Weekly Ratings, Targets, Forecast Changes
Weekly Ratings, Targets, Forecast Changes Mar 26, 2018 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 March 19 to Friday March 23, 2018 Total Upgrades: 2 Total Downgrades: 6 Net Ratings Breakdown: Buy 43.88%; Hold 40.66%; Sell 15.46% At a time when geopolitical and macro concerns are weighing on general investor sentiment, stockbroking analysts in Australia are issuing more downgrades than upgrades for ASX-listed entities. For the week ending Friday, 23rd March 2018, FNArena only counted two upgrades and six downgrades. Both upgrades lifted to Buy (pfew) but then three of the downgrades sank to Sell. Brambles and Nufarm were the lucky receivers of a new Buy rating each post an investor update and financial results release respectively. This can only be interpreted as encouraging by local investors. On the flipside,FNArena Seek, Senex Energy and Synlait Milk all received one downgrade to Sell and valuation was a key factor in all three decisions. Two retailers that updated investors with financial performances feature on top of the week's table for positive amendments to price targets, with Premier Investments and Kathmandu followed by Nufarm, Nine Entertainment and Brambles.
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