Medtronic (MDT:NYS) and Abbott Laboratories (ABT:NYS) 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
MDT Medtronic PLC 5 1 1 0 0 0 4.5714 4.5000 Buy
ABT Abbott Laboratories 5 0 0 1 0 0 4.5000 4.4000 Outperform
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 3 3 3 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8889 Outperform
BSX Boston Scientific Corp 5 0 2 1 0 0 4.1250 4.0000 Outperform
ECL Ecolab Inc 6 0 4 0 0 0 4.2000 4.0909 Outperform
HUM Humana Inc 4 0 2 1 0 0 4.0000 3.8571 Outperform
BAX Baxter International Inc 3 0 2 0 0 0 4.2000 4.0000 Outperform
ZBH Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc 4 0 5 0 1 0 3.6000 3.4444 Outperform
RF Regions Financial Corp 2 0 6 0 0 0 3.5000 3.2857 Hold
HSY The Hershey Co 1 0 5 0 1 0 3.0000 2.7500 Hold
TFX Teleflex Inc 1 0 0 1 0 0 3.5000 2.0000 Hold
VAR Varian Medical Systems Inc 2 0 2 0 1 0 3.4000 3.0000 Hold
MAS Masco Corp 4 1 3 0 0 0 4.1250 4.0000 Outperform
PVH PVH Corp 5 0 2 0 0 0 4.4286 4.2500 Outperform
HRC Hill-Rom Holdings Inc 2 0 0 1 0 0 4.0000 3.5000 Outperform
COTY Coty Inc 2 0 4 0 0 0 3.6667 3.5000 Outperform
NFX Newfield Exploration Co 4 0 1 0 0 0 4.6000 4.3333 Buy
WLL Whiting Petroleum Corp 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.2000 Outperform
DEA Easterly Government Properties Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
GMRE Global Medical REIT Inc 4 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.5000 Buy
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 3 3 3 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8889 Outperform
EFN Element Fleet Management Corp 5 2 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.3750 Outperform
PBH Premium Brands Holdings Corp 5 4 1 0 0 0 4.4000 4.3000 Outperform
TCL.B Transcontinental Inc 3 2 3 0 0 0 4.0000 3.7500 Outperform
TCL.A Transcontinental Inc 3 2 3 0 0 0 4.0000 3.7500 Outperform
SCL Shawcor Ltd 3 2 1 0 1 0 3.8571 3.7143 Outperform
CFW Calfrac Well Services Ltd 5 4 2 0 0 0 4.2727 4.2500 Outperform
KEW Kew Media Group Inc 2 2 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.3333 Outperform
TSX Venture Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
AGB Atlantic Gold Corp 5 3 1 0 0 0 4.4444 4.3333 Outperform
TBRD Thunderbird Entertainment Inc 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 0.0000 Buy
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
QCOM Qualcomm Inc 4 1 4 0 0 0 4.0000 3.9000 Outperform
ILMN Illumina Inc 4 0 1 1 0 0 4.1667 4.1429 Outperform
ULTI The Ultimate Software Group Inc 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.2000 Outperform
SABR Sabre Corp 3 1 0 0 0 0 4.7500 4.0000 Buy
AZPN Aspen Technology Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
MASI Masimo Corp 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
PODD Insulet Corp 2 0 1 1 0 0 3.7500 3.3333 Outperform
BLKB Blackbaud Inc 1 0 2 0 0 0 3.6667 3.0000 Outperform
WTRH Waitr Holdings 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.

MDT:NYS Medtronic

http://www.medtronic.com
Medtronic has 86000 employees and is headquartered in Ireland.
Medtronic PLC is a medical technology company. It is primarily manufactures and sells device-based medical therapies. It operates in Cardiac and Vascular, Minimally Invasive Therapies, Restorative Therapies and Diabetes segments.

ABT:NYS Abbott Laboratories

http://www.abbott.com
Abbott Laboratories has 99000 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Abbott Laboratories is a health care company that manufactures medical devices, blood glucose monitoring kits, nutritional healthcare products, diagnostic products and equipment, and branded generic drugs.

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