Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX:NAS) and AES (AES: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
AES The AES Corp 0 0 3 1 0 0 2.7500 3.0000 Hold
AGCO AGCO Corp 1 1 3 0 0 0 3.6000 3.7500 Outperform
LDL Lydall Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
NOA North American Construction Group Ltd 3 1 0 0 0 0 4.7500 5.0000 Buy
AAC AAC Holdings Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
IPL Inter Pipeline Ltd 3 3 3 0 1 0 3.7000 3.8571 Outperform
CAR.UN Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust 1 2 9 0 0 0 3.3333 3.4167 Hold
KEY Keyera Corp 5 6 3 0 0 0 4.1429 4.2857 Outperform
SJ Stella-Jones Inc 4 5 1 0 0 0 4.3000 4.3333 Outperform
SOT.UN Slate Office REIT 1 1 4 0 0 0 3.5000 3.8333 Hold
NOA North American Construction Group Ltd 3 1 0 0 0 0 4.7500 5.0000 Buy
BLU BELLUS Health Inc 0 1 0 0 0 0 4.0000 4.5000 Outperform
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 4 0 4 0 0 0 4.0000 4.2500 Outperform
SFM Sprouts Farmers Market Inc 4 0 3 0 0 0 4.1429 4.2857 Outperform
IRWD Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc 0 0 1 0 1 0 2.0000 3.0000 Underperform
GSKY GreenSky Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
EIGI Endurance International Group Holdings Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
AKRX Akorn Inc 0 0 3 0 0 0 3.0000 3.3333 Hold
FTR Frontier Communications Corp 0 0 2 0 1 0 2.3333 3.0000 Underperform
ONCS OncoSec Medical Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform

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.

VRTX:NAS Vertex Pharmaceuticals

http://www.vrtx.com
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has 2300 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc is engaged in the business of discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing small molecule drugs for patients with serious diseases in specialty markets. Its products include SYMDEKO, ORKAMBI, and KALYDECO.

AES:NYS AES

http://www.aes.com
AES has 21000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
The AES Corp is a power generation and utility company. It is engaged in providing affordable, sustainable energy through its diverse portfolio of thermal and renewable generation facilities as well as distribution businesses.

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