4.4000 5.0000 Outperform
POT Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc 3 2 7 0 1 0 3.4615 3.5000 Hold
ALLY Ally Financial Inc 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.5000 5.0000 Outperform
IGT International Game Technology PLC 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
QHC Quorum Health Corp 0 0 1 0 1 0 2.0000 2.3333 Underperform
WAC Walter Investment Management Corp 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.0000 2.0000 Sell
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
IMO Imperial Oil Ltd 2 0 10 0 0 0 3.3333 3.3636 Hold
POT Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc 3 2 7 0 1 0 3.4615 3.5000 Hold
EFN Element Fleet Management Corp 4 3 3 0 0 0 4.1000 4.6000 Outperform
NGD New Gold Inc 2 1 6 0 1 0 3.3000 3.3750 Hold
DHX.A DHX Media Ltd 4 1 3 0 0 0 4.1250 4.2222 Outperform
DHX.B DHX Media Ltd 4 1 3 0 0 0 4.1250 4.2222 Outperform
ACQ AutoCanada Inc 1 1 3 0 1 0 3.1667 3.2000 Hold
AZ Arizona Mining Inc 2 4 0 0 0 0 4.3333 4.4000 Outperform
ZCL ZCL Composites Inc 0 1 2 0 0 0 3.3333 3.5000 Hold
LMP Lumenpulse Inc 3 2 3 0 0 0 4.0000 4.3750 Outperform
CHW Chesswood Group Ltd 1 1 2 0 0 0 3.7500 4.0000 Outperform
IBG IBI Group Inc 1 1 2 0 0 0 3.7500 4.0000 Outperform
XDC Xtreme Drilling Corp 4 1 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.8333 Outperform
TSX Venture Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
AT AcuityAds Holdings Inc 0 2 0 0 0 0 4.0000 4.3333 Outperform
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
IMO Imperial Oil Ltd 2 0 10 0 0 0 3.3333 3.3636 Hold
NGD New Gold Inc 2 1 6 0 1 0 3.3000 3.3750 Hold
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
COST Costco Wholesale Corp 6 0 2 1 0 0 4.2222 4.4444 Outperform
JD JD.com Inc 2 0 2 0 1 0 3.4000 3.5000 Hold
CASY Casey’s General Stores Inc 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 5.0000 Outperform
PNK Pinnacle Entertainment Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
LMNX Luminex Corp 1 0 0 0 2 0 2.3333 3.0000 Underperform
MYRG MYR Group Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 Hold
DHXM DHX Media Ltd 4 1 3 0 0 0 4.1250 4.2222 Outperform
LWAY Lifeway Foods Inc 0 1 0 0 0 0 4.0000 4.5000 Outperform
INSG Inseego Corp 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 Hold
IPAS iPass Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
VSTM Verastem 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.

COST:NAS Costco Wholesale

http://www.costco.com
Costco Wholesale has 218000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Costco Wholesale Corp and its subsidiaries operates membership warehouses. The Company offers its members low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and select private-label products in merchandise categories.

JD:NAS JD.com

http://www.jd.com
JD.com has 115811 employees and is headquartered in China.
JD.com Inc is an online direct sales company in China. The Company acquires products from suppliers and sells them directly to its customers through its website and mobile applications.

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