Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B:NYS) and Costco Wholesale (COST:NAS) Upgraded

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Upgraded Stocks on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Today we are looking at companies whose share price has been upgraded by at least one analyst in the last few days.

Why Do Companies Get Upgraded?

Companies can get upgraded for a number of reasons, but primarily due to improved future earnings potential due to new contracts, new products, cost savings or restructuring.

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
BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0 1 0 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
BRK.A Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0 1 0 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
VALE Vale SA 2 0 2 1 1 0 3.1667 3.1429 Hold
MFG Mizuho Financial Group Inc 0 1 1 0 0 0 3.5000 3.0000 Hold
LH Laboratory Corp of America Holdings 2 1 2 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8333 Outperform
INGR Ingredion Inc 1 1 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.5000 Outperform
NYCB New York Community Bancorp Inc 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 3.5000 Outperform
FHN First Horizon National Corp 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 3.5000 Outperform
TCF TCF Financial Corp 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 3.5000 Outperform
SAM Boston Beer Co Inc 0 0 1 1 1 0 2.0000 1.6667 Underperform
CLGX CoreLogic Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.6667 Outperform
SXT Sensient Technologies Corp 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.0000 Outperform
APHA Aphria Inc 4 2 0 0 0 0 4.6667 4.6000 Buy
CRS Carpenter Technology Corp 2 1 0 0 0 0 4.6667 4.2500 Buy
OR Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd 6 7 1 0 0 0 4.3571 4.2143 Outperform
OMI Owens & Minor Inc 0 1 0 0 1 0 2.5000 2.0000 Underperform
BPI Bridgepoint Education Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.0000 Buy
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
APHA Aphria Inc 4 2 0 0 0 0 4.6667 4.6000 Buy
OR Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd 6 7 1 0 0 0 4.3571 4.2143 Outperform
HEXO HEXO Corp 5 4 0 0 0 0 4.5556 4.5000 Buy
LUG Lundin Gold Inc 2 4 1 0 0 0 4.1429 4.0000 Outperform
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
HEXO HEXO Corp 5 4 0 0 0 0 4.5556 4.5000 Buy
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
COST Costco Wholesale Corp 5 0 2 0 0 0 4.4286 4.2500 Outperform
ATVI Activision Blizzard Inc 6 1 2 0 0 0 4.4444 4.3750 Outperform
EA Electronic Arts Inc 7 1 0 0 0 0 4.8750 4.8571 Buy
AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc 4 0 4 0 1 0 3.6667 3.6000 Outperform
CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd 3 2 4 0 0 0 3.8889 3.8000 Outperform
EXPE Expedia Group Inc 7 1 2 0 0 0 4.5000 4.4444 Outperform
EXPD Expeditors International of Washington Inc 0 0 2 1 2 0 2.0000 1.7500 Underperform
TTWO Take-Two Interactive Software Inc 5 1 1 0 0 0 4.5714 4.5000 Buy
TRIP TripAdvisor Inc 1 0 5 0 1 0 3.0000 2.7143 Hold
PBCT People’s United Financial Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.6667 Outperform
LILAK Liberty Latin America Ltd 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.4000 Buy
LILA Liberty Latin America Ltd 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.4000 Buy
TCBI Texas Capital Bancshares Inc 2 0 3 0 0 0 3.8000 3.6667 Outperform
GRPN Groupon Inc 3 0 3 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8000 Outperform
FARO Faro Technologies Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 3.0000 Buy
VRCA Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 0.0000 Buy
LRAD LRAD Corp 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 0.0000 Buy
PDEX Pro-Dex Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 0.0000 Buy
AMTX Aemetis Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 0.0000 Buy

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.

BRK.B:NYS Berkshire Hathaway

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com
Berkshire Hathaway has 377000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc is engaged in the financial services domain. Its core activity includes provision of insurance services.

COST:NAS Costco Wholesale

http://www.costco.com
Costco Wholesale has 245000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Costco Wholesale Corp and its subsidiaries operate membership warehouses. The company offers its members low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and select private-label products in merchandise categories.

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