Applied Materials (AMAT:NAS) and Ecolab (ECL: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
ECL Ecolab Inc 5 0 4 1 0 0 3.9000 4.0000 Outperform
STZ.B Constellation Brands Inc 4 0 2 1 0 0 4.0000 4.1250 Outperform
STZ Constellation Brands Inc 4 0 2 1 0 0 4.0000 4.1250 Outperform
MCK McKesson Corp 2 1 3 0 0 0 3.8333 4.0000 Outperform
BEN Franklin Resources Inc 0 0 3 1 0 0 2.7500 3.2500 Hold
CP Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd 11 4 3 0 0 0 4.4444 4.4737 Outperform
YELP Yelp Inc 3 0 5 0 2 0 3.2000 3.4000 Hold
BKE Buckle Inc 0 0 2 0 1 0 2.3333 3.0000 Underperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
CP Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd 11 4 3 0 0 0 4.4444 4.4737 Outperform
H Hydro One Ltd 1 3 2 0 0 0 3.8333 4.0000 Outperform
CEU Canadian Energy Services & Technology Corp 6 4 0 0 0 0 4.6000 4.7000 Buy
LB Laurentian Bank of Canada 0 1 4 0 1 0 2.8333 2.8750 Hold
LIF Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp 0 1 2 0 1 0 2.7500 3.2500 Hold
IAE Ithaca Energy Inc 0 0 4 0 3 0 2.1429 2.5000 Underperform
CMG Computer Modelling Group Ltd 1 0 3 0 3 0 2.4286 2.7143 Underperform
TSX Venture Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
ICG Integra Gold Corp 1 2 0 0 6 0 2.1111 2.8000 Underperform
ORE Orezone Gold Corp 0 3 2 0 0 0 3.6000 3.6667 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
YHOO Yahoo! Inc 2 0 4 0 0 0 3.6667 4.0000 Outperform
AMAT Applied Materials Inc 5 0 1 0 1 0 4.1429 4.2857 Outperform
ADSK Autodesk Inc 3 0 3 1 0 0 3.7143 3.8571 Outperform
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc 1 0 1 1 0 0 3.3333 3.7500 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.

AMAT:NAS Applied Materials

http://www.appliedmaterials.com
Applied Materials has 16700 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Applied Materials Inc provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, flat panel display, solar photovoltaic and related industries.

ECL:NYS Ecolab

http://www.ecolab.com
Ecolab has 47565 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Ecolab Inc develops and markets cleaning and sanitizing premium programs, products and services for the hospitality, foodservice, healthcare, industrial and energy markets.

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