Manulife Financial (MFC:TSE) and Kimberly-Clark (KMB: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
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corp 1 0 6 0 0 0 3.2857 3.5714 Hold
MFC Manulife Financial Corp 5 3 4 0 0 0 4.0833 4.1538 Outperform
SLF Sun Life Financial Inc 5 2 5 0 0 0 4.0000 4.1538 Outperform
AES The AES Corp 1 0 3 0 1 0 3.0000 3.4000 Hold
WGL WGL Holdings Inc 0 0 1 0 2 0 1.6667 2.0000 Underperform
PDS Precision Drilling Corp 7 2 4 0 3 0 3.6250 3.6875 Outperform
HIFR InfraREIT Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
MFC Manulife Financial Corp 5 3 4 0 0 0 4.0833 4.1538 Outperform
SLF Sun Life Financial Inc 5 2 5 0 0 0 4.0000 4.1538 Outperform
SJ Stella-Jones Inc 1 0 5 0 0 0 3.3333 4.0000 Hold
PD Precision Drilling Corp 7 2 4 0 3 0 3.6250 3.6875 Outperform
MEG MEG Energy Corp 0 1 3 0 0 0 3.2500 3.5000 Hold
KDX Klondex Mines Ltd 2 1 6 0 0 0 3.5556 3.6000 Outperform
OSK Osisko Mining Inc 5 4 0 0 0 0 4.5556 4.6250 Buy
AGF.B AGF Management Ltd 0 0 4 0 2 0 2.3333 2.6667 Underperform
POM PolyMet Mining Corp 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 Hold
TSX Venture Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
CEB Ceiba Energy Services Inc 0 2 0 0 0 0 4.0000 4.5000 Outperform
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
KLDX Klondex Mines Ltd 2 1 6 0 0 0 3.5556 3.6000 Outperform
PLM PolyMet Mining Corp 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 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.

MFC:TSE Manulife Financial

http://www.manulife.com
Manulife Financial has 34000 employees and is headquartered in Canada.
Manulife Financial Corp, together with its subsidiaries provides individual life insurance and individual and group long-term care insurance services. Its business segments are Asia Division, Canadian Division, U.S. Division, and Corporate & Other.

KMB:NYS Kimberly-Clark

http://www.kimberly-clark.com
Kimberly-Clark has 43000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Kimberly-Clark Corp is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of a products made from natural or synthetic fibers using technologies in fibers, nonwovens and absorbency.

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