Broadcom (AVGO:NAS) and Costco Wholesale (COST:NAS) 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
ECL Ecolab Inc 6 0 4 1 0 0 4.0000 4.1818 Outperform
BBY Best Buy Co Inc 0 0 5 1 2 0 2.3750 2.4444 Underperform
DGX Quest Diagnostics Inc 3 0 3 1 0 0 3.7143 3.8333 Outperform
KMX CarMax Inc 3 0 3 0 0 0 4.0000 4.1429 Outperform
AAP Advance Auto Parts Inc 5 1 3 0 0 0 4.2222 4.3000 Outperform
IT Gartner Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 5.0000 Outperform
KRC Kilroy Realty Corp 1 0 5 0 0 0 3.3333 3.4000 Hold
RHI Robert Half International Inc 1 0 2 0 2 0 2.6000 3.0000 Hold
SERV ServiceMaster Global Holdings Inc 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.0000 5.0000 Sell
BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
OAS Oasis Petroleum Inc 3 0 4 0 0 0 3.8571 4.0000 Outperform
ASGN On Assignment Inc 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 5.0000 Outperform
AUY Yamana Gold Inc 4 2 6 0 0 0 3.8333 3.9231 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
IFC Intact Financial Corp 4 3 2 0 0 0 4.2222 4.3750 Outperform
IAG Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc 2 0 6 0 1 0 3.2222 3.3333 Hold
TOY Spin Master Corp 3 3 2 0 0 0 4.1250 4.3750 Outperform
YRI Yamana Gold Inc 4 2 6 0 0 0 3.8333 3.9231 Outperform
CEE Centamin PLC 5 1 1 0 0 0 4.5714 4.6250 Buy
AIM Aimia Inc 0 1 4 0 3 0 2.3750 2.7500 Underperform
MSL Merus Labs International Inc 0 1 3 0 4 0 2.1250 2.8750 Underperform
CERV Cervus Equipment Corp 2 0 6 0 0 0 3.5000 3.6250 Hold
TNP TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 Hold
PFB PFB Corp 1 1 1 0 0 0 4.0000 4.3333 Outperform
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
TAT TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 4.0000 Hold
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
AVGO Broadcom Ltd 9 0 1 0 0 0 4.8000 4.8182 Buy
COST Costco Wholesale Corp 6 0 2 1 0 0 4.2222 4.3000 Outperform
INTU Intuit Inc 4 0 3 1 1 0 3.5556 3.7000 Outperform
INCY Incyte Corp 3 0 3 0 0 0 4.0000 4.2000 Outperform
DLTR Dollar Tree Inc 2 1 1 0 1 0 3.6000 3.8333 Outperform
CA CA Inc 1 0 4 0 2 0 2.7143 3.2857 Hold
QRVO Qorvo Inc 3 0 3 0 0 0 4.0000 4.1429 Outperform
MRVL Marvell Technology Group Ltd 1 0 3 1 0 0 3.2000 3.5000 Hold
FIVE Five Below Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 4.3333 Outperform
FTR Frontier Communications Corp 1 0 3 0 0 0 3.5000 3.6000 Hold
GARS Garrison Capital Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.0000 5.0000 Hold
MSLI Merus Labs International Inc 0 1 3 0 4 0 2.1250 2.8750 Underperform
UNXL Uni-Pixel 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.

AVGO:NAS Broadcom

http://www.broadcom.com
Broadcom has 15700 employees and is headquartered in Singapore.
Broadcom Ltd is engaged in designing, developing and supplying analog & digital semiconductor connectivity solutions. Its product portfolio serves four end markets wired infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage and industrial & other.

COST:NAS Costco Wholesale

http://www.costco.com
Costco Wholesale has 218000 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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