Stock Analyst

From Stock Spy

Analysts are financial professionals who are typically employed by hedge funds, mutual funds or brokerage firms. Analysts often give recommendations on specific stocks within a sector they analyze. Analysts often give: Strong Buy, Buy, Hold, Sell recommendations. Some analysts use different terms that compare a stock to a the rest of the market or their specific sector: outperform, market perform, or underperform.

When an analyst upgrades or downgrades it can have a big impact on the price of a stock.

There are several factors that can have an impact on how much the price of the stock moves after analyst ratings changes:

• How widely known and respected the firm is which the analyst is from
• How big the the difference in price target is.

[Stock Spy] can plot analyst ratings changes directly on the stock chart. This makes it easy to understand why a stock price moved dramatically. It could have been a change to an analysts recommendations.