Altria Group (MO:NYS) and Activision Blizzard (ATVI: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
MO Altria Group Inc 1 0 1 1 1 0 2.7500 3.2500 Hold
HNP Huaneng Power International Inc 1 0 0 1 0 0 3.5000 4.0000 Hold
GDDY GoDaddy Inc 4 0 0 0 1 0 4.2000 5.0000 Outperform
LPI Laredo Petroleum Inc 1 0 5 0 0 0 3.3333 3.4000 Hold
WLL Whiting Petroleum Corp 1 0 4 0 1 0 3.0000 3.3333 Hold
QEP QEP Resources Inc 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 4.0000 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
BYD.UN Boyd Group Income Fund 4 3 2 0 0 0 4.2222 4.4286 Outperform
TVE Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd 6 3 2 0 0 0 4.3636 4.4000 Outperform
FRC Canyon Services Group Inc 4 3 2 0 2 0 3.6364 4.4545 Outperform
IPO InPlay Oil Corp 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 5.0000 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
ATVI Activision Blizzard Inc 4 0 0 1 0 0 4.4000 4.5000 Outperform
MAR Marriott International Inc 4 0 3 1 0 0 3.8750 4.0000 Outperform
PDCE PDC Energy Inc 4 0 2 0 0 0 4.3333 4.6000 Outperform
PTIE Pain Therapeutics 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.

MO:NYS Altria Group

http://www.altria.com
Altria Group has 8300 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Altria Group Inc through its subsidiaries manufactures and sells cigarettes, other tobacco products, machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco. It also maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases.

ATVI:NAS Activision Blizzard

http://www.activisionblizzard.com
Activision Blizzard has 9600 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Activision Blizzard Inc is a developer and publisher of online, personal computer, video game console, handheld, mobile and tablet games. Its business segments are Activision Publishing, Inc. and Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

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