Weekly Ratings, Targets, Forecast Changes
Weekly Ratings, Targets, Forecast Changes Jun 24, 2019 By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArena Guide: The FNArena database tabulates the views of eight major Australian and international stock brokers: Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie, Morgan Stanley, Morgans, Ord Minnett and UBS. For the purpose of broker rating correlation, Outperform and Overweight ratings are grouped as Buy, Neutral is grouped with Hold and Underperform and Underweight are grouped as Sell to provide a Buy/Hold/Sell (B/H/S) ratio. Ratings, consensus target price and forecast earnings tables are published at the bottom of this report. Summary Period: Monday June 17 to Friday June 21, 2019 Total Upgrades: 7 Total Downgrades: 7 Net Ratings Breakdown: Buy 39.95%; Hold 43.75%; Sell 16.30% With the local share market continuing its uptrend throughout June, one would feel inclined to think stockbroking analysts are issuing more downgrades than upgrades for individual ASX-listed stocks, but not so. For the week ending Friday, 21st June 2019, FNArena counted seven upgrades and seven downgrades. AGL Energy was the only stock mentioned twice (two upgrades). Moreover, only two downgrades moved to Sell (with Coca-Cola Amatil and WiseTech Global the unlucky receivers). On the other hand, only three upgrades lifted to Buy. There was virtually no action in target price changes, except for a few negative adjustments FNArenawith BlueScope Steel, Caltex Australia and Viva Energy facing reductions during the week. A number of companies is enjoying increases to profit forecasts, including Nearmap, Pushpay Holdings and Alacer Gold, but the pendulum remains firmly biased towards more negative adjustments.
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