VMware (VMW:NYS) and Shire (SHPG: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
ITUB Itau Unibanco Holding SA 2 0 0 0 1 0 3.6667 4.0000 Outperform
VMW VMware Inc 4 0 3 1 0 0 3.8750 4.0000 Outperform
ORAN Orange SA 1 1 1 0 0 0 4.0000 4.2500 Outperform
TSN Tyson Foods Inc 1 0 3 0 1 0 3.0000 3.4000 Hold
CIT CIT Group Inc 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 4.0000 Outperform
PSXP Phillips 66 Partners LP 0 0 2 0 0 0 3.0000 3.6667 Hold
SFUN Fang Holdings Ltd 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 5.0000 Outperform
COT Cott Corp 5 1 3 0 0 0 4.2222 4.3750 Outperform
RFP Resolute Forest Products Inc 0 0 4 0 1 0 2.6000 3.0000 Hold
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
ATD.B Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc 5 5 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.5556 Outperform
ATD.A Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc 5 5 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.5556 Outperform
ALA AltaGas Ltd 1 2 8 0 1 0 3.1667 3.1818 Hold
BCB Cott Corp 5 1 3 0 0 0 4.2222 4.3750 Outperform
EDV Endeavour Mining Corp 6 2 0 0 0 0 4.7500 5.0000 Buy
PEGI Pattern Energy Group Inc 4 3 1 0 0 0 4.3750 5.0000 Outperform
ORL Orocobre Ltd 4 0 2 0 0 0 4.3333 4.5000 Outperform
RFP Resolute Forest Products Inc 0 0 4 0 1 0 2.6000 3.0000 Hold
IIP.UN InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust 3 4 1 0 0 0 4.2500 4.4286 Outperform
MERC.U Mercer International Inc 2 2 2 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
GSV Gold Standard Ventures Corp 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.6667 Outperform
PLI Prometic Life Sciences Inc 3 3 2 0 2 0 3.5000 3.9000 Hold
PRU Perseus Mining Ltd 4 0 1 0 0 0 4.6000 5.0000 Buy
SOT.UN Slate Office REIT 2 1 3 0 0 0 3.8333 4.0000 Outperform
LYD Lydian International Ltd 3 2 0 0 0 0 4.6000 5.0000 Buy
ESP Espial Group Inc 2 3 1 0 0 0 4.1667 4.3333 Outperform
TSX Venture Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
FCF Founders Advantage Capital Corp 1 3 0 0 0 0 4.2500 4.4000 Outperform
IFX Imaflex Inc 0 1 0 0 0 0 4.0000 4.5000 Outperform
DLS DealNet Capital Corp 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 3.7500 Outperform
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
GSV Gold Standard Ventures Corp 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.6667 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
SHPG Shire PLC 5 1 0 0 0 0 4.8333 5.0000 Buy
ALKS Alkermes PLC 1 0 3 0 0 0 3.5000 3.6667 Hold
MMSI Merit Medical Systems Inc 1 0 1 0 1 0 3.0000 3.6667 Hold
PEGI Pattern Energy Group Inc 4 3 1 0 0 0 4.3750 5.0000 Outperform
MERC Mercer International Inc 2 2 2 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
SRDX Surmodics Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
ZFGN Zafgen Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
AUTO AutoWeb 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.

VMW:NYS VMware

http://www.vmware.com
VMware has 21700 employees and is headquartered in United States.
VMWare Inc provides virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. It is engaged in the development and application of virtualization technologies with x86 server-based computing, separating application software from the underlying hardware.

SHPG:NAS Shire

http://www.shire.com
Shire has 23044 employees and is headquartered in Ireland.
Shire PLC is a biotechnology company focused mainly in the research, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of specialist medicines for patients with rare diseases and other select conditions.

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