Gilead Sciences (GILD:NAS) and Baidu (BIDU: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
PNC PNC Financial Services Group Inc 5 0 4 0 0 0 4.1111 3.8889 Outperform
RL Ralph Lauren Corp 4 0 2 1 1 0 3.6250 3.4286 Outperform
WUBA 58.com Inc 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 3.5000 Outperform
LEA Lear Corp 4 0 1 1 0 0 4.1667 4.0000 Outperform
TV Grupo Televisa SAB 2 1 1 0 0 0 4.2500 4.0000 Outperform
SNAP Snap Inc 4 0 6 0 2 0 3.3333 3.2500 Hold
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd 5 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.6000 Buy
PAC Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico SAB de CV 0 1 1 0 0 0 3.5000 3.0000 Hold
KEX Kirby Corp 2 0 2 0 0 0 4.0000 3.7500 Outperform
VNE Veoneer Inc 0 0 4 1 0 0 2.8000 2.6000 Hold
TEN Tenneco Inc 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 4.0000 Outperform
ELLI Ellie Mae Inc 3 0 0 0 1 0 4.0000 3.5000 Outperform
PDS Precision Drilling Corp 3 4 5 0 0 0 3.8333 3.7500 Outperform
AHT Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 3.6667 Buy
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
X TMX Group Ltd 3 1 2 0 0 0 4.1667 4.0000 Outperform
SSRM SSR Mining Inc 6 3 0 0 0 0 4.6667 4.5556 Buy
ARE Aecon Group Inc 7 3 1 0 0 0 4.5455 4.4000 Buy
HEXO HEXO Corp 2 3 0 0 0 0 4.4000 4.3333 Outperform
PD Precision Drilling Corp 3 4 5 0 0 0 3.8333 3.7500 Outperform
WJX Wajax Corp 1 2 2 0 0 0 3.8000 3.7500 Outperform
AKG Asanko Gold Inc 1 1 4 0 0 0 3.5000 3.4286 Hold
American Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
AKG Asanko Gold Inc 1 1 4 0 0 0 3.5000 3.4286 Hold
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
GILD Gilead Sciences Inc 4 1 3 0 0 0 4.1250 4.0000 Outperform
BIDU Baidu Inc 5 1 0 0 0 0 4.8333 4.5714 Buy
JD JD.com Inc 3 1 0 0 0 0 4.7500 4.4000 Buy
NTES NetEase Inc 4 1 0 0 0 0 4.8000 4.1667 Buy
CERN Cerner Corp 3 1 2 0 1 0 3.7143 3.5714 Outperform
CTRP Ctrip.com International Ltd 4 1 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.2857 Outperform
LKQ LKQ Corp 4 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.7500 Buy
LGND Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc 3 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.3333 Buy
RUSHB Rush Enterprises Inc 1 1 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.6667 Outperform
RUSHA Rush Enterprises Inc 1 1 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.6667 Outperform
SSRM SSR Mining Inc 6 3 0 0 0 0 4.6667 4.5556 Buy
EFSC Enterprise Financial Services Corp 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
VRRM Verra Mobility Corp 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 0.0000 Buy
AQST Aquestive Therapeutics 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.

GILD:NAS Gilead Sciences

http://www.gilead.com
Gilead Sciences has 10000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Gilead Sciences Inc is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes new medicines in areas of unmet medical need. Its products target a number of areas, such as HIV, liver diseases, cardiovascular and other diseases.

BIDU:NAS Baidu

http://www.ir.baidu.com
Baidu has 39343 employees and is headquartered in China.
Baidu Inc is one of the world’s leading Chinese-language Internet search engine. The company through its website primarily serves over 0.8 million advertisers which include small and medium-size businesses.

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